Coaching is a thought-provoking and creative process based on the partnership between a client and a coach. The coach plays the role of facilitator of change, engaging in direct conversations with the client. The client is responsible for enacting the change.
I coach employees in the context of their workplace and can be hired by organizations. I also can be hired by individuals for professional and life coaching. I am a Certified Professional Coach, having received my training through Coaching for Transformation (ACTP).
Results for Organizations:
- High staff morale
- Employee longevity
- Sustained momentum for accomplishing mission
Results for Staff Person:
- Renewed energy
- Effective strategies for work
- Sense of accomplishment and satisfaction with work
Methods:
- Values and goal clarification
- Examining modes of operating
- Brainstorming
- Identifying plans of action
- Making empowering requests
- Establishing systems for accountability
- Building new skills
While working with me, individuals in nonprofits have:
- found a new job that pays better in an organization with colleagues who appreciate them
- worked to reform their organization and became Executive Director
- left nonprofit and launched their own mission-driven business
- recognized the strength of their skills, experience, intuition, and values, and showed up in their own way and fully as a leader
- asked for and received a promotion and significant raise
- navigated their first time as Executive Director or supervisor
- learned to work with a board of directors
- developed ways to state clearly their workplace needs to their supervisors and to those whom they supervise in order to change the nature of their interactions
- taken their business to the next level of development
- grounded themselves in what matters most to them in order to make changes and take action
- generally felt much better about themselves and their situations, no matter what course of action they decided to take