About Coaching
A coach understands your current situations, helps you clarify your goals, and supports you to reach your goals quickly. A coach listens to your story with 100% attention and guides you in the process of identifying goals and executing action plans to get to your goals.
What are the difference between a coach and a therapist?
A therapist helps a client with his/her emotional issues in the past; issues which prevent a client from moving forward in his/her life. In this nature, the focus of the topic is mostly in the past to understand the present. On the other hand, in a coaching relationship, a coach listens to a client’s desire and helps a client reach his/her goals. A coach and a client focus on the future as a continuation of the present. With a trustful partnership between a coach and a client, clients find their own truth in present, move toward their goals in the future, and realize their dreams.
Relationship between a coach and a client
A relationship between a coach and a client is always equal partnership. It is not an advisory relationship in that a coach gives “answers” to a client. The reason is because YOU have all the answers you need in you. A coach brainstorms ideas with you and ask various questions to draw answers from you. In the process, a coach provides you with a structure and resources needed.
People who work with a coach often experience:
- No longer lost in their own thoughts.
- See their goals clearly.
- No more wasting their time on “thinking” about their issues.
- New discovery about themselves.
- A coach has objective and independent perspectives to support them, unlike their friends or family members who can have their own agenda.
- Encouraged and supported all the time by their coach toward their goals which they choose for themselves.
- Regularly scheduled sessions allow them to focus on what is important in their lives and to prioritize daily activities.
Are you ready for coaching?
If following statements apply to you now, you are ready to have a coach in your life!
- I have been seeking some change in my life, but I don’t know what I should do or how to do it.
- I know I’m in life transition right now, but so many ideas and thoughts distract me from going forward.
- I don’t know how to improve communication with Americans at my work.
- I’ve been thinking about change my job, but I don’t know what type of job is best fit for me.
- I can commit myself to spend 30-45 minutes every week for coaching on the phone.
- Now is the time for me to change.
