What is Coaching?
The Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (iPEC) defines coaching as a unique profession with many interesting aspects. Working with a coach is an investment with an expected return on one’s life. Because clients invest a substantial amount of time and money into the coaching process and agree to be accountable for action, they immediately demonstrate a commitment to participate and get results.
People usually look for coaches for two reasons. First, due to the growing awareness of the profession, more and more people from all walks of life want to explore this cutting-edge modality that offers new possibilities for success. The second reason comes from what they know or have heard: coaching works! People are realizing that it just makes good sense to have the assistance of someone who is non-judgmental, a good listener, and capable of thinking “outside the box” to help them make their lives more manageable and enjoyable.
The coaching relationship is a partnership between the coach and the client. This alliance is what makes coaching so powerful.
According to the International Coach Federation (ICF), “the powerful difference between a regular conversation and a coaching conversation is that a coaching conversation has an outcome. The coach partners with his or her clients to establish a meaningful outcome for each session that helps them to make progress towards their overarching goal for the coaching engagement.”
The ICF defines coaching as “partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential.”
It is important to note that coaching is NOT therapy. Therapy focuses on past traumas and issues to change self-destructive habits, repair and improve relationships and work through painful feelings. Coaching focuses on where you are today and creates more action based solutions to move forward and toward reaching goals.
When you work with Coach Allie not only will you get a coach who will hold space for you to own your authentic self, you will get a coach who is confidential because the time you spend together is a safe space. Coach Allie will hold you accountable to the goals you set and will cheer you on along the way.
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