What is coaching?

Coaching is like tickling. Consider trying to tickle yourself. It doesn't work very well - if at all. Your brain sees your wiggling fingers and says, "Uh-uh! I see you, I know what you are trying to do, and I'm not having anything of it!" Our brains like things like progress, evolution or anything that shakes up the status quo.

 

Now, someone else comes at you, making tickling gestures. Your brain wakes up! "Wait a minute. What's happening here? I need to do something."

 

This is what coaching is: it's tickling your thinking, challenging you (and your team) to think differently, and interrupting old patterns of beliefs, behavior, assumptions, and perspectives.

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A coach helps people move forward in ways they may struggle with on their own. It's helping shine clear light on where they are now, really. It's connecting what's really important and meaningful, from priorities to visions and dreams. It's about action towards where they want to be. Coaching both helps people evolve themselves, and it helps them return to their essence or authentic self. It takes commitment. It's also energizing, liberating, and fascinating.

 

This is so powerful for us, as leaders and citizens in our whole life and world.

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More than that, it is hard to say. Which is why coaching needs to be experienced.

 

Coaching is a personalized, tailored, and consistent approach that will bring out the best in you and your teams. This ripples out to other teams, to stakeholders across your organization, to customers and partners, and into your life as a whole​​​​. ​

 

We take an applied neuroscience approach, understanding the science of the brain's many systems to help you:

• Master techniques for courageous, empathetic leadership

• Navigate difficult conversations with confidence

• Assess and enhance your leadership approach​​

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When is coaching beneficial?

Partnering with a professionally certified coach helps you navigate challenges and opportunities with greater clarity, efficiency, impact, and ease. Our coaching leverages cutting-edge brain science to maximize impact in areas such as evolving critical skills to foster trust, face uncertainty, and build resiliency and adaptability through ongoing change. ​

 

Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot.

Seek the path that demands your whole being.

~Rumi

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Leadership focus examples​

• Managing people, developing presence and impact, being more strategic, helping others develop, change management, and delegation.

• Team development, building trust, and collaborative synergy.

• Understanding the big picture, contexts, positions, and situations.

• Effectiveness of communication, managing stakeholders, relationship challenges

• Adapting to organizational culture and expectations and to external dynamics

• Prioritization, time and energy management, and work-to-live balance (vs. live-to-work)

• Dealing with uncertainty and change.

• Transitions in roles, levels, new organizations, and managing overall life stages.

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Personal self-Leadership examples

It's also about your ever-evolving self as an individual, such as:

• Issues of confidence, taming inner critics and saboteurs.

• Dealing with emotions, processing difficult situations, and making decisions.

• Self-care, burnout, personal well-being, and building resilience.

• Understanding motivation and drives, the "self" and identity, and personal growth.

• Gaining clarity and a meaningful sense of purpose, values, and aspirations.

• Processing feedback, 360 reviews, and psychometrics.

• Personal development and planning.

• Identifying strengths and resources and developing skills, behaviors, and new habits.

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Coaching is different than mentoring or classroom training. 

Mentoring and training transfer broad, generic knowledge, primarily received passively. Coaching complements and can amplify mentoring and training. The development focus and path are personalized and determined by the individual.

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Coaching empowers you to strengthen who you are as a leader in your organization, as a team player, and in your life. You will gain deeper awareness and understanding in every context you choose. This will feed into clarity of where and how you want to go forward in a way that is most relevant and meaningful. The aim is also to stretch your comfort zones and evolve while staying true to, and even become more of who you authentically are. Ultimately, it is about greater ease and flow, richer outcomes, and enjoyment along the way.

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