Your coach will use the fine art of listening and questioning to support your growth.
When we start working together, I think it’s important for us to walk through what a coaching session will look like and have a clear understanding of the coaching relationship. Having worked with business coaches in the past, I never had anyone break this down, nor explain how a coach differed from a consultant (or even a teacher or therapist for that matter).
With this knowledge, the expectations of the coach and the client will be best defined to foster better outcomes as well as inputs.
My number one goal is for you to reach yours.
As your coach, my job is to bring out the best in you and provide insight only where appropriate. You are a powerful, whole, creative and resourceful leader with access to answers when you look within. A large part of my job is to listen closely, and to ask powerful questions.
During a coaching session, we will establish a goal that we’re working towards, and I will listen curiously, and ask a TON of questions designed to help you think, dig deep, shift perspectives, and push beyond your internal limiting beliefs, identify self-sabotaging tendencies, and envision and design a path success as you define it.
I have to admit that when I began my training, I was puzzled by this? I asked, “So we just ask questions?”
The answer to this is “no.” We don’t just ask questions, although we do ask a LOT of questions.
As you explore the answers, I will observe and follow you, listening in the moment for the best direction to propel you forward. Sometimes, I’ll bring the heat. It’s all in the name of you finding the fullness of yourself and reaching beyond. In this, you journey to where you will do your best work, leave your mark on the world, and live your best life.
Some of these questions will be hard to answer. Some are open-ended and allow you to find creative solutions to ordinary challenges. Some might push beyond your comfort zone. At any time, you are free to pass on questions; you drive the coaching session in the direction that is best for you.
We’ll discuss the resources that you will need and who or what can support you. We’ll define measures of accountability to keep you on track. Finally, once you feel that we have reached the goal for the current session, we will close for the day. You might have homework between sessions, or you might leave with insight to inform your next move in support of your longer term objectives.
Finally, you will leave the session with a well-defined action step or a powerful mindset shift. Over time, through the coaching relationship you’ll develop new habits, understand yourself better, push through those invisible yet palpable limits and even begin to form powerful self-questions.
It is my hope that demystifying the coaching process leads my clients to participate more fully in their transformations and that it fosters more buy-in to the co-creation of fantastic outcomes. I fully believe in the fullness of my clients and am thrilled to work in tandem with such powerful people as they broaden their impact on the world around them.
Schedule a call with me and take the next step toward loving what you do.
Michele Roberts Coaching 