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What Is Coaching?
Think of your life or business as a house and you want to make some additions, changes, repairs. Do you repair the broken windows, replace the roof, add a room, remodel the kitchen? Too often in our lives we wish we could repair our own foundation but settle for slapping on a coat of paint. Coaching helps you find the weak spots in that foundation and fix them!
You will learn to clarify your personal and/or professional goals, and define what success and happiness really mean to you. All of this may sound simple, but it isn’t so easy to change old habits and views. That is where a coach can help.
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Who I Coach
I provide executive and life coaching to clients seeking a variety of goals. Clients come to coaching because they seek more of what everyone wants – happiness, freedom, energy, and success. Many of my clients appear “successful” by any observer’s standards, but they sense something missing or desire something more, in their personal lives, their professional lives. Some have a business or career that has grown stagnant and needs a change of direction. Others are seeking more fulfillment in their lives or a lot more fun! My clients find that coaching puts them on a path to improve their own health and vitality, and find more joy and creativity in their lives.
How I Coach
Coaching takes place on the telephone 3 to 4 times a month for 30-40 minutes each call. In addition, clients are invited to call or email me between our scheduled calls for advice, problem-solving or because they can’t wait to share a success with me. I enjoy providing this extra service and do not bill for additional time of this type. The context of a confidential coaching relationship provides the safe space for clients to uncover their deepest wishes, fears, and hopes and turn them into reality. How?
I ask probing questions about the life or career path you really want.
I challenge you to stretch yourself beyond potentially limiting beliefs and habits that keep you stuck.
I provide easy to use assessment tools.
We strategize and solve problems.
I offer strategies and information based on my business and life experiences as well as from other valuable resources.
I provide continuous support and encouragement.
We administer assessment tools such as DiSCTM.
I create an environment in which your personal and professional growth is the number one focus.
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Client Examples
Tony, a restaurant owner, challenged his inhibiting belief systems, developed leadership communication skills, then designed and implemented a personnel infrastructure to support a growing business. More…
Elaine is a business owner. After clarifying the kind of a life she wanted, she began to change a draining service business to one that supports her vision for her life. More…
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Tony, a Toronto restaurateur, wanted a coach. He was working 18 hour days at his business, yet he still was not making enough money, he was not having any fun, nor did his business seem to be achieving the standards he wanted it to have. When he told me he did not know if he and his partner had the same goals a light bulb went off in my head. In fact, they had never sat down to discuss what their goals were for the business. It reminds me of clients who present with marital problems, particularly in the early years of marriage. They have fun, they have great chemistry. But they never sat down together to discuss goals, needs, values.
If they are lucky, our couple (or business partners) find themselves in the same groove and go sailing into the sunset. But more often than not, they start bumping heads or pulling in different directions. The first flush of romance wears off. Or one partner starts to “change.” Communication breaks down. But there is help.
So where we begin? We agreed that he needed to begin to pinpoint which goals were important to him so be could articulate them to his partner. We also agreed to work on his communication skills to get his thoughts across more effectively. But there was something more. Was he trying to get some of his personal needs met by his business and by his partner?
He began to realize he had personal needs he had never acknowledged to himself that were driving his behavior and frustration. We began by identifying which of his unmet needs were causing him trouble, then strategized on how to meet them. After he identified his dreams and the standards he deemed essential for his company, we worked to enhance his communication skills in order to step into the leadership position in his company he was destined to hold.
Elaine came to me feeling conflicted, trying to decide between developing her small business or taking a job in the same field. She liked the nature of her business but it was not profitable and she felt drained. The job, on the other hand, would provide steady income doing work she thought she enjoyed. While she did not like the idea of going to an office everyday, she relished the idea of working in a setting with other people, rather than the isolation she felt working by herself.
Through questions, assessments and assignments, what became clear was that Elaine was a social person, and derived a lot of energy from the day-to-day socializing that goes on among coworkers. However, she also cherished freedom and flexibility, two important values she knew she would have to sacrifice by going to a 9-5. She also treasured the creative outlet having her own business encouraged. During what became the final interview for this job, Elaine brought this new awareness of what she needed and was able to stack up the requirements and opportunities of this job against what she now knew were her values.
The outcome? She decided against the job and instead, we are plugging up the energy drains in her business, including more collaborative and social activities in her life and business, and maximizing those areas of her business that provide the greatest flexibility with the highest profits.
Marian Morgan
Life & Business Coaching
Miami, FL 33137
Ph.+1.305.861.9155
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