What is Coaching?
This is a legitimate question, and in reality, the best way to answer it is to experience coaching first-hand. If you'd like to do so, please contact me for a sample session.
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Away from first-hand experience, a metaphor may be helpful. Coaching is like taking a taxi. You choose the destination, but the driver knows the best route to get you there.
Equally confusing is the terminology – we have professional coaches, life coaches, executive coaches, business coaches, and the list goes on. I am an Executive Coach but that does not mean that I only coach C-Suite Executives. Far from it! Executive Coaches work with individuals who are in employment, at any level of seniority in a corporate environment or otherwise, who want coaching primarily on their career. My passion is working with finance professionals, from those targeting their first management role up to experienced and senior leaders. If this isn’t you, but you like my profile, please know that I am motivated to work with anyone who wants to make the corporate world work for them, on their terms.
Coaching Explained

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What Coaching Is
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Coaching is a relationship, built on trust, that is designed solely to serve the client’s agenda
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Coaching is an investment in yourself
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Coaching is a forum to explore your values, your deepest desires, your dreams, your purpose, your gut instinct, your limiting beliefs, your choices, your emotions and so much more
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What Coaching Is Not
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Coaching is not consulting, mentoring or therapy
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Coaching is not giving advice or problem-solving
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What Do Coaches Do?
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View their client as a person, not a problem to solve
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Help clients reach awareness about what they care about and what they want
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Empower clients to take meaningful action towards these things
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Hold clients accountable for doing what they say they are going to do, and being who they say they’re going to be
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Provide opportunities for learning and self-discovery, without judgement