What to Expect from Your Personal Coach

CONTEXT

to provide a valuable, outside perspective
complete confidentiality
the opportunity to occasionally “vent”
to observe the line between coaching and therapy
to show genuine concern for your welfare and future
to demonstrate respect for your perceptions, learning style
to be “present and flexible,” attentive to your needs during the coaching session
to help you achieve your goals

to “role-play” situations you want to rehearse before you attempt them
to bring out the best in you, and challenge you to stretch your “comfort zone”
to tailor your sessions to your needs
to communicate the goals of your coaching agreement
to establish clear agreements and keep promises
to integrate and build on your ideas and suggestions
to ask questions that evoke discovery, insight, commitment and action
to help you see new viewpoints and find new possibilities for action
to brainstorm with you and assist you with defining actions that enable you to demonstrate, practice and deepen new learning
to challenge your assumptions and perspectives to provoke new ideas
to help you stay on track between sessions by holding attention on the coaching plan and outcomes, agreed-upon course of action and topics for future sessions

to provide information and tools that are useful to you
to provide you with resources that you probably wouldn't have found or sought on your own
to be accessible when needed as a sounding board