What is Coaching?

Coaching is a way of finding out about someone's individual talents, abilities and personal goals, and giving them the confidence and skills they need to be able to to achieve them. Coaching can help anybody, whether they are an athlete training for an event or a business trying to meet new challenges. In today's results driven world, it's becoming recognised that coaching is a key element of success.

Good coaching encourages the individual or group being coached to learn from and be challenged by their work. If you are a manager, it will help you to create the conditions for continuous development by helping your staff to define and achieve goals.

Coaching helps:

• build skills
• progress projects
• solve problems
• develop careers
• overcome conflict
• re-motivate staff
• establish higher levels of trust
• create a positive, solution-focused culture

Life coaching focusses on improving the quality of your life or your business by taking you from where you are now...and getting you to where you want to be.

Quite simply, it's about working out what you want from life, and giving you the motivation you need to go and get it.

Life coaching helps you to ask three questions:

1. What do I want to do with my life?
2. What is stopping me from doing it?
3. What am I going to do about it?

The questions may be simple, but the answers may not. Coaching will help you find the answers that are right for you. It's a bit like having a personal trainer for your career.

Life coaching can help if:

• You see others having success and want to have the same experiences
• You want to feel confident
• You want to take on a challenge or project but are too afraid
• You want more job satisfaction and want to progress in your career
• You want motivation and direction
• You want to be number one in your job
• You want to be an excellent communicator
• You want to raise your profile at work
• You want to be the best at what you do