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What Is Coaching?
Coaching is a
collaborative partnership that allows you to begin living your ideal life sooner
and more effectively that you would if you were creating it alone.
The focus is
on you, the client.
With Ann as your coach, she is
your mentor, guide, partner, sounding board and advocate.
The personal
coaching environment is a safe, confidential place for you to begin to explore
your authentic self, develop skills, excavate your true desires and realize
greater fulfilment in life.
Coaching
synthesizes the best from psychology, transformational work, business,
philosophy and financial wisdom in a way that will benefit the entrepreneur, the
professional, the business owner, and the individual.
With a
personal coach you will work with someone who will
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Be honest and straightforward with
you
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Act as your unbiased sounding board
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Listen to your concerns and ideas
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Appreciate who you really are
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Focus exclusively on your interests
and successes
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Celebrate your wins with you
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Give you appropriate feedback
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What to Work on With a Coach
Personal coaching is based on YOU. With Ann as your coach you will
discover what will make you truly happy and fulfilled. Perhaps you have some
dreams you keep meaning to do but don’t know how to begin. You decide the areas
of our life you want to work on. It might be
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Achieving financial security
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Building more satisfying
relationships
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Finding a career that honours your
values
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Building a life with less stress
and struggle, more clarity, more serenity, more fun
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Learning to say “no” so as to take
greater care of the self
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Doing what is really important and
not doing what isn’t really important
As a professional coach Ann can also help you:
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Simplify and organize your time and
life by clearing out the clutter from your life
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Identify, clarify and actualize
dreams and goals
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Develop a plan for achieving
success with integrity
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Design and execute life planning
step by step
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Get started and follow through to
the end of a project, both personal and professional
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Become focused by learning to
eliminate distractions
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Grow your business and personal
life to a higher level
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Identify and develop the skills you
already have
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Set goals with the emphasis on your
values and your vision of your preferred future
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Stay focused on goals
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Work holistically to develop the
whole person - emotional, physical, spiritual and intellectual
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Find the way to live your life to
the fullest!
With Ann as your personal Coach you will find yourself ceasing to put up with
things that drag you down and drain you of energy. You will learn how to be more
effective and take care of you without feeling guilty.
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Who Needs a Coach?
People who come to Ann for coaching are often those who have already
reached a good level of success in their lives and are eager to take it to the
next level personally and professionally. For example, executives and business
owners who have achieved a great deal in their lives and want to create greater
happiness and fulfilment. Corporate managers who want to achieve greater
success within the organization often hire Ann to coach their employees or for
teams of employees.
Coaching is for anybody who:
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Doesn’t love what they do and who
are spending most of their time doing what is not important to them
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Is planning a career change
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Needs a fresh perspective on life
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Is in a rut
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Wants to start their own business
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Feels unproductive or unsuccessful
and wants greater results and satisfaction in life
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Wants to simplify life and achieve
balance between all the parts of their life
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Is in life transition into or out
of the workforce
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Wants a values-based life
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Is facing a series of challenges
and is not sure what direction to take
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Wants to mange their time better
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How Does Coaching Work?
Coaching is a proactive experience that grounds concepts in the
steps necessary to make ideas into reality. It works because of:
Synergy: The coach and client become a team. They are partners, focused on
the client’s goals and needs. Together they can accomplish more than if they
were alone. “Two heads are better than one”
Structure: With a coach the client takes more actions, thinks
bigger, gets the job done using a game plan and doable action steps
Expertise: Coaches inspire, nudge clients on the right direction,
keep them focused and on purpose, bring out their best in their natural
abilities, their strengths, and their unique gifts. The focus in coaching is on
developing the person, who they ARE instead of the many things they DO.
Coaching kicks people out of their ripe and rotting comfort zone
into a green and growing stretch zone. Coaching guides and encourages them to
take risks that can create happiness on their job, in
relationships and in life.
Often Ann's role is to ask questions to help the client find
their own answers and see their problem from the position of their greatest
strength.
For example, a coach might ask you:
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What do you really want?
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What isn’t working for you in your
life right now?
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What do you want more, and less, of
in your life?
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Where do you want to be in five
years?
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What gets in the way of you getting
the results you want?
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What are you putting up with?
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What does your ideal life look
like?
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What is your unique talent?
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What one thing would make the
biggest difference in your life right now?
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What’s the biggest challenge you
have?
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If you could have anything, what
would it be?
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What goal are you ready to achieve?
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Is Coaching for You?
Not everyone is ready for a coach. You have to be ready, willing
and able to change behaviours that have not gotten results for you in the past,
to accept responsibility, and to let nothing stand in your way.
You have to give it time also; not only for the actual session, but
also for actions between calls that support the changes you are seeking.
After several months, you will find your life is renewed. You will
be more intentional about your actions and choices. You will be more aware. Your
body will be healthier and less stressed and you will experience freedom from
material and emotional clutter. You will be living better.
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How Long Before I See
Results?
Usually positive results
begin to manifest right away. An outside maximum is between three and six
months.
As a beginning Ann guarantees her clients that within 4 coaching sessions they
will see results happening. However for more longer-lasting results and
achievements she requests that her clients commit to a three month minimum of
coaching sessions so they can observe the unfolding of their process and focus
more on that process than being in a hurry to get any result.
If
you are committed to working towards personal and professional goals with Ann as
your coach, you should see progress in the first couple of weeks.
By breaking down big goals
into small achievable goals, you may experience success from the beginning.
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