FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
- What Is Coaching?
- How Does Coaching Work?
- How Long is the Coaching Engagement?
- How Often Do I Meet with My Coach and What’s Included?
- Does It Matter Where I Live?
- Are There Different Types of Coaching?
- Why Coaching and Will It Help?
- Is This a Confidential Process?
- How Do I Get Started?
- What is the Investment?
What is Coaching?
Coaching is a powerful alliance between client and coach, focusing on motivation, development, and creation of possibilities. It’s an experience allowing goals to be envisioned and action taken to create a desired personal and professional life. Our tools equip individuals and organizations with the ability to maximize and utilize their strengths rather than weaknesses and opportunities rather than barriers. The result is people at the top of their game and in touch with their inner athletes, intellectuals, adventurers, artists, and leaders. When talents and inner attributes are fully realized and integrated, work becomes aligned with passion and individuals and their organizations thrive.
How Does Coaching Work?
Our coaching programs are designed for current and emerging leaders, entrepreneurs, and high-potential talent at all levels. By integrating the study of human behavior with proven business strategies, we assist clients with identifying and leveraging strengths to accomplish personal, professional, and business goals. Our programs provide a solid, yet flexible springboard to catapult leaders into performance and success beyond their expectations.
Because we don’t believe in a one-size-fits-all approach to coaching, each of our packages are tailored to the needs of our individual clients. All of our programs, however, follow a four-step process to ensure comprehensiveness.
Stage One: Evaluation
Our coaching begins with a comprehensive evaluation of you and/or your organization’s strengths and areas for growth. We use a combination of interview questions, questionnaires, assessments, and 360-degree feedback assessments. We are also qualified to give measures such as the Myers-Briggs-Type-Indicator®, Firo-B, BarOn EQ-i, and other commonly known instruments. This initial phase of personal and professional assessment is crucial in identifying areas for growth, change, and goal setting within the context of desired outcomes.
Stage Two: Goal Setting
The next phase in the coaching process is to create a clear action plan outlining coaching goals and steps needed to attain these mutually agreed upon objectives. Creating a detailed plan for this process organizes the coaching experience and propels the client towards their goals.
Stage Three: Action
Informed by the data gathered from personal and professional assessments and with an action plan in place, we provide in-person and/or telephone coaching sessions tailored to the needs of our clients. We hold clients accountable to outlined goals and progress toward objectives will occur during and between sessions. Throughout the course of the coaching engagement, the client and their coach will evaluate and modify the action plan as needed. An evaluation of progress toward objectives and the coaching process occurs throughout to ensure utilized strategies are effective.
Stage Four: Follow-Up
A verbal or written report concludes the coaching process. This report outlines the coaching experience with recommendations for further growth areas and goal setting.
How Long is the Coaching Engagement?
We offer 180 day (six month) coaching programs because we’ve found this to be the ideal time period for sustained change and optimal success in achieving goals. If you wish to continue the coaching process, we’ll customize a monthly program or a maintenance package suiting your needs. We also offer existing or past clients the opportunity to purchase individual sessions if there’s an issue that needs to be addressed. These sessions are only available to clients who have completed our coaching program or one of our consultation services.
The length of time varies for the services offered for optimizing business and organizations such as team building, group coaching, executive assessment and business planning and development. Please contact us to discuss your organization’s needs.
How Often Do I Meet With My Coach and What’s Included?
The Optimizing Individuals coaching packages (executive/leadership coaching, entrepreneurial coaching, personal and business coaching for independent and small group professionals, coaching the next generation of leaders, and personal coaching) span for a minimum of six months and include:
- Two 60 minute coaching sessions per month (in person or via telephone) with the first session lasting 90 minutes for reviewing the evaluation/assessments and action planning
- Comprehensive evaluation and action planning
- Unlimited access to your coach via email or phone in-between sessions
- Unlimited review of documents via email
- Resources and tips mailed or emailed throughout the coaching engagement
- Unlimited access to the "Member’s Only" section of EquilibriaCoaching.com
When contacting your coach in-between sessions via email or telephone, you can expect to hear back within 24 to 48 hours. This communication is such an integral part of the process that we limit the number of clients we work with to ensure we’ll be available when our clients need us. Please contact us now to find out more about how these services will assist you and your company.
The "Optimizing Businesses and Organizations" services (team building, group coaching, executive assessment, and business planning and development) are specific to each company. Please call to inquire about these services.
Does It Matter Where I Live?
Not at all. We have national and international clients. Coaching can be done in-person or on the telephone depending on your needs and preferences. If you’d like us to lead a training session, workshop, seminar, and/or consultation with your staff, we’ll be happy to travel to you.
Are There Different Types Of Coaching?
Yes. There are two main types of coaching. The first is executive and leadership coaching and the second is personal or life coaching. Executive and leadership coaching is often sought to help identify, deepen awareness of, and hone strengths that serve as a foundation to shape and enhance leadership skills. Coaches working with leaders, executives, and top and emerging talent assist them with developing insight into potential barriers in their working styles, enhance their emotional intelligence, and improve decision making. Coaches serve as a thought partner to encourage, support, motivate, drive, and enhance the leadership experience of clients.
On the other hand, personal or life coaching is usually sought out by individuals during significant life transitions. Coaches assist clients by helping them gravitate toward a way of being that embodies the preferred life they envision. This type of coaching can be incredibly powerful and serve as a catalyst for identifying and shaping a desired life shaped by personal values and a created life vision.
Why Coaching and Will It Help?
Coaching is a transformational tool helping individuals find and hone their personal and professional direction by enhancing the knowledge of their strengths. Although most talented individuals understand how they can excel and know what they want, we serve as thought partners in the coaching process to help clarify and implement a vision in order to enhance personal and professional skills.
Is This a Confidential Process?
Absolutely. We take this aspect of our relationship with clients seriously. What is said within the coaching engagement remains within the boundaries of the coaching relationship. If we are hired by an organization to provide coaching to individual employees, we clearly identify and agree upon, with all involved parties, shared and confidential information.
How Do I Get Started?
If you’re interested in coaching or consultation and would like to learn more, please contact us now to schedule a complimentary 30-minute introductory meeting. During this meeting, we’ll ask you about your goals for coaching and/or consultation, answer questions, determine which program best suits your needs, and together make a determination if we’re qualified to assist you.
What Is the Investment?
Our coaching and consultation services are priced based on your individual or organization’s needs. Please contact us for a complimentary 30-minute introductory meeting so we can determine your goals for the coaching and/or consultation engagement, answer any questions you may have, and discuss pricing. If you would like us to travel to your organization, additional costs may be incurred.
