What Can Coaching Do for You?
On their website, the International Coaching Federation (ICF) defines coaching as “partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential." The key terms in this definition, as ICF sees it, are "partnering, thought-provoking, and maximize potential." These italicized elements set professional coaching apart from other supportive professions in the sense that their interplay is forward-looking. ICF credentialed coaches must demonstrate high proficiency in these 8 clusters of core competencies: see https://coachfederation.org/core-competencies. By employing a range of relational and practical skills, a good coach can help their client:
- enhance their personal awareness,
- discover fresh insights,
- align their goals, priorities and decisions with the motivating center of their values and sense of calling or unique vocation,
- confront limiting beliefs,
- change unhelpful behaviors,
- determine actions conducive to the client’s stated targets and growth goals, and
- define their own desired means of accountability.
PLEASE NOTE: While I strive to activate ICF's core competencies as a client-focused coach, I do offer selective mentoring in leadership areas where I have knowledge or expertise. If I discern my client's well-being may be under threat, or if their project appears to be in jeopardy or undergoing dangerous drift, I may ask permission to put on the mentoring hat for short bursts of input. But I try to quickly resume a coaching (drawing out) posture to allow my client to respond to any input in whatever way they like.
Christian Coaching Principles
As a coach I'm ever trying to unleash that unique God-instilled potential and calling that burns within the soul of every leader. This stewardship acknowledges that the Spirit of Christ is always nudging humans toward Love and its Source. And so I constantly seek to help leaders discover and respond to the Presence and work of God. Creative Results Management, who helped me attain my PCC level credential with ICF, describes the guiding “coaching assumptions” for this kind of coaching (Source: CRM's Core Coaching Skills Certificate manual (2013), p. 38):
- The Holy Spirit speaks to people directly through many means. [God] is the best source for insights, ideas, strategies, and action points. Coaches help the client to hear the Holy Spirit more clearly and support them to respond well.
- All people have a holistic calling – being and doing – and may need additional clarity and growth in one or more aspects of their calling.
- Client-generated insights, ideas, strategies, and action points are most relevant and useful to the client who immediately owns them.
- By using special communication techniques, tools, and models, coaches can significantly speed up and improve the quality of the client’s insights, ideas, strategies, and action points.
- Clients are mentally and emotionally fit enough to work through challenges on their own with some coaching help.
- Clients are responsible for their physical, mental and emotional well-being during coaching sessions, including their choices and decisions. Clients can choose to discontinue coaching at any time.
Who Do I Serve?
Generally, team or organizational leaders, pioneers and church starters.
Mode and frequency
I generally coach clients via Zoom or phone. Sessions run from 45 mins to 60 mins max. Typically we meet monthly or bi-weekly order to preserve continuity and forward momentum, but my clients are welcome to go at whatever pace and duration that best serves their needs. Periodically, I review with my clients how they are experiencing the coaching, as I strive to give them the greatest value-added over time.
Fees
Generally, I charge $125 per session (based on PCC level coaching), adjusted according to the means and the degree of load-bearing leadership a given client shoulders. I invoice clients on a monthly basis, and payment can be made by check, Paypal or credit card.
In order to keep this kind of Christ-centered coaching accessible, I do offer some pro-bono or deeply-discounted coaching, depending on a given client's situation. Interested parties can contact me personally to explore possibilities.
Who Do I Serve?
Generally, team or organizational leaders, pioneers and church starters.
Mode and frequency
I generally coach clients via Zoom or phone, according to the client's preference. Sessions run from 45 mins to 60 mins max.
Typically we meet at least monthly or even bi-weekly, for the sake of continuity and forward momentum. Periodically, I will review with the client on how they are experiencing the coaching., so that I might give them the greatest value-added over time. My clients are welcome to go at whatever pace and duration that best serves their needs.
Fees
Generally, $125 per session (based on PCC level coaching), adjusted according to the means and the degree of load-bearing leadership a given client shoulders.
I invoice my clients on a monthly basis (if a bi-weekly format), or shortly after each coaching session (if monthly). Payment can be made by check, Paypal or credit card.
I do offer some pro-bono or deeply-discounted coaching, depending on a given client's situation. Interested parties can contact me personally to explore possibilities and/or be added to my waiting list.
Curious? Need to know more?