What is Coaching?
Coaching is an on-going partnership where challenge, exploration, discovery, support, accountability and results motivate you to create the personal and professional life you desire.
What does a coach do?
A Life Coach helps the client discover who they truly are and together they draft a design to live their best life. Together, the coach and client explore options, set goals, overcome obstacles, challenge perspectives, discover fulfillment, and achieve balance. Simply put, a coach helps their client to consciously design their life, make the most of opportunities, resolve challenges, and experience fulfillment.
- Checks with you weekly about your goals and progress
- Listens for your possibilities
- Helps you identify actions to overcome blocks and barriers
- Encourages you to take steady steps forward
- Holds the vision of what you and your life can be
- Celebrates your successes along the way
"I have had the great pleasure of working with Suzanne as my coach off and on since August 2006. Along with my partner, I recently took a risk and opened a Bed & Breakfast. Suzanne has enabled me to focus, to stretch and to "get out of my own way". I appreciate the clarity and perspective that Suzanne brings to the process. Suzanne has offered new ways and ideas to grow my business. She also is the first person to remind me of my success when I am experiencing doubt. I highly recommend Suzanne and the experience of working with her as a life coach."
Kim Wanamaker
Green Rocks Inn
www.greenrocksinn.com
Is coaching therapy?
Therapy moves you from dysfunctional to functional.
Coaching moves you from functional to exceptional.
Coaching is not therapy or counseling. They appear alike in that you meet and talk regularly.
Coaching is based on the client taking action, and coaching sessions focus on identifying those
actions the client will take during the next week. If you're looking to relate coaching to something
else, coaching is much more like a personal trainer/client relationship.
One of the basic precepts of coaching is that the client has his/her own answers, and coaches simply
assist the client in finding and clarifying their own answers.
If, during the course of a coaching partnership, I recognize that a client needs therapy or counseling,
I will immediately refer them and ask that they get the help they need. Sometimes, this means that
coaching must be suspended; other times, we can continue to coach while the client gets therapy. Once
you've tried coaching, you'll more clearly recognize the distinction between these two professions.
"Suzanne has empowered me to create the Coaching business of my dreams. She brings clarity, focus and motivation to our sessions. Her energy and wisdom have inspired me to step out of the box and become the woman that God created me to be. Suzanne is always accessible and quick to respond. Thanks Suzanne for helping make dreams come true!!"
Carolyn Dennis
www.PowerfulGraceLife.com
"Suzanne has provided wonderful tools to point me in the right direction for both my life and business. Her words of wisdom stay in my head as mantras to keep me focused."
Judy Kovacevih
www.SouthernAssist.com