Coaching has given me a thorough and systematic exploration of the steps and prerequisites needed to set and achieve my objectives, and an achievable, measurable and documented plan towards their achievement.
Ray L, IT Manager, Brisbane
The coaching sessions opened my eyes to influences over the problem that
I had not considered, noticed, or acknowledged in previous attempts to solve it.
Karen T, Supervising Scientist
Coaching has enabled me to think much more positively about things and made me realise that my goals can be achieved and that each small step is very important part of that journey.
LC Bradford on Avon
What surprised me was that with June’s encouragement I was organising my
own thoughts logically and coming up with the solutions and plans.
S Devine, Nurse Manager
Thank you for all your help and support these last few months. I’ve gone
from a state of despair to a positive outlook for the future
BS, London
ABOUT COACHING
What is Personal Coaching?
Personal coaching is based on a professional one to one relationship between you and your coach that helps you to:
- Identify precisely the goals you need to reach if you are to achieve success in your career, business or other areas of your life.
- Design a plan that will help you reach your goals faster than you might by yourself
- Overcome the obstructions that you will inevitably encounter along the way
- Maintain your enthusiasm until you reach your goals
Coaching focuses on you, on what you want to achieve, the changes to your life that you want to make.
Coaching gives you the confidence to set challenging goals and the tools and techniques you will need to achieve them.
How does Executive Coaching differ from Personal Coaching?
In principle, hardly at all. However, Executive coaching invariably focuses on work or career related issues and is often funded by the employer rather than the person being coached. Personal coaching may also concentrate on the above issues but may also be focussed on lifestyle and relationship issues.
Executive Coaching also covers coaching of small businesses where the client is the proprietor and the emphasis is on identifying and clarifying goals and setting and managing business plans.
The only other significant difference is the wider range of tools that may be used during Executive Coaching both to complete a preliminary assessment and to monitor progress throughout the period of coaching.
Who hires a Pathfinder Coach
Our clients range from solicitors and small business owners, senior managers in large organisations and mothers wanting to re-enter the workforce. In fact anybody with the desire to succeed can benefit from coaching.
Our clients are invariably people who are not satisfied with the status quo. They want more success from their career, or their business or they want a change in direction or improvement in their work/life balance
Whatever your goal coaching will improve your chances of success.
What can I expect from a Coaching Session?
Your coach will use a combination of observation, questioning, listening and feedback to create a conversation rich in insight and learning. Through this process you will develop a greater awareness and appreciation of your potential. You will create new ways to resolve issues, produce better results and generally achieve your goals more easily.
Looking at your issues from all the angles will clarify your goals and shed light on the reasons why you may not be achieving success as fast as you would like.
Coaching will help identify a number of steps, each of which will advance you towards your goal. You will have a plan detailing how and when you are going to complete the steps and a strategy for overcoming any potential obstacles that arise in your path.
How Can I tell if Coaching is for me?
Coaching is for you if you are willing to invest the time and energy to make the changes you need to make.
Coaching is for you if you are not satisfied with aspects of your life or career and believe that things can be better.
Coaching is for you if you feel you need focus or help in establishing the direction for you.
Where will Coaching take place?
Coaching can be face to face or over the telephone, which makes it very flexible. A session can be arranged at any time that suits you and your coach. The only requirement is that, if the session is by telephone, you should be somewhere where you can guarantee to be undisturbed for an hour. We need to step off the world for a while and focus all of our attention on you.
If you prefer a face to face session this can be arranged with your coach at an agreed location in the Bath/Somerset/Wiltshire area.
We are the mapmakers of our lives.
- Richard J Leider