About Coaching
· What is Life Coaching? Can a Coach help me? A Life Coach calls upon their coaching training and life experience to assist their clients to · develop a vision for their life, then · formulate practical steps to help create it. This sounds like simple process, and it is, but if it were easy you would already be living the life that you wanted to live. · How does a Coach help me develop a vision? Firstly a Coach will help you discover what it is you really want - your vision for your life. By the use of Coaching specific tools, some of which are outlined in this site, Coaches help clients to clarify their vision. Your life vision may be to run a multinational corporation, or, may be as simple as doing the job you want to do with the people in your life that make you laugh and bring you joy. Note it is not your Coaches vision but your vision. Your Coach does not have the answers - You have the answers. Your Coach has the questions. Just as a baby in the womb does not need to be conceived, but only to grow and be given birth to, your vision is already alive within you as a part of your values, dreams, desires and life experiences. All it needs is to be developed and delivered. At Paradigms Ltd® we believe that everyone's life has a vision and a purpose. However, if you have dirty glasses you will not be able to see your vision. Your Coach will help you clean your glasses so you can see what it is you want from your life. · How does my Coach help me clarify my vision? Your Coach will use visioning tools that will help you see your vision clearly, but will also engage you in The Coaching Conversation®. The Coaching Conversation®, part of the Strategic Coaching Model®, embodies all of the usual elements of exceptional conversation - establishing rapport, giving undivided attention, listening actively, reflecting back and showing non-judgemental support - but adds to this profound listening and powerful questioning skills that take communication to a deep and profound level. By engaging with your Coach in The Coaching Conversation® you together discover new and unique possibilities - new paradigms for positive life action. Participating in The Coaching Conversation® for the first time is a unique and often profound experience for clients. The focus is solely on you and your wants, desires, needs, dreams and sometimes your disappointments and failures. At what other time in life does someone devote their whole time and attention on you? Coaching achieves profound life change however, it is not therapy or counselling and it is important to be aware of the differences. · What Coaching is not ... Coaching is not counselling or therapy, which are excellent interventions for those that require them. Coaching is not concerned with going over your past, although it acknowledges that past experience can influence current behaviour. Coaching is not training, consulting or teaching. Someone under training is being taught by an "expert" who knows more about the given subject than they do. Your Coach recognises that you are the expert on your life. No-one knows more about your life than you. Other ways that Coaching differs is that: · the Coach has no fixed agenda - Coaching is "client driven" at all times, and · the end result of Coaching is "positive action" moving you forward in life. · Coaching is not someone telling you how to live your life. Only you know how you should live your life. No one knows more about you than you. You set the agenda and the pace. You are in control at all times. Coaching is a profound tool that will reveal your potential because your potential is what drives the process. · What is the Coaches role? Your Coach is someone who is in your corner at all times, and who believes in you. Through keen observation, training and experience, and by means of The Coaching Conversation® your Coach will help you reveal your inner potential and then support you as you build on this to create the life you want. Coach-speak talks about a "designed alliance" between coach and client - however, you could consider your coach a co-driver who sits beside you with the lifemap and destination you have chosen and who then encourages and supports you on your journey toward the life you want to live. · Free Coaching tool Would you like to know if there are any areas in your life that could benefit from the coaching experience? The Life Map tool is a great way to get a snapshot of "where you're at" and to discover what is currently going on in your life. The Life Map · Get a blank sheet of paper · At the top write a heading "Areas of my Life." List at least 6 areas to your life - eg. Relationship, Work, Family, Health, Self-space, Exercise, Personal Development, etc. · Draw a large circle · Divide the circle into segments - like a cake - where each piece represents an area of your life as it is now. The bigger the piece the more important it is. · When you have settled on the relative sizes that each piece should be Label them - as Health, Self-space, Personal Development, etc. · Finally assign a number from 1 to 10 next to each piece. Write 1 if you are unsatisfied in this area and up to 10 if you are totally satisfied next to each piece. · Check out what you have come up with. Any surprises? Did you allow for any space for You? · Try drawing a second Life Map the way you would like things to be. Are there any differences with the first Map and how they are now? The Life Map helps you get an idea of what is going on in your life and how much space each area is taking up. It may also reveal which areas are out of balance. Your Coach can help take you forward in those areas of life that scored low or where you feel you would like to increase your scores. General Life Checklist Get a blank sheet of paper and write down the following headings: Health: Diet Exercise Relaxation Relationships: Partner Romance Children Parents Family relations Friends Social environment Work: Career Boss / Staff Colleagues Industry Working hours Holidays Financial: Investments Savings Mortgage Rewards Spiritual: Creative Outlets Life growth Hobbies Fun Now score yourself from 1-10 in each area. Does anything stand out? Is there anything you would like to take forward? · Contacts Would you like to discover more about how coaching can help move you toward a happier, more fulfilled and balanced life? Please feel free to … call us on 09-377 7732 to discuss how coaching may be able to take you forward in life … or, email us with any questions or comments info@paradigms.co.nz … or write to us at Paradigms Ltd, P O Box 78-393, Grey Lynn, Auckland 1002. · Free eZine Would you like to receive our free eZine - our newsletter by email - which is free and full of coaching tips and special offers? Just click here. · Free tools Our Free Tools page is packed with free coaching tools that show you how coaching can reveal new possibilities for living. To visit our Free Tools page click here. · Related topics Would you like to know more about the Coaching procedure and what happens next? Please visit the Being Coached page, or click here. Who is your most important relationship with? What Self-esteem is ... Creating Wonderful Relationships What is Career "success"? Would you like to find a way through the obstacles?   |
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