What a coach does…

Your coach helps you focus on positive things that will help you get where you want to be. Your coach doesn’t need to be a veteran or expert in any specific field. He needs to have a well-developed sense of compassion and empathy, the ability to ask probing questions and really listen, and a heart-felt desire to help you fulfill your potential.

Your coach provides stable support and encouragement in the midst of questions and concerns:

Your coach helps you discover and use your God-given abilities, talents and gifts to get where you want to be.

Your coach helps you build self-esteem:

If you are not fulfilled in your job, you may have lots of self doubts. 

You may need encouragement and someone to help you discover and understand that you have attributes that are to be valued. You may be sticking with your current job because you lack self confidence: Who else would want me? Perhaps you are staying in an unsatisfying, unfulfilling job because the uncertainty of finding something causes you to maintain the status quo. Sometimes, lack of self esteem makes the thought of finding fulfillment daunting.

Your coach helps you find where you can grow:

Life choices are made using knowledge of one’s background, makeup, and preferences. You may be unaware of or discount your strengths and what you are capable of. You may not be sure about what you really want.  Your coach helps you find the answers to these questions. This is important in order to find possibilities for which you have an interest or affinity and for which your background and personality are well suited.

Your coach acts as a sounding board to listen to you and support you in finding your own best advice:

Your coach listens, discusses, evaluates and provides unconditional support, assisting you in finding your own best advice.

Your coach helps you develop and prioritize an action plan:

An action plan consists of a set of steps that need to be accomplished in order to achieve a goal. Because it’s impossible to do everything that’s important all at once, the steps need to be prioritized so that they are accomplished in a logical order. Some steps can be accomplished in parallel; some steps must be done serially.

What a coach does NOT do…