Personal and business coaching is an ongoing professional relationship that helps people produce extraordinary results in their lives, careers, businesses or organizations. Professional coaches, through their relationships with their clients, encourage and empower them to find their way to solutions for issues which face them. The process may include setting and working toward goals, finding out what the individual client is doing to block their own progress, taking an assessment to help identify strengths and challenges, and many other strategies. Coaching clients include business leaders, scientists, educational leaders, teenagers, women and men in transition, individuals moving from their active career into retirement.
This is profession that is guided by a code of ethics and core competencies. There are a number of people who call themselves a coach who have not gone through the thorough and rigorous certification process that a professional coach has gone through. When making the decision to hire a coach here some guidelines to consider:
- Ask if the coach has received training from an accredited and recognized coaching school.
- Connect with several coaches to find the style and energy match for you.
- Ask about life experiences- many new coaches have been working with people for a long time and only recently have added professional coach to their credentials.
- Ask about their coaching philosophy and the process they may follow during a coaching session.
These are just a few guidelines to keep in mind. Websites for more information include www.internationalcoachfederation.com and www.tucsoncoaches.com
Happy Coaches Week to all my colleagues; and a huge appreciation and Yahoo! to all my wonderful clients who allow me to live my life purpose.
Much Joy,
Colleen
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