Supercoaching

 

Traditional coaching takes place primarily on a horizontal dimension – coaches assist their clients in getting from point “A” to point “B”. Yet lasting, sustainable change nearly always happens in the vertical dimension – a deepening of the ground of being of the client and greater access to inspiration and wisdom. While this has generally led to an either/or approach to success and personal growth and a sharp division between therapy and coaching, transformative coaching – or, as I like to call it, “supercoaching” – uses the vertical dimensions to create change on the inside while you continue to move forward towards your goals on the outside.

in “Supercoach” by Michael Neill

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The kinds of changes that this type of coaching leads to, can be better understood with some simple definitions:

1 – Performance Coaching (changes in a specific situation)

People would hire a coach to help them deal with a specific situation they are struggling with. The goal is to peak perform at a certain moment in time.
Once the situation has been handled, the project finished, the goal attained, people move on with their lives just like before.

2 – Life Coaching (changes on a specific life area)

In this case, we are not considering one single situation, but a whole life area. We may be talking about improving relationships, careers, business sales, but also developing skills like self-confidence, presentations, public speaking, parenting, etc. The goal is to share strategies on how to improve a certain area of life and from then on, that specific area actually changes.

3 – Transformative Coaching (global change)

At this level, what we aim for is transformation, a long lasting shift in our way of being in the world, of perceiving and experiencing life. The goal is to let what’s inside, out. More than developing a skill or overcoming a feeling, we want to really transform ourselves, allowing us to become our true selves.

Sometimes, all it takes is to look at things under a new perspective. When that happens, when you get that insight, transformation becomes inevitable. And this is when you gain control and get to create what you really want for your life.

You never know when THE conversation of your life time is going to take place…

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How is coaching different from psychotherapy?

The best and simplest explanation I found was given to me by Steve Chandler and is from Dr. Nathaniel Braden (a well known psychologist who recently moved into coaching after realizing how effective coaching is compared to psychotherapy).

Psychotherapy, traditionally, rests on the premise that the client has been damaged by some past event or past events and needs to be fixed or healed. The concern is with the past and the present.

Coaching rests on the premise that the client possesses unrecognized resources with which he or she can develop strategies that lead aspirations to their fulfillment. The focus is on the present and the future.

Traditional therapy is about excavating and neutralizing negatives.

Coaching is about liberating positives. It’s about putting the client in touch with his or her own wisdom and creativity. Coaching is about designing a future, not about getting over the past. One’s relationship to a coach is often a long-term project, because there need be no end to the process of learning and growth. This is why many champion athletes and high performing business executives retain coaches long after the time they have become successful.

If a person suffers from acute anxiety, severe depression, or low self-esteem, he or she needs psychotherapy, not coaching.

However, if a person is basically healthy but is seeking greater fulfillment in one or another aspect of life, coaching can be invaluable, addressing a wide range of issues, including work, finances, health, relationships, education, recreation. Coaching looks to close the gap between our dreams and the realities of our existence.

Are you ready to become a better YOU?

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As your transformative coach my role is to help shed some light on to your path, spot what you might not see for yourself, hear what you might not notice that you’re saying, untie a few knots that might be holding you back, offer you my unconditional support, ask you the right questions, throw you a couple of challenges and walk with you along this amazing adventure that is your personal journey of self discovery.

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what the world is saying about professional coaching

“I absolutely believe that people, unless coached, never reach their maximum potential.”

Bob Nardelli CEO, Home Depot

“I never cease to be amazed at the power of the coaching process to draw out the skills or talent that was previously hidden within an individual, and which invariably finds a way to solve a problem previously thought unsolvable,”

John Russell, Managing Director, Harley-Davidson Europe Ltd

“World-class athletes know it. So do opera divas. Winners in nearly every profession know that without the right coach, they won’t perform at their peak. And now a select number of business people know it, too… Even world-class athletes can’t reach peak performance without a great coach.”

Fast Company

“As for coaching, having someone listen to you and encourage you, and break everything down into easy, concrete steps, is rather nice.” “It’s not just helping them with hard-core business issues but also helping them with their personal issues…”

Business Week

“Coaching is now part of the standard leadership development training for elite executives at IBM, Motorola, J.P. Morgan, Chase and Hewlett-Packard.”

The Wall Street Journal

“Asked for a conservative estimate of the monetary payoff from the coaching they got, these managers described an average return of more than $100,000, or about six times what the coaching had cost their companies.”

Fortune

“The goal of coaching is the goal of good management to make the most of an organization’s valuable resources.” Coaching ” is now one of the strongest retention tools in a manager’s arsenal.”

The Harvard Business Review

“… other companies …. offer coaching as a prerequisite to proven managers, in the understanding that everyone has blind spots and can benefit from a detached observer.”

New York Times

“Between 25 percent and 40 percent of Fortune 500 companies use executive coaches”

The Hay Group

“Coaches are everywhere these days. Companies hire them to shore up executives or, in some cases, to ship them out. Division heads hire them as change agents. Workers at all levels of the corporate ladder, fed up with a lack of advice from inside the company, are taking matters into their own hands and enlisting coaches for guidance on how to improve their performance, boost their profits, and make better decisions about everything from personnel to strategy.”

Fortune

“Recent studies show business coaching and executive coaching to be the most effective means for achieving sustainable growth, change and development in the individual, group and organization.”

HR Monthly

For a surprising number of people, it is now the coach-not the boss-who pushes them to hire, to fire, to fine-tune a sales pitch, to stretch.”

Fortune

“If you’re not getting better, you’re falling behind. To elevate your game, find the personal coach with the right strategy and style for you”

Fast Company

“A coach could be in order when executives decide to sharpen their skills for the next new thing, or when they just want help setting the proper business goals-fine-tuning what, for the most part, already works..”

CIO

“The goal of coaching is the goal of good management: to make the most of an organization’s valuable resources”

Harvard Business Review

“…other companies…offer coaching as a prerequisite to proven managers, in the understanding that everyone has blind spots and can benefit from a detached observer.”

The New York Times

“Career management coaches…can identify missing skills or style difficulties and offer pragmatic tips…”

The Wall Street Journal

“Across corporate America, coaching sessions at many companies have become as routine for executives as budget forecasts and quota meetings.”

Investors Business Daily

“Executives and HR managers know coaching is the most potent tool for inducing lasting personal change.”

Ivy Business Journal

“Part therapist, part consultant, part motivational expert, part professional organizer, part friend, part nag — the personal coach seeks to do for your life what a personal trainer does for your body.”

Minneapolis-St. Paul Star-Tribune

“Once used to bolster troubled staffers, coaching now is part of the standard leadership development training for elite executives and talented up-and-comers at IBM, Motorola, J.P. Morgan, Chase, and Hewlett Packard. These companies are discreetly giving their best prospects what star athletes have long had: a trusted adviser to help reach their goals.”

CNN

“Got a nagging feeling that your life could be more fulfilling? Want to change direction but aren’t sure how to do it? Here’s how to jump start your new life today … Hire a personal coach.”

Modern Maturity

“Increasingly, nonprofit executives and managers are finding coaches a terrific sounding board and source of help in a demanding and complex job.”

Nonprofit World

“The goal of coaching is the goal of good management: to make the most of an organization’s valuable resources.”

Harvard Business Review

“The Manchester survey of 140 companies shows nine in 10 executives believe coaching to be worth their time and dollars. The average return was more than $5 for each $1 spent.”

The Denver Post

“Coaching is the number two growth industry right behind IT (Information Technology) jobs, and it’s the number one home-based profession.”

Starts–Up Magazine

“What’s really driving the boom in coaching, is this: as we move from 30 miles an hour to 70 to 120 to 180……as we go from driving straight down the road to making right turns and left turns to abandoning cars and getting motorcycles…the whole game changes, and a lot of people are trying to keep up, learn how not to fall.”

Harvard Business School

“Executive coaches are not for the meek. They’re for people who value unambiguous feedback. All coaches have one thing in common, it’s that they are ruthlessly results-oriented.”

Fast Company

“If ever stressed out corporate America could use a little couch-time, it’s now. Trust in big companies is at an all-time low. Baby-boomers have been burned; Gen Xers aren’t expecting the Corporation to take care of them. Under the circumstances, employees are much likelier to go outside and get independent advice to help them be better managers.”

Kellogg Graduate School of Management

“Between 25 percent and 40 percent of Fortune 500 companies use executive coaches.”

The Hay Group

“Asked for a conservative estimate of the monetary payoff from the coaching they got, these managers described an average return of more than $100,000, or about six times what the coaching had cost their companies.”

Fortune Magazine

“Coaching has become a multi-billion dollar industry”

The Globe

“A coach helps you to discover your dreams, understand your strengths and gaps and your impact on others, and guides you through the steps in your learning plan.”

Daniel Goleman (Primal Leadership)