Coaching is a designed alliance between you and your coach to help you reach your desired outcome.
It is …
A relationship that is entirely focused upon you.
A relationship with someone who has no agenda other than your growth and success.
A relationship that helps you break free of any limiting beliefs about yourself.
I will believe in you completely and I will know that you can succeed in your aims.
I will stretch you, challenge you, and sometimes confront you, but always from a supportive position of service. I will be warm to you, laugh with you and will travel with you as an equal partner in your own success journey.
I will be honest, open and non-judgemental.
I will help you to achieve all that you can be as long as you stay true to your own best interests.
My clients are all ready to create the goals they want in their life and it is my role to challenge you further than you would normally challenge yourself. My specific purpose is to get you to where you want to be faster than you would do on your own.
Everything that passes between us will stay confidential and I will always stand within the standards & ethics under which I have been trained and qualified.
Sometimes I will offer you an alternative view of what you are saying. I might hear a certain tone in your voice or I might sense a fear that you have not noticed. I will always tell you when this happens. I will not insist that you address it – Coaching is always about what you want. It is my job to help you to see what you want to see, not to make you face things that you are not ready to look at.
Often I will ask you to consider going further than you initially think that you are prepared to go. You are always in charge of what action steps you commit to between sessions. If I challenge you (and I almost certainly will) to do something extra at some point, you always have the following options:
- You can say “no”
- You can say “yes”
- You can negotiate the request up or down.
Be assured that I will be ready for our scheduled meetings, will be relaxed and ready to go without any of my own circumstances clouding my mind!
In working with your Coach you are making the following commitments to yourself:
To be open to new challenges and be prepared to stretch yourself to achieve them.
To be open and honest with yourself and me and trust that I will never judge you on anything you say.
To make the time necessary to get the most of your coaching – this includes turning up on time for all scheduled meetings, completing the session preparation sheets, and committing to follow through with the action steps that you choose to take between sessions.
To be true to yourself and your own principles and values (you will identify/clarify your values during the program).
To be prepared to share a laugh or two along the way and to let me know if laughing is the last thing you feel like doing on that particular day.
To let me know straight away if anything about our coaching relationship bothers you or is not working as well as it could.
To look after yourself well between coaching sessions. The bigger the challenge you are undertaking, the greater the degree of self-care that is needed to support your wellness and energy.
Self-management is a vital component of emotional intelligence. Evolve does not work with people who are continually prepared to work themselves into the ground at the expense of their health and well being.
Your coaching program is about building your awareness. It is only the beginning. Personal excellence, self-achievement and development is a lifelong process that only you can be committed to.
