Why Have a Coach?
Personal Life Coaching
What are the specific services of coaching?
Coaching is the art of asking powerful, thought-provoking, and results-driven questions that draw upon your inner wisdom. Its basic premise is that you as the client are by nature creative, resourceful, and whole and that you have all the “answers” to life’s questions, issues, and concerns within you.
People who come for coaching are looking for more direction, balance, joy, authenticity, or fulfillment in their lives. They want better results than they have been able to achieve on their own. They are in some way ready to “show up” in their lives in a BIGGER way! This exercise will assist you in exploring whether you are ready for the experience of coaching.
- Do you feel you’re living below your potential with untapped talents you’d like to explore?
- Is your most valued relationship drifting off course?
- Are you experiencing significant drains on your time and energy, as though there’s never enough time for you?
- Do you feel derailed by a loss in your life (job, relationship, death) and like you don’t know how to get your life back on track?
- Do you wish you could speak truthfully, without concern for hurting someone’s feelings?
- Are you getting the message from yourself or others that you need to make some major changes in your life?
- Is your life filled with “clutter,” both physically and mentally, and you don’t know where to begin to eliminate it?
- Are you a parent who longs to spend more quality time with your children or to be a better parent when you’re with them?
- Do you feel like life is passing you by, as though something is holding you back from living the life you really want?
- Have you found that you’re at your best when being coached or mentored by a key person whom you respect and with whom you feel strongly connected?
If you answered “yes” to several of the above questions, you now have a sense of your own readiness for coaching, as well as “what’s in it for you” and how you will personally benefit from coaching.
“Think of it this way: your coach not only turns up your personal ‘awareness light’, one that your fears may have turned down low—he or she makes it their job to illuminate what you are not seeing in yourself.” - Rich Fettke, coach
Personal Life Coaching Rates
- Initial Intake Session (two-three hours) after your completion and my review of your intake coaching packet: $300.00
- One Month of Coaching (includes two one-hour sessions, email consultations as needed, and review of preparation and feedback forms sent prior to and after the scheduled sessions): $300.00*
*Payment is made in advance of the first scheduled session each month.
Personal Coaching Package Discounts
After the first month of coaching, you may elect to pay upfront for 3- and 6- month coaching packages:
- $800.00 for 3 months (saves $100.00)
- $1500.00 for 6 months (saves $300.00)
- If you arrange for a friend to sign up for coaching at the same time as your coaching begins, the monthly rate for each person is $250.00 (discount of $50.00 per person)
- For each client you refer who remains in coaching for at least three months, you will receive two one-hour coaching sessions at no charge.
What is Corporate Coaching?
Corporate coaching focuses on the development of human potential. It is an intensive, often short-term process that addresses behaviors and issues that are impeding management/team/employee effectiveness. My corporate coaching assists corporations in building on Stephen Covey’s contention that “fundamental to putting first things first in our lives is leadership before management,” ensuring that its individuals “do the right things” rather than “do things right.” Management works within the system; effective leadership works on the system. Corporations, their teams/employees, and I, as their corporate coach, can work together to realize extraordinary results. These are obtained through the creation of a plan with specific action steps and goals and the motivation to achieve these goals. I can work with your organization and its management to:
- Clarify their vision and goals, ensuring they are in sync with the corporate values and mission
- Cultivate and sustain positive and collaborative interpersonal relationships
- Promote focused performance discussions
- Resolve conflicts that interfere with work performance
- Enhance management styles and techniques
- Optimize the team-building process
- Respond optimally to change
- Improve recruitment efforts and workforce retention
- Set and achieve higher goals
- Facilitate enhanced decision making
- Replace poor work habits with success-oriented habits
- View obstacles as opportunities to learn and grow
- Develop new skills and become savvier in their roles
- Support staff development, job transitions, and early retirement options
Is corporate/executive/business coaching for you?
“A coach is someone who tells you what you don’t want to hear, who has you see what you don’t want to see, so you can be who you have always known you could be.” - Tom Landry
The following exercise is designed to assist you in exploring your readiness for the experience of corporate coaching, also commonly referred to as executive or business coaching.
- Do you feel blocked, like you’re in a rut, disillusioned, or out of balance?
- Are you accustomed to being successful but feel like you’re losing “the edge?”
- Do you find yourself thinking, “Is that all there is?” as though you’ve just climbed the “caterpillar pillar” of your career and discovered there’s nothing at the top?
- Are you stuck in a career that you know is draining you and yet hesitant to take the leap into your “true calling?”
- Do you wish you had a “thinking partner” to support you in achieving a desired promotion or in becoming savvier in some areas of leadership?
- Do you want to enhance your management style and techniques so that you can more effectively manage “up” and “down” within the organization?
- Have issues about your job performance been brought to your attention, and you feel stumped as to how to address them on your own?
- Are you good at your job but not happy doing it anymore?
- Are you responsible for a team of valuable high achievers who are chronically underperforming, burned out, or leaving to work for the competition?
- Have you found that you’re at your best when being coached or mentored by a key person whom you respect and with whom you feel strongly connected?
If you answered “yes” to several of the above questions, you now have a sense of whether you are ready for and how you will personally benefit from executive coaching.
How can coaching benefit your business/company?
Corporate managers who seek coaching for their company or employees can expect a positive return on their investment. By working with a corporate coach, managers can measure the impact on their employees’ performance via increased productivity, a more positive workplace, and the employees’ ability to respond successfully to change. Corporate coaching is for managers who want better results than they have been able to achieve on their own. Once managers are clear about their priorities (doing the right things), planning and organizing their own and staff efforts around those priorities is essential.
Coaching sessions can be conducted without having to leave the office or lose time from work by phone or face-to-face contact.
For an uncut corporate coaching testimonial, see “
My Coaching Story.”
Corporate/Business Coaching Rates
- Initial Intake Session (two-three hours) includes my review of your intake coaching packet and current performance evaluation and conference call with supervisor/CEO (if indicated, for the coaching alliance): $600.00
- One Month of Coaching (includes two one-hour sessions, email consultations as needed, periodic conference calls with supervisor/CEO, and review of preparation and feedback forms sent prior to and after scheduled sessions): $600.00*
*Payment is made in advance of the first scheduled session each month.
Corporate Coaching Package Discounts and Referral Incentives
Corporate referral incentives will be developed on an individual basis, depending on the coaching circumstances.
After the first month of coaching, you may elect to pay upfront for 3- and 6- month coaching packages:
- $1600.00 for 3 months (saves $200.00)
- $3000.00 for 6 months (saves $600.00)