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Our goal through Life Masters Business
Coaching is to help clients achieve
emotional and professional satisfaction by leading them to a
healthy integration of lifestyle, values, and career.
Life Masters International’s coaching plans are
custom-designed based on each client’s specific needs and
goals. We work closely with the client to map out a
personalized strategy for successful professional, and
personal, development.
Our Coaching philosophy is founded on 3 core approaches
• AI (Appreciative Enquiry) coaching
• AQ (Resilience) coaching
• Ontological coaching
These approaches are synthesized to incorporate the
following simple steps:
Awareness: Through
information gathering, determine how performance links to
current business goals, and identify areas of development as
well as develop elevated levels of Self-Awareness,
Self-Esteem and Self-Confidence.
We help our clients understand the ways that the roles they
have learned to play personally, and the ways they have
learned to respond to challenges in their personal lives,
may impact their responses under pressure on the job.
Analysis: Through
assessment, analysis and feedback we determine what’s best
to do, to close the gaps in capability, capacity and
commitment.
Explore: Discover and explore most feasible, and effective,
solutions to challenges and ways of being, that provide
least effort, maximum leverage and desired results with
sustainability.
Emotional ownership:
Whilst clear strategic thinking is a fundamental
requirement, we’re also aware that many people shut down
their abilities to think clearly and make decisions under
pressure. Our AQ coaching development process assists
clients with learning to uncover the ways that their
habituated reactions to stress can work for them and against
them.
Action: The action phase
provides the bridge between the person’s inner process and
outer accomplishment that’s necessary to assist clients in
achieving their identified goals. We plan and implement
well-defined action steps informed by regular feedback and
monitoring of progress as the coachee moves toward
identified and measurable outcomes.
Hold Accountable: We
work with the client to define the most effective tools and
processes for achieving results. We also may ask for
follow-up emails with action items after each session. We
act as a cheerleader and acknowledge progress as well as
holding the client fully accountable for delivering upon
agreed items.
Achievement: LMI’s
approach assists clients with the understand that it’s the
conversations they have with themselves that can impact
everything from the confidence they project to the
creativity they are able to muster when dealing with day to
day challenges. An ongoing evaluation of the coaching
process, and coaching impact, provides regular measures of
business results and professional outcomes. Celebrating of
each step of success along the way supports further
commitment to the coaching development process.
Nothing is Broken
At Life Masters International we believe
that each individual is naturally creative, resourceful and
whole. Nothing is broken or needs fixing. We believe that
the client is ultimately in charge of guiding the coaching
relationship.
We can provide suggestions, and options, as to what might
work best and where to begin and challenge client’s possible
choices, but the client must be willing to take charge, to
make decisions and choices and ask for what they want.
Focus
We believe that the client has the potential, capacity,
ability, passion and drive to succeed in anything they
choose to be, do and have in their life. Therefore our
primary role is to provide the unbiased, confidential
sounding-board, and probing questions, that will assist them
in unlocking their own wisdom, enable them to discover their
strengths, and to collaborate to create strategies for
action that will fit best with who they are and what they
intend to achieve.
Responsibility
As the coach, we never take over
responsibility by acting as an expert authority, or by
telling the client what they should or should not do. We
make every effort in our coaching to support the client in
intelligently considering the implications of their possible
actions and decisions, so that success may generate
continued vitality, prosperity and desired results, not only
for themselves, but for others as well.
Our intention is to accelerate a client’s growth and
achievement of results within a context of realistic
sustainable, work / life balance. All interactions are
strictly confidential.
Our Methodology
Initial meetings with the sponsor and coaching client are
face to face. The sponsor meeting is to gain insight,
understanding and match overall expectations of the
intervention. The initial Coachee meeting is held to ensure
a complementary and harmonizing relationship fit between
coach and coachee.
Thereafter we agree on a balance of either, telephonic,
and/or face to face encounters. These are in accordance with
each coachees’ specific work needs and time constraints.
This may be a blend of weekly, bi-monthly, multiple sessions
per week etc. We are flexible and collaborate very closely
with each coachee to achieve their’ desired outcomes.
In between sessions we are on hand for brief tele-coaching,
email interactions, homework feedback, “scores” and break-throughs.
The Outcomes from the Coaching
The core intended outcomes are matched from the initial
discussions with the sponsor and the coachee. Although this
is the core focus of our coaching, we find that often there
are other results that add to the value of the entire
coaching process. Usual outcomes, over and above initial
goals, include improved self-awareness, enhanced resilience
and self–confidence, clearer goals and action plans and a
more motivated/inspired coachee.
As problems, possibilities and solutions exist in the eye of
the beholder, through the ontological coaching aspect the
coachee will have greater awareness and understanding of the
3 main areas of ontological coaching, being those of
language, emotions, and body, and an understanding of how
these impact perspectives, possibilities and their
behaviours.
ISPI -
International Society for Performance Improvement
In order to systematically close the gap between
expected/required and current performance, our coaching
processing is aligned with the ISPI (International Society
for Performance Improvement) model. (See attached document)
The Duration
Typical coaching interventions are initiated for a 90-120
day period with 60-90 day extensions thereafter. The final
duration depends upon the outcomes targeted and actually
achieved. Some interventions may continue over many months
to years based upon the clients’ specific needs and value
received.
For more information or a free session please contact Tony
Dovale of Life Masters International Coaching on 083-447-6300 or 011
467-1763
- Tony Dovale
November 2006 |
