My own coaching journey: A fellow organizer shared information about organizational coaching with me several years ago. As I learned more about organizational coaching, I realized that I already used enhanced communication, coaching skills and strategies with my clients and I decided that I wanted to learn more.
A great perk of this personally and professionally rewarding path has been receiving coaching myself from my instructors and fellow students. What do I love most about being coached? Coaching:
- Provides an clearly defined appointment in an otherwise busy life to focus on a challenge or opportunity, and the learning and next steps around it;
- Allows for the sharing of and gaining new perspective with a trusted coach;
- Offers a verbal processor like me, who benefits from saying things out loud to process ideas, a safe place to explore thoughts and ideas; and
- Looks at ideas through the lens of Opportunity and not just the lens of Challenge.
Most of my coaching experiences, as both coach and client, have been virtual, conducted via telephone or Skype. Virtual coaching is a great option for busy professionals who would like the benefits of organizational coaching with a flexible schedule and no travel time! Learn how to work smarter, not harder and to make the most of the hours that you have.
What is Coaching? How Can It Help Me?
Coaching is:
• A process
• A conversation
• An opportunity
• All about you, and all yours.
My role as a coach is to give you the space, opportunity and tools to help you find and answer the right questions. ]You are awesome and capable, and you already have your answers inside. It is up to us to find them together and then act on them.
The agenda for the process is YOUR agenda, but as an organizational coach, I can share the framework to help you make progress on your agenda.
We can coach together in-person or virtually, as part of a hands-on organizing session or independently as a stand-alone coaching session.
We can work together on:
• Time Management Strategies
• Organizational Goals and Action Plans
• Looking for Motivation beyond Procrastination
• Strategic Planning
• Goal Setting and Accountability
• Asking specific questions to raise current job performance or reach even higher heights.
Coaching is not therapy. Coaching asks many questions, but it doesn’t ask why. As in, “Why am I the way that I am?”
Instead, Coaching asks ‘What?’
• Given who we are today, What are we going to do today?
• What are we doing to take action?
• What are my goals? Are they reasonable?
• What do I need to DO to reach my goals? How will I act, or act differently?
Coaching is finally a conversation all about you. We discuss, challenge, motivate, educate, act and evaluate, though not always in that order!
I am a graduate of the Coach Approach of Organizers. Courses completed include:
- Coaching Essentials
- Strength Based Coaching
- Best Practices for Client Enrollment
- Deepen Client Awareness
- Brain Based Coaching
- Life and ADHD Coaching
- Coaching Skills Labs
- Organizer Coach Integration
- Body Based Coaching
- ADHD Coaching Competency
- Independent Project, Real Life Case Studies: How Coaching Helps Clients Who Have Behaviors Consistent with ADD