What Is Coaching?

The art of coaching is practiced worldwide in over 70 countries. The largest organization from which the coaching community is defined is the International Coach Federation. Here's how the ICF defines coaching:
     "Coaching is partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential. Professional coaches provide an ongoing partnership designed to help clients produce fulfilling results in their personal and professional lives. Coaches help people improve their performances and enhance the quality of their lives. Coaches are trained to listen, to observe and to customize their approach to individual client needs. They seek to elicit solutions and strategies from their client; they believe the client is naturally creative and resourceful. The coach's job is to provide support and enhance the skills, resources, and creativity that the client already has."
(Source: www.coachfederation.org)

My coaching practice is based on looking back where I've been in my professional life, and coaching people who are facing similar obstacles. Here's a sampling of my specialties:
- Helping entrepreneurs and small business owners to prioritize, stay focused, and get organized, in order to steepen their rate of growth.
- Helping service-oriented firms - their salespeople and managers - enhance their customer and client relationships, thus retaining and attracting more business
- Helping professionals who are dissatisfied with their current career or job find one that is more fulfilling, more rewarding, and befitting of their interests and skills
- Helping managers enhance the level and quality of communication amongst their staff in order to improve morale, productivity, and thus enhance revenue and profitability
- Helping design engineers who have been promoted to a managerial level make the transition from a technical role to a people role