10 Ways To Know You're Getting Great Value From Your Coach

Coaching is a unique methodology. It's a process designed jointly by coach and client.

It is not directive advice, counseling, or therapy, and may address overall goals, specific projects, or general conditions in the client's life or profession.

1. YOUR VISION

The conversation holds the greater vision for your life yet stays in the place of where you are in the moment.

The coach can address your immediate situation while also holding the bigger vision you've shared. Your coach stays curious and questions in a way that naturally expands your thinking.

2. YOUR VOICE

You feel as though the coach really knows what you are saying even when you can't express it as well as you would like.

The coach truly listens and allows you to feel understood and heard. The conversation is fluid and does not end in semantics or self–help jargon.

You look forward to the conversation even if you suspect it may be uncomfortable. No matter how it goes, you trust by the end, you'll be in a better place moving forward.

3. YOUR PROGRESS

You have a sense of moving forward and letting go of old ideas and beliefs that hold you back.

You have a strong feeling you're making progress. You're not talking in circles, and the coach knows how to zero in and keep the conversation focused on your needs, boundaries, and values no matter how much or how easily it could go off track. Each conversation helps in some way to move you forward.

4. YOUR TRUTH

The coach is a clean slate.

Your coach hears your words with no agenda and no bias and is open to different points of view. Rather than telling, making suggestions, providing solutions, or treating symptoms, the coach invites you to discover and explore things from a different perspective at a deeper level.

The coach helps you reveal YOUR truth. A plan isn't created without your permission.

5. YOUR CONFIDENCE

You can't ever remember how you were thinking before the conversation.

The conversation is stimulating, invigorating, and in some way alters your mindset. You leave the conversation with a different way of thinking that empowers you to move forward. You have a new direction and/or a new perspective.

As a result, you feel more confident about managing challenges. You are able to proceed from a new mindset with different thoughts and inspiring ideas.

6. YOUR VIEWS

The coach is able to help you make permanent changes, not temporary ones.

A new perspective propels you forward, not just in your current situation but also in future challenges. The nature of the conversation supports you in making internal and emotional shifts as well as intellectual ones. The coach helps you to experience things from your greater truths and extends your capacity to express your authenticity.

7. YOUR TRUST

You have great trust and rapport with your coach.

You feel free to share and your coach creates a safe atmosphere. Although it may be uncomfortable, you are able to admit personal embarrassments and painful secrets because your desire to lay it on the line is greater than your desire to avoid and resist your own progress.

8. YOUR GROWTH

The coach is willing to share and be honest even when it's difficult.

Your work together empowers you to grow, see the truth, and dismantle fears, so you can free yourself from self–imposed limits. The coach is able to point out when your thinking is based on perception rather than truth, thus allowing you to explore and expand possibilities.

The coach doesn't make you wrong – but rather helps you to see another perspective, another angle, or another point of view.

9. YOUR ANCHOR

The coach is truly on your side, unconditionally open, totally objective, and accessible.

Your coach is your advocate and listens to the best part of you. When you reveal yourself, it is a sign that the best part of you is being championed and supported. You can engage your coach even at times not previously scheduled. Making an extra request of time and accessibility is considered and honored.

10. YOUR STRENGTHS

The coach is able to help you make both short-term and long-term, permanent changes.

When you are faced with new challenges, coaching conversations continue or are recalled in your mind and you are able to use ideas, principles, insights, realizations, and 'aha's' from previous conversations. Due to your ongoing conversations, you are more likely to experiment and take advantage of more opportunities.

My coaching services may include setting priorities, establishing goals, identifying resources, brainstorming, creating action plans, asking clarifying questions, and providing models, examples, and in-the-moment skills training.

My promise to you is that all information you provide me, as well as all representatives of my company, will be kept strictly confidential, as permissible by law.

Throughout our coaching relationship, I will engage in direct and personal conversations, which will include asking you explicit questions, making requests, and serving as a mentor offering explicit advice and direction.

The purpose of our work together is to help you craft a new vision, gain a clear direction, set goals, create a plan, brainstorm, remind you of your own intentions and needs, and guide and support you to realize them.

Success Stories

"Elizabeth is an excellent coach who helped me in several areas of my personal and professional life. She is warm, open, encouraging, and non-judgmental and her questions really helped me uncover the root causes of my conflict. I learned a lot about myself and was motivated to act almost immediately following our coaching sessions."

Lauren B., Non-Profit Director

Atlanta, GA

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