What is a ‘Life Coach’?

An independent, objective listener who asks questions to raise your level of personal

awareness and help you reach greater clarity regarding situations in both your work and

personal life. This provides the motivation for you to follow through with what feels best for

you until you get the results you want. A coach will challenge, stimulate and support you to

make the best of yourself and achieve maximum success.

Who chooses coaching?

Anyone who recognizes a need to make a change or to do something better or different and is

prepared to take action to close the gap between where they are now and where they want to

be. These may be private individuals, entrepreneurs, business owners or corporate managers.

When might I need a coach?

When life seems out of balance or you need to clarify your values

When faced with a difficult choice

When you realise you aren’t being as successful as you might be

When you realise you aren’t spending time on your main priorities

Some benefits of personal coaching

Identifies and focuses on your strengths so that you can develop to your full potential.

Provides a confidential and independent ‘sounding board’ and minimizes stress by removing

the feeling of ‘being on your own’.

How does it work?

Coaching can take place face-to-face or over the telephone. You can arrange a time for the

session with your Life Coach and either turn up at the agreed time or ring them at that time.

Sessions last approx. 45 minutes. You decide how often you want sessions usually weekly or

fortnightly, and how many weeks or months you want the coaching to continue. The coaching

process is not about sorting out past problems; it is about how to move forward to get the best

results for you now in the short and long terms.

The issues you choose are entirely up to you.

The solutions you decide to implement are entirely your choice.

You might want to start with a specific objective that you want to achieve in your work,

career or personal life.

You might want to start with the aim of getting more balance between competing priorities

for your time and energy.

Where you start and where you go on to are up to you.

You and your coach

Your contact with your coach is entirely under your control.

You maintain contact only as long as you think it is giving you real value.

You are the expert in your life; you know it best.

Your coach is the expert in the process of helping you sort out the goals that are really

important and the steps you need to realise these goals.

The next step

If you think that coaching might be for you then jot down some ways in which it could help

you and the issues you might like to improve on, whether business, career or personal.