What is Coaching?

Coaching can:

Support self-development.

Help you to identify, set and achieve your goals.

Support you to navigate and create change.

Develop problem solving skills.

Provide new insight to help you understand your situation.

Encourages self-awareness and reflective skills.

You can book a FREE 15 minute no obligation Discovery Call with me to see if we are a good fit. We will chat through what you are looking for support with, my skills and experience and you can decide whether I am the right person to help you achieve your goals.

Coaching is a conversational tool where the client is helped to discover and unlock the answers and solutions themselves. The coach will create a dialogue that explores and delves into the challenges and issues. It is a productive conversation that can help you set goals and work toward your objectives. 

Coaching utilises a mix of listening, questioning, observation, and feedback; to create an environment that is insightful and facilitates learning and development for the client.

The focus and attention are directed towards the clients’ circumstances to help them gain a greater understanding and awareness of their barriers and solutions. Coaching can encourage new ways of thinking to help solve problems, achieve goals more effectively and produce better results.

The benefits from Coaching may include:

• Increased resilience, resourcefulness, and the ability to navigate change.
• Greater focus, purpose, prioritisation, and direction.
• Greater levels of motivation, personal engagement, and ownership.
• Accelerated learning, self-awareness, and knowledge.
• Increased performance and personal effectiveness

The benefits may apply to a range of circumstances including people management and self-management, personal and team performance, personal and professional relationships, organisational development, health, work/life balancing and finances.

A coach is not there to tell you what to do or how to do it

Coaching operates from the concept that the client is ultimately responsible for their journey and the outcomes they create. When we choose to take responsibility for something, it puts us in a position to have influence over it, and the power to affect the desired outcome. A coach aims to keep the power of choice and responsibility with the client.

The Coach’s role is to facilitate through effective questioning, that will help the client to take action, generate their own options and solutions.  A Coach will also help a client to gain clearer insight and understanding of a situation.  For example, if a client is not getting the results they want at work, the coach can support with developing new ideas or strategies that can lead to constructive action toward the desired results.

Coaching is not training

Coaching places the responsibility for learning on the individual. It encourages learning to continue after the sessions, such as working through agreed actions or undertaking self-development activities. Both the client and coach influence the content and direction of each session. The format of the coaching sessions are flexible and will align with the clients objectives.

Coaching is not psychotherapy or counselling.

Coaching is not therapy, though for some it can be an alternative to those who may have previously considered or received counselling to resolve a situation.

Milder forms of anxiety, crisis of confidence or self-doubt might be effectively supported by a qualified and experienced coach. This is because coaching promotes a greater self-awareness, and fuller appreciation of our own situations and circumstances.  Sometimes we know our own answers and we simply need coaching support to implement our own solutions.

Issues such as addiction and mental health issues (i.e., depression, anxiety and compulsive disorders), are best supported by someone that is therapeutically trained.

A coach will engage in active listening to understand how you are experiencing the world, what you are thinking and apply a genuine curiosity to discover the real you.  A coach will create focus around your situation with a high level of commitment and attention.  They will also feedback to you objectively and appropriately challenge your thought processes. 

Coaching is a specific form of support that can bring clarity and insight, firing you up to think more deeply and encourage you to move more proactively forward with your goals.

All qualified coaches agree to a code of ethics that covers and protects the privacy of clients. All coaching sessions are strictly confidential, and the Client Contract will provide further detail around this.

Where a third party has requested the coaching, e.g., a line manager who suggests coaching to address a particular performance issue, the coach will agree with you the best way to keep any stakeholders involved or updated in line with GDPR principles and best practice.

Coaching requires a commitment from the client to fully engage in the process and have an open mind as to the potential of coaching.  The benefits and success of coaching directly relate to the willingness of a client to be open, honest and actively engaged in the coaching conversations. 

Personal responsibility of the client will also include reliability and commitment to coaching times and appointments; appropriate note taking and a willingness to follow through on your chosen goals from each session.

It helps to consider your own objectives for coaching before meeting with the coach. It is helpful to decide how to increase the effectiveness of the sessions, by making some advance preparations. Asking yourself the following questions and making some notes may help. I will send you a list of questions to consider prior to the first session to get you thinking!

I offer sessions remotely to clients in the UK via video call (Google Meet) or by telephone. I offer face to face sessions* in North West Wales. Contact me to discuss your needs. *Additional travel costs may apply.

I offer flexible sessions that can fit around your personal and professional needs. We can discuss suitable days and timeslots when we book our sessions.

You can pay by PayPal via the Calendly booking link. Or I can provide my Bank details for you to pay by Bank Transfer if you prefer.

Payments for sessions must be cleared into my bank account at least 24 hours prior to the session taking place. If you are booking a block of sessions, we can discuss payment terms that work for you.

If you need to cancel your session, please give as much notice as possible. Cancellations with less than 24 hours notice may be charged at the full cost.