These are many and varied! But some typical examples for individuals include:
Teams benefiting from a coach could have the following situations…
Your team:
The first meeting is usually about 2 hours in duration. Sometimes we might have an initial 3-way meeting involving the coach, coachee and line manager to ensure that we are all clear about what the organisation wants from the relationship. Having got to know each other we will then normally produce together a “contract” for the relationship which covers such issues as:
Yes. In one-to-one coaching engagements our starting assumption is that the content of the relationship and what we discuss is confidential. However, sometimes coachees are happy that the coach can provide feedback on progress to a line manager or HR.
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The first few meetings might be fortnightly or even weekly. But on average a typical frequency is once a month.
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This can be any combination of your office, our offices, a third party location (e.g. a hired meeting room, hotel, personal club, coffee shop or a park!) or on the telephone/Skype.
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Typically 3 – 6 months. But some of our relationships have extended to 18 months or more.
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Yes. You will have the option of working directly with lead coach Bob Empson. And we also have a network of experienced coaches who can be available for you in the UK and numerous other countries around the world.
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Executive and performance coaching. This is what Coach4Impact does. Executive coaching is a one-to-one relationship and process to facilitate self-awareness and greater insight and to inspire and support personal change and development. We refer to our style of coaching as “performance coaching” because we lay particular emphasis on personal change and development which will lead to sustainable performance improvement.
Team coaching. Coach4Impact also provides team coaching. This is broadly the same idea as executive/performance coaching except it applies to a team. However, a particular focus will usually relate to the development and strengthening of the team so that it can perform effectively. Team coaching can be particularly valuable for: senior teams; new teams; under-performing teams; project teams; and teams which need to respond quickly to changing environments. Team compositions, relationships, communications and behaviours are often important issues which need to be addressed.
Mentoring. The main differences between mentoring and coaching are that mentoring relationships:
Counselling/psychotherapy. The British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP) defines counselling as: “Counselling and psychotherapy are umbrella terms that cover a range of talking therapies. They are delivered by trained practitioners who work with people over a short or long term to help them bring about effective change or enhance their wellbeing.” Coach4Impact does not offer counselling services; but where appropriate we can put clients in touch with specialists.
Life coaching. Life coaching is about supporting and enabling clients to improve the quality of their lives and their well-being through setting and achieving life/personal goals. Life coaching can encompass a wide range of issues such as personal relationships, lifestyle, life-balance, career, health and nutrition. Life coaching is not usually provided within work environments and Coach4Impact does not offer it (although, of course, there is sometimes a personal element which we need to understand when it might be having a significant influence on work performance).