personal life coaching
• Why engage a Life Coach?
• What’s my role as Personal Life Coach?
• What’s your role as Coachee?
• What does coaching ask of an individual?
• What are the benefits?
• Why "Spot Coaching™?"
• How is coaching distinct from other counseling?
• How do I know if I'm coachable?
• How do I know if we're a fit?
• Then what?
the law arena: witness preparation
• What, exactly, do I do with your clients?
• How would I work with your client?
• What are my financial terms?
Why engage a Life Coach?
A Life Coach is a powerful partner who supports you to achieve your most challenging goals, to see your dreams (no matter how large or small) become reality. As in any great enterprise, reaching for something bigger than ourselves takes teamwork. The support, clarity and expertise of a skilled Life Coach help broaden our thinking and expand our notions of what's possible.
What’s my role as Personal Life Coach?
- To provide objective assessment and observations that foster enhanced self-awareness and awareness of others
- To practice active listening in order to garner a full understanding of your circumstances
- To be a sounding board in support of possibility thinking, thoughtful planning and decision making
- To champion opportunities and potential
- To encourage stretch and challenge in line with your strengths and aspirations
- To foster the shifts in thinking that reveal fresh perspectives
- To challenge your blind spots in order to illuminate new possibilities
- To support the creation of alternative scenarios
What’s your role as Coachee?
- To create the coaching agenda based on your meaningful coaching goals
- To utilize assessment and observations to enhance self-awareness and awareness of others
- To envision your success
- To assume full responsibility for your decisions and actions
- To utilize the coaching process to promote possibility thinking and fresh perspectives
- To take courageous action in alignment with your goals and aspirations
- To engage in big picture thinking and problem solving skills
- To utilize the tools, concepts, models and principles provided by the coach
- To engage in effective forward actions
What does coaching ask of an individual?
To be successful, begin with intentions.
- Focus: on yourself, the tough questions, the hard truths -- and one’s successes
- Observation: of the behaviors and communications of others
- Listening: to your intuition, assumptions, judgments, and to the way you sound when you speak
- Self discipline: to challenge existing attitudes, beliefs and behaviors and to develop new ones which serve your goals in a superior way
- Style: leveraging your strengths and overcoming limitations in order to develop a winning style
- Decisive actions: however uncomfortable, and in spite of your insecurities, in order to reach for the extraordinary
- Compassion: for yourself as you experiment with new behaviors, experiences setbacks -- and for others as they do the same
- Humor: committing to not take yourself so seriously, using humor to lighten any situation
- Personal control: maintaining composure in the face of disappointment and unmet expectations, avoiding emotional reactivity
- Courage: to reach for more than before, to shift out of being fear-based into being in abundance as a core strategy for success, to engage in continual self-examination, to overcome internal and external obstacles
What are the benefits?
- Achieve your dreams and personal goals, large and small!
- Step outside of the influence and limitations of your current habits, patterns, reactions
- Build new skills and expertise for creating a life consistent with your new commitments
- Increase abilities to focus, clarify needs, modify reactions, build and trust personal intuition
- Deepen relationships and expand levels of communication
- Experience new levels of confidence, effectiveness and awareness
- Increase peace of mind and ease
- Live with a sense of satisfaction and fulfillment in reaching personally relevant goals and dreams
Why "Spot Coaching™?"
- Provides one time support and skilled listening when you're too emotional to think clearly
- Saves time and money in upset, breakdown and ineffective action
- Clarifies the upset while supporting immediate and "win/win" solutions
- Uncovers underlying fears and dissipates their intensity
- Strengthens your skill and ability to deal with difficult situations in the future
How is coaching distinct from other counseling?
Professional coaching is a distinct service that focuses on an individual's life as it relates to goal setting, outcome creation and personal change management. Therapy, on the other hand, deals with healing pain, dysfunction and conflict within the individual or a relationship. It often focuses on resolving difficulties arising from the past that hamper an individual's emotional state in the present.
How do I know if I'm coachable?
Download and fill out the questionnaire – Test: Are You Coachable?
Download Coachability Test PDF
How do I know if we're a fit?
Download and fill out the questionnaire – Test: What Coaching Style Fits You?
Download Coaching Compatibility Test PDF
Then what?
After taking the questionnaires, set up a free 30-minute phone conversation with me at (360-221-8745). Our conversation will clarify for you...
- How coaching can impact your life and goals
- If we're a good match
- How we can best work together to meet your needs
- What time and money are involved
the law arena: witness preparation
What, exactly, do I do with your clients?
- Facilitate clear, accurate and complete communication between you and your client
- Assist you both in speaking what is difficult and most important to share
- Provide on-the-spot feedback of the strengths and weaknesses of your client’s presentation
- Uncover your client's fears, perceptions and personal "hooks" that prevent them from telling their story with authenticity and credibility
- Build your client's strength, stamina and confidence in the face of their fears
- Help clarify the significance of your client's mannerisms, reactions, facial expressions, language and dress to the litigation process
- Give your client the experience of how they will be perceived by the jury and opposing counsel
- Improve and/or strengthen the client/attorney relationship
How would I work with your client?
- Set a mutually agreed upon time, allowing two to four hours, depending on attorney preference
- Work with client(s) alone if necessary; preference is partnership with attorney
- Uncover the client's "hooks" and reactions, strengthen their ability to remain calm and focused
- Have the client experience the challenges of litigation in a safe, supportive atmosphere
- Have the attorney deliver a mock deposition/trial scenario while I provide feedback
- Have the client experience success in responding to difficult questions and situations
- Allow for time alone with the client to uncover fears and concerns
- Create, in the process, new strategies for ideal client testimony
- Uncover, in the process, unrecognized pitfalls and weaknesses
What are my financial terms?
- I charge per hour with a requirement of two hours
- Payments upon receipt of invoice
- Retainer agreements are an option
- Per hour fees are clearly set up front and include my expenses
