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WHY WINNERS HAVE COACHES
For most people the
journey through this adventure called Life can be a
demanding and solitary one. Whilst we may have mates,
lovers, partners, best friends and associates, they often
don’t always have the wherewithal that’s required to get us
to fly at our very best on a consistent basis.
In today’s business
arena, we are experiencing greater challenges, pressure,
stress and competition. As this trend increases, women
globally, have let it be known that they to have intention
of actively participating in the proceedings.
The challenge for
women now is to actively participate and contribute
effectively whilst still living up to their old image and
responsibilities. Life-Work balance is a challenge.
Navigating the hallways of long entrenched patriarchy can
sometimes seem overwhelming, and hewing a new pathway
through the corporate and business jungle can sometimes sap
all of your energy. Some assistance would be wonderful!
COACHING – the hottest
new vocation of the decade - delivers extraordinary value
for anyone seeking to move forward in his or her personal
and/or professional capacity. People approach coaches for a
variety of reasons. Some people hire coaches for a specific
goal they wish to achieve. Others want the ongoing
partnership that supports them in increasing their
satisfaction in their lives and fulfillment of their goals.
Coaching proves that
your past does not control your future, or your Now!
Coaching for women enables them to move through and beyond
their imagined limitations and challenges. Women have an
critical role to fulfill in helping to build a healthier
more sustainable future for humanity and the way we conduct
business.
A coach is a resource
to assist you in achieving unprecedented results, but he/she
will be unable to do this without your full participation
and commitment. With coaching it’s all about YOU.
In a recent study of
business coaching effectiveness, in a Fortune 500 firm, the
final results proved conclusively that coaching produced a
529% return on investment and significant intangible
benefits to the business – including additional financial
benefits from employee retention, which boosted the overall
ROI to 788%.
Your friends may
express some surprise that you would ‘need’ a coach. You
don’t ‘need’ a coach – you are just ready for one! People
who hire coaches are winners. They know the innate
possibility of who they can become with the support and
motivation of an unconditional partner and results champion.
Your decision to take
on a life coach or business coach will be a life altering
one. Coaching is a gift you give yourself because you know
that you are worth it, so be ready and willing to receive
what you are generously offering yourself.
Firstly your decision
signals to your inner self, your friends and your
acquaintances, that you are moving forward with unambiguous
intent to achieve your full potential as a human being. It
signals a clear message that you plan to move towards the
top 3%-5% of people, who are happy, healthy and wealthy.
Coaching is an ongoing
confidential partnership that accelerates a clients’
learning, performance and progress which results in an
overall improvement in the quality of their personal and
professional lives. The coach is the clients’ partner and
unconditional, confidential champion for success, under all
circumstances.
Coaching is also
‘clearing’. It is the art of ‘clearing the way’ and
supporting one’s Self, and others, in clearing obstacles,
considerations, fears and barriers, and moving towards what
is truly desired.
Coaching is about
supporting a person on the threshold of her greatest
challenge! It’s about making intelligent and audacious leaps
towards, and beyond, those challenges – whatever they may
be. Coaching is unconditional love in action!
The process of
engaging your life or business coach, and of becoming clear
on what you wish to obtain from the coaching relationship,
will be an invigorating and energizing one. The value that
you gain – just from this first clarifying step alone can
provide the full value of your first months fees – even
before your first session.
A good Coach works
holistically with you, rather than focusing strictly on your
initially selected goals. Your Life or business coach will
support and encourage you to call forth all aspects of
yourself more fully: physically, mentally, emotionally and
spiritually. A great coach will have a transformational
impact on all areas of your life.
Regardless of the
timing, the coach’s role, as the clients partner and
champion, is to facilitate the client in accessing his/her
own insights, answers, passions and personal genius. A coach
doubles your strength, resilience, courage and results.
Within this
partnership, the coach asks powerful questions, listens
intently, clarifies relentlessly, provides honest and
authentic feedback, and facilitates developing
thought-provoking possibilities. Safety and trust are
reinforced as the coach withholds unsolicited advice and
suspends his/her judgments and opinions.
Coaches don’t fix
you, they facilitate your accelerated transformation from
where you are to where you decide to be, and work with you
to refine an effective least-effort, best -results focused
action plan.
Coaching helps women
to become aware off, and address, their self-belief and
other self-management issues around career, home, family,
life, strategy, self-awareness, organisational awareness and
leadership behaviors.
With increased
clarity, alignment and focus, you will become highly
energized. Obstacles become exciting opportunities or
challenges, and learning moments, o release what has been
getting in your way for so long.
With the coach
supporting the client to stay focused, on track and
accountable, together they celebrate the big and the little
wins along the way engendering increased self worth, self
confidence and momentum.
With coaching, the
client is considered the expert. The coach and client
design their working relationship to best serve the clients’
needs and constraints; thereby creating a synergy of both
coach and coachee’s ’ knowledge, skills, abilities,
attitudes and intentions.
Coaching touches your
physical, mental, emotional and spiritual aspects, whilst
supporting you in accessing more of what it means to be
human. Often, during the coaching process, clients fall
more deeply in love with themselves and their new identity.
In this expanded state of love, learning, growth and
transformation occur naturally.
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A Coach is
facilitator, supporter, and witness, to clients…
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claiming their
personal power,
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unleashing their
creativity,
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experiencing a
greater sense of freedom and ease,
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taking empowering
risks,
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letting go of
limiting beliefs and behaviors,
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developing new and
more effective personal habits,
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realizing their
greatest dreams and aspirations.
Once you’ve engaged
your coach, be willing to begin to evolve by seeing things
differently and with a new inner vision. You will start to
re-examine your basic assumptions, explore fresh ways of
thinking, inspect expectations, unpack beliefs, and design
new approaches to success.
You won’t be forced to
make any changes. You will be challenged to stay open to
new concepts, principles, distinctions and evolutionary
steps that might work better for you than your current
approaches, as you move towards attaining your desired goals
and outcomes.
Most people hire a
life or business coach to accomplish specific, stretching
and attainable goals. The core focus of each session will
concentrate on these goals. As an additional positive spin
off, don’t be surprised if you discover and expand new parts
of yourself, or find your goals adjusting as you uncover and
unleash more about who you truly are and can become.
A Life Coach will
facilitate some of these benefits listed below as you move
towards your dreams and aspirations.
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Transform your
reactive behavior into response-able
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clarify values
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Clarify what you
really really want
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discover real
priorities
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Move up to a
bigger Game of Life
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Take direct
focused action
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Remove sources of
stress
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Experiment and try
new things
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Start telling the
absolute truth
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Examine your
current assumptions
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Raise your
personal standards even higher
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Recreate the
Life/Work balance
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Set stretching
goals that are part of your bigger game
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Obtain the
required support to handle issues
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Stop ‘tolerating’
things and /or suffering
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Upgrade your
mental software.
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Overcome block and
limitations
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Identify the core
competencies for your position (skills and behaviors)
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Learn to watch
yourself in action
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Take losses in
stride
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Increased
resilience - Rebound, recover faster
Championship athletes,
sportsmen and women, presidents and singers all have a
Coach… why not championship managers, mothers or
professional women?
The coaching formula
is quite simple…Coaching can double your effectiveness and
halve your efforts. Accelerated personal and professional
growth and increased satisfaction are the hallmarks of being
coached! Isn’t it time you explored new possibilities?
You’re worth it, aren’t you?
Tony Dovale
www.lifemasters.co.za 083-447-6300
women@coachfree.com
Also on www.inspiringwomen.co.za |
