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Would I Benefit From Coaching?

Mind Your Career Webinar


Planned Topics• Differences between coaching, consulting, mentoring, managing, therapy, training, and just plain friendship.

• Basic logistics of what it costs, how much time it takes, how to know if it is working, and how long the results last.

• Finding, selecting, and getting started with an executive coach. • What topics and concerns are best addressed with coaching.

• Typical components of a coaching conversation.


Ad Hoc Topics

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Additional Resources

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Coaching is Growing


Coaching is Growing

Me !


Coaching is in Demand


Coaching is Effective• 96% of organizations saw individual

performances improve after they introduced coaching.

• 92% reported improvements in leadership and management effectiveness

• 77% of the respondents indicated that coaching had a significant or very significant impact on at least one of nine business measures.

60% improved productivity53% increased employee satisfaction


Coaching is not…


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• Managing• Therapy• Advice


Questions

What questions do you have so far?




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• Managing• Therapy• Advice


What Coaching Does 1 of 2

I get input from many sources and experts but everyone else is telling me what they would do in my place.

Tony seems to draw out from me my own best thinking and helps me see what is best for myself.

Tony has a way of truly transforming my thinking to achieve positive results.

—Nancy Belmont


What Coaching Does 1 of 2Tony’s coaching helped me

look at the world from an entirely new perspective.

After years of trying to fix “what’s wrong” in my business and life, he’s helped me learn to pursue what’s possible.

The change in perspective has made all the difference. results.

—Josh Weidman


A Quick Experience That’s Similar to Being Coached


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A Quick Experience That’s Similar to Being CoachedStill one foot high and one foot wide — but just half the surface area.

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A Quick Experience That’s Similar to Being CoachedOur knowledge is limited & limiting.

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A Quick Experience That’s Similar to Being CoachedOur know-edge is limited & limiting.

Coaching provides the Do-Edge.™


Coaching is…


Coaching is……an intentional conversation

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Coaching is……an intentional conversation that provides an alternative

worldview…



worldviewwhich allows the client to take appropriate actions…service of



worldviewwhich allows the client to take

appropriate actions in service of his or her chosen possibility.



worldviewwhich allows the client to take

appropriate actions in service of his or her chosen possibility.


Another Quick Experience


What is this?

What is this?


What is this?

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Topics Best Addressedwith Coaching



• The Gap.



• The Gap.• Groundhog Day.



• The Gap.• Groundhog Day.• Choice vs Stuckness.



• The Gap.• Groundhog Day.• Choice vs Stuckness.• Feel like life or career is

happeningto you instead of by you.



• The Gap.• Groundhog Day.• Choice vs Stuckness.• Feel like life or career is

happeningto you instead of by you.

• Dearth of love, joy, and freedom.



Getting better at being human.


Basic Logistics$ Cost Contact Time

Calendar Time



Calendar TimeHow Enduring?



Calendar TimeHow Enduring?


Still see it?

What is this?


Questions

What questions do you have so far?


Components of a Coaching Conversation


Components of a Coaching Conversation• Clearing• Check Results• Introduce Distinctions• Insights &

Commitment



Commitment



Commitment



Commitment


Finding, selecting, and getting started with an executive coach.



• Clear Intention. Your Why.



• Clear Intention. Your Why.• Referral — or Google Search.



• Clear Intention. Your Why.• Referral — or Google Search.• Coached for similar results.



• Clear Intention. Your Why.• Referral — or Google Search.• Coached for similar results.• Compatible — but not too comfortable.




• Free or money-back initial conversation.




• Free or money-back initial conversation.


Planned Topics• Differences between coaching, consulting, mentoring, managing, therapy, training, and just plain friendship.

• Basic logistics of what it costs, how much time it takes, how to know if it is working, and how long the results last.

• Finding, selecting, and getting started with an executive coach. • What topics and concerns are best addressed with coaching.

• Typical components of a coaching conversation.


Questions

Last call for questions on any topic covered today.





Would I Benefit From Coaching?

Mind Your Career Webinar


Awareness & Choice

Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space lies our freedom and power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and freedom.

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