WHAT ARE COACHING AND MENTORING ?

Both coaching and mentoring are processes that enable both individual and corporate clients to achieve their full potential:-

•  Facilitate the exploration of needs, motivations, desires, skills and thought processes to assist the individual in making real, lasting change.

• Use questioning techniques to facilitate client's own thought processes in order to identify solutions and actions rather than takes a wholly directive approach

• Support the client in setting appropriate goals and methods of assessing progress in relation to these goals

• Observe, listen and ask questions to understand the client's situation

• Creatively apply tools and techniques which may include one-to-one training, facilitating, counselling and networking.

• Encourage a commitment to action and the development of lasting personal growth and change.

• Maintain unconditional positive regard for the client, which means that the coach is at all times supportive and non-judgemental of the client, their views, lifestyle and aspirations.

• Ensure that clients develop personal competencies and do not develop unhealthy dependencies on the coaching or mentoring relationship.

• Evaluate the outcomes of the process, using objective measures wherever possible to ensure the relationship is successful and the client is achieving their personal goals.

• Encourage clients to continually improve competencies and to develop new developmental alliances where necessary to achieve their goals.

• Work within their area of personal competence.

• Possess qualifications and experience in the areas that skills-transfer coaching is offered.

• Manage the relationship to ensure the client receives the appropriate level of service and that programmes are neither too short, nor too long.

 What is Life Coaching?  
Life Coaching is a new profession, based on sports coaching. Life Coaches, or Personal Coaches, have been around for a long time initially being the preserve of the rich and famous and now available to everyone.
Life coaching is an holistic process that focuses on where you are now, in all aspects of your life in relation to where you identify you would like to be in the future and how you believe you can achieve your desired goal or outcome. Life coaching helps you to help yourself.
Coaching is neither therapy nor counselling.  The coach helps you to gain a better understanding of your concerns, then helps you to get to the next level in your personal growth and development so that your concerns will cease to exist. Life coaching requires your total commitment to change and take responsibility to act.

Coaching focused on lifestyle change

Coaching is a team effort relying upon the development of a strong relationship between the coach and yourself, working together to find out what you really want, and determining your purpose in life, that which is driving you but is outside of your conscious awareness.
Change requires you to set yourself goals that are aligned to and supportive of you reaching your goals. Then together you and your coach can develop strategies to support you to deliver your goals and enabling you to get what you really want out of life.
Coaching can help create clarity of purpose, set realistic goals and develop useful strategies for achieving your desired future lifestyle. Coaching helps you move effortlessly to where you want it to go, finding ways to work around obstacles and break down barriers to future success.

Take control of your Life !