What is coaching?
Why does coaching work?
How does it work?
What is the coaching process?
Where do we coach?
What makes me a coach?

What is coaching?
Coaching is a partnership that provides support, structure, and focus to assist you in identifying, clarifying, and achieving your personal or professional goals and aspirations--faster and easier than would otherwise be possible.

Essentially, coaching guides you to set better goals, asks you to do more than you would do on your own, focuses you to better/more quickly produce results, and provides the tools, support, and structure to accomplish more.

Why does coaching work?
Synergy between the coach and client creates momentum.

You learn to set better goals--ones that are based upon your values and desires. The coach holds your vision, so you are drawn to your vision, rather than forced to push to get ahead.

You learn new skills that command action and create success.

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Coaches:
Build a partnership with you that provides support, structure, and focus, which allows you to identify, clarify, and achieve goals faster and easier than otherwise possible.

They also honor and accept you where you are right now and hold you to a higher standard than you hold yourself.

Ask more than you do of yourself and provide the tools, support, and structure that affords you the confidence and courage to move forward.

What is the coaching process?
Coaching is a process of inquiry and personal discovery that serves to build your level of awareness and responsibility. Professional coaches listen, observe, question, and elicit solutions and strategies that come from you, so they work for you.

Where do we coach?
Nearly all coaching sessions, worldwide, are held over the phone. We set up our appointments by phone, person, or email and from there, you call me, and we hold our coaching sessions over the phone. In between calls, you can email or we can set up Instant Messaging appointments for on-the-spot support.

However, if you live in Chicago and would prefer to hold sessions in person, we can make the necessary arrangements to do it that way as well.

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What makes me a coach?
I am a coach that answered my calling; I wanted to train with the best, so in 1999, I started taking classes, hired my first coach, and in 2000 enrolled in Coach U's Certified Coach Training Program...

Currently, I am a member of Coach U, the International Coach
Federation, The Evolutionary Institute, Coachville, and the Chicago Coaching Alliance, which all offer professional development training sessions, conferences, and cutting-edge programs in order to keep their members ahead of the curve. I am also proud to be a faculty member for Coach U and a trainer for The Evolutionary Institute, as well as a Mentor Coach for many of Coach U/Inc's Coaches in training.

Credentials include:
DePaul University M.A. IDS                                              June 2002
Coach U Certified Coach Graduate (CCG)                    April 2004
Coach U Certified Faculty Member                                 May  2004
ICF Professional Coach Certification (PCC)                  May  2005
The Evolutionary Institute Certified (TEI)                        March 2005
The Evolutionary Institute Trainer                             November 2005

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What else do you want to know?
If you have a question that has not been answered here or throughout the site, please send your question via the submission page.

I hope this helps you to better understand who, what, and how coaching works.

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