Optimal Potentials

 

What is coaching?
Professional Coaching is a professional partnership between a qualified coach and an individual that supports the achievement of extraordinary results, based on goals set by the individual or team. Through the process of coaching, individuals focus on the skills and actions needed to successfully produce their personally relevant results.

The individual chooses the focus of conversation, while the coach listens and contributes observations and questions as well as concepts and principles which can assist in generating possibilities and identifying actions. Through the coaching process the clarity that is needed to support the most effective actions is achieved. Coaching accelerates the individual's progress by providing greater focus and awareness of possibilities leading to more effective choices. Coaching concentrates on where individuals are now and what they are willing to do to get where they want to be in the future. Coaches recognize that results are a matter of the individual's intentions, choices and actions, supported by the coach's efforts and application of coaching skills, approaches and methods.

Benefits of Coaching….
People who engage in a coaching relationship can expect to experience fresh perspectives on challenges and opportunities, enhanced thinking and decision making skills, enhanced interpersonal effectiveness, and increased confidence in carrying out their chosen work and life roles. Consistent with a commitment to enhancing their personal effectiveness, they can also expect to see appreciable results in the areas of productivity, personal satisfaction with life and work, and the achievement of personally relevant goals.

  3 Myths of Leadership Coaching

Myth: Coaching is for washouts, not winners
Reality: Leaders with the profile of champions seek coaching

Myth: Coaching starts with identifying and filling gaps
Reality: Coaching starts by declaring a powerful future.... what's possible, not predictable

Myth: Coaching is an isolated event that happens at an annual review
Reality: All Day, everyday, Coaching is about developing leaders at all levels who can achieve greatness