As a resource to discovering coaching, here are examples of downloadable forms, website links, reading material and a list of Frequently Asked Questions.
| Life Chart (18K pdf) | Example coaching tool |
| Client Preparation (16K pdf) | Example coaching tool |
| Smart Goals (18K pdf) | Example coaching tool |
| 4 Steps to Learning (16K pdf) | Example coaching tool |
| Terms & Conditions (50K pdf) | Comfort Zone Coaching |
| Insurance Policy | Comfort Zone Coaching |
More than 74% of UK companies say that mentoring or coaching is made available to all staff.
www.britainstopemployers.com
UK organisations are increasingly aware of the business case for work-life balance.
www.employersforwork-lifebalance.org.uk
To understand more about how coaching 'fits' in the workplace search for 'Coaching' at The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development website.
www.cipd.co.uk
Peter Cornwell LCHDip, Director of The Comfort Zone, trained with the pioneer of life coach training in the UK, Curly Martin, author of the number one best selling book 'The Life Coaching Handbook'. He is a graduate from the Achievement Specialists Life Coaching diploma course and has been awarded the Life Coaching Practitioner Diploma (78K jpg).
www.achievementspecialists.co.uk
The above course is accredited by two external, non-affiliated bodies.
The European Coaching Institute has recognised the Achievement Specialists Life Coaching diploma course and has awarded it a grade A.
www.europeancoachinginstitute.org
The course has also been accredited by the Open College Network.
www.nocn.org.uk/Homepage
Quiet Leadership by David Rock
Quiet leaders bring out the best performance in others. They improve the thinking of people around them without telling anyone what to do. Given how many people in today's companies are being paid to think, improving others' thinking is one of the fastest ways to improve performance.
www.quietleadership.com
Coaching At Work Magazine
The CIPD Coaching at Work magazine is published 6 times a year. Each issue is packed with a lively mixture of case studies, special features, news and reviews.
www.cipd.co.uk/coachingatwork
Coaching is the partnership between an individual client and a qualified coach. The individual chooses what areas of their life to focus on, while the coach listens, asks questions and introduces tools or techniques to identify actions required and create an awareness of potential outcomes. The coaching process can produce extraordinary results using goal setting by the individual.
Coaching examines whom and where a client is in the now, and what the client is willing to do to become who and where he/she wants to be.
Engaging in coaching creates a new perspective in the ownership of your own choices and outcomes. Understanding how you are in charge of your own life. The insights gained from the experience will improve personal effectiveness, increase productivity and bring greater levels of fulfilment in the work / life balance through personal achievement.
What you would expect to achieve from coaching?
Do you want to change direction in life or you are at a crossroads and need help to work your way through a number of options?
Are you facing a challenge or opportunity or have an important goal to achieve that is motivating you to seek guidance?
Do your aims in life seem too difficult or are you up against a time frame and you need support to get through the process?
Do you have the need or desire to improve your personal outcomes?
Do you fear a successful outcome from something?
Is there is a gap in your personal knowledge, skills, resources or support structure?
Do you simply want to manage life better?
Is your work and life out of balance?
Are you are ready, willing and able to devote your time and energy to making real changes in your life?
If the answer is yes to the above, then coaching is the way forward.
If you have things in your life that you have not yet achieved, then coaching will enable you to develop a step-by-step plan to achieve them.
Coaching is being adopted to assist with personal life changes, self-employment issues, small business challenges and corporate company problems alike.
Coaching encourages people to focus on what is most important in their business and personal lives. Today staff want greater opportunities and to be in charge of their own lives. Coaching helps people to grow and that helps an organisation to grow.
Organisations can use effectively use coaching to:
Motivate a company to develop inclusive and co-operative work environments.
Attract and retain exceptional individuals as part of a people development programme.
Cope with the fast changes happening in environments external to the organisation.
Support staff through a downsizing, restructuring, merger or other organisational change.
Assist with a transition in leadership qualities, from the way people were trained to manage yesterday to the way they are required to manage today.
Empower staff that experience stress over issues relating to job security, increasing performance or working environment pressures.
To achieve business goals
Coaching begins with a discussion to identify a client’s current situation, to agree the relationship with the coach, to identify actions required, and outline measurable outcomes.
Coaching sessions can be in person or over the telephone, with each session lasting an agreed length of time.
Between sessions, the individual will be asked to complete specific tasks that support the achievement of their own goals.
The coach will introduce coaching tools or techniques, to develop the individual’s thinking and actions.
The coaching partnership will continue over an agreed period of time to suit the client’s needs.
Executive or One-2-One Coaching involves a personal relationship. The client must be able to relate to the coach in order to develop an effective partnership.
Here are some topics to ask a potential coach:
Coaching qualifications - Do you have a recognised qualification / coaching diploma?
Coaching experience - How many years of experience do you have and what situations have you experience in?
Background experience - What do you bring to coaching from your past?
Coaching sessions - How do you conduct a coaching session? How long are they and how often?
Coaching success stories – Please give me some examples?
External Performance Indicators
Measures familiar to the individual or team and areas of work that they directly influence and are therefore measurable.
Examples would include agreed outcomes in the achievement of goals, getting promoted at work, an increase in revenue, performance feedback from the individual or team’s environment, such as assessments from colleagues, customers, managers or themselves or personal performance data, such as productivity or efficiency.
Internal Performance Indicators
Measures from within the individual or team being coached.
Examples would include self-assessments at the outset and at intervals during the coaching process.
A shift in self-awareness and awareness of others.
A transformational change in a client’s thinking process. Resulting in a change of actions, emotional states and an increase in confidence.
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