Frequently Asked Questions

What Is Coaching?
Who Benefits From Coaching?
Is Coaching Right For Me?
What Can Coaching Do For Me?
How Is Coaching Different From Workplace Counseling?
How Is Coaching Different From Management Consulting?
How Is Coaching Different From Mentoring?
History Of Coaching

What Is Coaching?
Coaching is a special relationship between two people where the coach helps the coachee get very clear on their goals and then together, meeting in person or by telephone on a weekly basis, the coach helps the coachee to craft an action plan and then holds their hand while they take the action. It's like having a secret business partner who is dedicated to the coaching success but where the coachee gets to keep all the profits. [ top ]

Who Benefits From Coaching?
Any person can and should have a coach. This includes business owners and executives who want to: cope with change and benefit from it; grow their business; face challenges constructively; reorganize, or hire or fire key personnel; focus on their strengths while working on their weaknesses; have balance in their life; improve customer service; get out of the rat race; set goals, make plans, and take proper action; be focused and accountable; get rid of the energy drains in their life; develop leadership, negotiating, organizational, and time management skills; coach their associates; and reach peak performance. [ top ]

Is Coaching Right For Me?
Most Business Owners and Corporate Executives know their most valuable asset is time... and there not making it anymore. If you want to get more out of your professional and personal life then Professional Coaching is the key to your success. [ top ]

What Can Coaching Do For Me?
Professional Coaching will give you the skills necessary to regain control of your life so you can get more done in less time, which leads to a better quality of life. Professional Coaching will help you:

• Create a life-changing road map for success
• Set realistic goals
• Learn better time management skills
• Regain control of your business and personal life
• Achieve superior results
• Succeed Financially
• Exceed your Goals and Dreams

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How Is Coaching Different From Workplace Counseling?
Counseling looks for causes behind problems or performance deficits, whereas coaching emphasizes new competencies and new actions.

Counseling generally follows a remedial approach, emphasizing deficits and the problems of not meeting a set, required conduct or standard. Coaching emphasizes strengths and achievements.

Counseling focuses on exploring reactive problems and behaviors, whereas coaching is proactive and looks to recognize and avert problems before they arise. [ top ]

How Is Coaching Different From Management Consulting?
Both coaching and management consulting aim to support organizational change. Coaching can be conducted outside of the consulting relationship. Both solve problems, set goals, and design an action plan.

Consultants tend to be experts within a specific industry or business. The coach doesn't have to be expert in a specific industry or business.

Consultants' services are information-based, whereas coaching revolves around relationships. [ top ]

How Is Coaching Different From Mentoring?
Mentoring is a natural way of passing on knowledge, skills, and experiences to others by someone who is usually older and wiser with broad life experiences and specific expertise. Coaching is about inventing a future from the individual's own possibilities plus the coach's knowledge and experience.

Mentors convey and instill the standards, norms, and values of the profession/organization. Coaching is more about exploring and developing the individual's own values, vision and standards. [ top ]

History Of Coaching
Coaching has probably existed as long as people have inhabited the earth. For centuries, the world's athletes, painters and artists, even kings, rulers, and generals, have employed personal coaches to develop and enhance their performance. Coaching in sports is familiar to us all, and indeed business, executive and life skill coaching derive many principles from sports psychology.

In the 1960's, especially in the United States, the sports coaching model began to be adopted by the business world. During the last twenty years or so, learning and development have become critical features of businesses and organizations as they confront rapid changes in a global market. Coaching models based on the principles of psychology and education have evolved to meet the evolving needs of businesses and organizations worldwide. Today coaching for small business owners, corporations, and public institutions is proliferating at an extraordinary rate. [ top ]