What is coaching?
Coaching is about getting clear on what you want for yourself, personally and professionally, setting intentions, identifying the best way to achieve your goals and going for it!
It takes courage to pause, consider what really matters to you, and to be in conscious action. Through a committed partnership with your coach, you will be asked thought-provoking questions to uncover your values, behavioral patterns, and beliefs that you hold (which may or may not serve you), and as a result, exciting new perspectives will emerge to propel you forward.
In the corporate world, an employee generally receives coaching for one of two reasons:
Through strengths-based executive coaching, you will learn to identify your natural strengths and aim them for success! We'd love to do this for you!
Separate from corporate engagements, an individual might engage in
Private Coaching for a variety of reasons:
You may want more of something (at work or in general):
Or, you may feel you are missing something (at work or in general):
Or, you might have too much of something:
There are various tools a coach can use to bring out your own personal leadership (assessments, techniques, etc.), but mostly it's about the coach asking questions to challenge the status quo, to uncover both natural, unique talents, as well as impediments that might be in your way, to open doors of possibility and empowerment.
It is not a coach's job to "fix" you, so while the coach is asking the questions, you'd be doing most of the "work" by supplying the thoughtful answers - but you'll always know where you stand and get completely honest, private feedback from the coach in service of you. You can count on that.
The coach and client will focus on what energizes you and gives you momentum, and you will be challenged to get into specific, accountable action in order to turbo-charge the areas you want to develop.
Let's get started!
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It takes courage to pause, consider what really matters to you, and to be in conscious action. Through a committed partnership with your coach, you will be asked thought-provoking questions to uncover your values, behavioral patterns, and beliefs that you hold (which may or may not serve you), and as a result, exciting new perspectives will emerge to propel you forward.
In the corporate world, an employee generally receives coaching for one of two reasons:
- High Performers & High Potentials (75% of executive coaching engagements)
- The majority of executive coaching is for exceptionally talented employees, who desire to further refine their craft & steepen the trajectory of their careers. Reasons why people engage an executive coach vary but examples include:
- Elevating your visibility
- Networking and partnering smarter
- Boosting your confidence
- Increasing job satisfaction
- Finessing certain parts of your leadership to get promoted
- Elevating your visibility
Through strengths-based executive coaching, you will learn to identify your natural strengths and aim them for success! We'd love to do this for you!
- Performance Management (25% of coaching engagements) - when an employee is not performing up to company standards, a coach is brought in to try to rectify performance. In severe cases, a coach might even provide outplacement services to assist a low performing individual to find another, more suitable job. At Optimism, Inc., we do not engage in Performance Management coaching as we have found that such individuals are not generally committed to the process. Coaching should be fun and motivating!
Separate from corporate engagements, an individual might engage in
Private Coaching for a variety of reasons:
You may want more of something (at work or in general):
- engagement
- leadership presence
- motivation
- career momentum
- expanded connections (networking)
- an increased sense of empowerment
- something else...
Or, you may feel you are missing something (at work or in general):
- confidence
- focus or clarity
- work/life balance
- time for yourself
- fulfillment
- something else...
Or, you might have too much of something:
- your plate is full of things you don't really care about
- you have trouble setting boundaries
- something else...
There are various tools a coach can use to bring out your own personal leadership (assessments, techniques, etc.), but mostly it's about the coach asking questions to challenge the status quo, to uncover both natural, unique talents, as well as impediments that might be in your way, to open doors of possibility and empowerment.
It is not a coach's job to "fix" you, so while the coach is asking the questions, you'd be doing most of the "work" by supplying the thoughtful answers - but you'll always know where you stand and get completely honest, private feedback from the coach in service of you. You can count on that.
The coach and client will focus on what energizes you and gives you momentum, and you will be challenged to get into specific, accountable action in order to turbo-charge the areas you want to develop.
Let's get started!
Click here to return to
the FAQ Home Page
Ready to talk? Click Here.
