Personal & Career Coaching

Why hire a coach?

For the same reason athletes need a coach - to improve performance, to benefit from the objective perspective of a professional confidante who is working with your personal goals in mind.

The coach's role

We are confidential, objective, experienced advocates with your best interests at heart. Our work is to help you appreciate your gifts, leverage your natural strengths, recognize potential blind spots and consider areas of development. A good coach is always honest with you, completely confidential and is often able to see what you cannot.

How it works

Our work with you will begin by understanding how you prefer to communicate and make decisions. We use various tools, including the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and 360° interviews with your colleagues, if necessary, to help us understand you and for you to understand yourself. We will conduct regular, confidential conversations about work-related issues or situations that trouble you or that you find challenging. We will not tell you what to do, but rather help you find the answers yourself. This approach will help you understand your work style better so that you can use what you've learned on an ongoing basis.

How long it takes

This varies depending on your goals and the progress we make together. We suggest meeting once a week for several weeks and then evaluate timing from there. Some of our clients, after the first few weeks, want to space the appointments farther apart so they have time to practice what they've learned. We have clients who, even after a year's on-and-off work, still call on us for guidance.

How progress is measured

Real improvement in performance takes time. While we may set checkpoints along the way, you will know that you've progressed in a number of ways - by meeting your goals, by surveying colleagues for feedback, by recognizing the results yourself.

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