What is Coaching?

• A powerful one-on-one relationship designed to support, challenge and partner the success of the person being coached. It involves questions, exercises and methodologies designed to explore today's challenges and opportunities in order to create tomorrow's successes.
• A partnership to help people improve their performance and enhance the quality of their lives
• Guiding individuals and teams to function at their most effective, successful and creative levels.
• People development

• Help people explore, set and reach their goals
• Are trained to listen, observe and provide thoughtful
questioning and strategies to elicit solutions from their clients.
• Help clients focus and prioritize
• Provide clients with the tools, support and structure to accomplish more

• Set better goals and attain those goals faster
• Have a professional to collaborate with and give you objective feedback
• Develop newly promoted managers' "people" and leadership skills
• Address issues/challenges in a performance appraisal
• Successfully work through work/career/professional transitions
• Evaluate your existing job/career/business. Is a fit with your talents and personal goals?

• Public Personnel Management Journal - "when training is combined with coaching, individuals increased productivity by an average of 88 percent, compared to 22 percent with training alone."
• The Training and Development Journal - "However excellent your classroom training, without good coaching you are probably wasting 87 cents out of every dollar you spend."
• The Hay Group- "More than 50% of Fortune 500 companies use executive coaches and six out of ten companies offer coaching to mid and senior level managers. ROI from the study is 529%. Coaching is the best strategy/methodology for successful leaders."

• Set direction and goals
• Develop effective strategies towards achieving your goals
• Offers honest, helpful and objective feedback
• Increases your chances of success by teaching you useful professional "tools"

• Either in-person (Issaquah, Sammamish or Redmond, WA) or telephone (or in combination)
• Additional email support
• Coaching sessions usually take place several times per month over an extended period of time, ranging from three to twelve months.

1. An initial intake or "get acquainted" session
2. Establishing priorities, wants and coaching issues
3. Create a compelling vision and goals
4. Develop the strategy roadmap to success
5. Learn new ways/skills/tools to implement your plan
6. Support, challenge, feedback, revision