What Is Total Awareness Coaching?Coaching is a series of conversations structured to facilitate personal development and professional growth.
But what does that mean in practice? What does an executive coach actually do?
At Total Awareness Coaching, we help our clients see the big picture. We help you look at situations from many points of view. We point out patterns in your language and behaviour that might be holding you back, and we work with you to find other ways of thinking and acting to help you get better results.
Through effective coaching, you'll find new solutions, develop new skills, change behaviours and improve your performance. You'll understand how you come across to others - and how you can make adjustments that will have a major effect.
Once an organisation has decided to use coaching, the coach, the client and the sponsor work together through a clear and structured process.
Together, the coach and the sponsor will agree the focus and duration of the programme and measurable, tangible goals for the coaching engagement.
In the first
stage the process, your coach will further clarify
priorities for yourdevelopment with input and feedback from a select
group of your colleagues. This input helps inform the
coaching discussions going forward.
Your coach will speak
with a group of 5-10 people you select to get their perspectives on your strengths and your areas for development. The feedback remains confidential. Your coach will review trends and themes in the comments, without referring to verbatim or attributable
remarks. At regular intervals through the programme, your will check back
with these stakeholders to gauge their assessment of your progress.
You will
bring specific topics for discussion to each coaching session. These topics may
be observations on her recent experiences, challenges you are facing in a
specific situation, options to be considered in a key decision or preparation
for a particular meeting / presentation.
Your coach's role
will be to ask you questions that facilitate discussion of the issue in
hand and encourage you to explore patterns of thoughts, feelings and behaviours.
These questions may be very simple – or they may be more challenging. The
question / discussion process will help you think broadly about the
specific issue, identify more options for addressing it while developing your self-awareness.
After half of the agreed coaching sessions are completed - and again at the end of the coaching programme - the client and the coach will complete a review exercise to assess progress and determine next steps. This review is shared with the sponsor and client organisation.
The coaching relationship is based upon trust. The content of coaching sessions is kept strictly between the client and the coach. The only exceptions to this rule are if the client discloses information to the coach that suggests the client may commit or has committed a criminal offence or a major breach of the organisation's code of conduct.
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