Coaching

Looking for a coach?

As a coach, I work with people who are already successful and want to take their business or their life generally to the next level.

Whether you decide you want to work with me or someone else as your coach, I can guarantee you will achieve your dreams faster and more effectively with a coach to support you. It worked – and works – for me.

On this page I explain:

• my approach to coaching and how that might help you
• how it works
• what you need to invest in time and money
• complimentary consultation, to see if there is a fit

Coaching – one size does not fit all

If you’ve scanned the Internet for information on business, executive or life coaching, you will have figured out that there are quite a few different systems of coaching.

Because in coaching, as in clothing and in life, one size does not fit all.

I specialise in what some people call the “inner game” – the game where we challenge ourselves, in business, in leadership, in life generally.

Is that a game you are ready to play? Now? Or are you already playing it and want to get better at it, go further?

It’s definitely lonely at the top

Anyone who has been a business owner or in an executive position, especially as chief executive or managing director, knows in his or her bones the reality of the saying “it’s lonely at the top”. I understand that from first hand experience.

And if you are the person at the top and you are entrepreneurial, chances are you are someone with more ideas than you can implement in the foreseeable future – or even in a lifetime! That can be paralyzing or at least inhibiting.

That’s where I come in.

• I help you get clarity
• I help you get focus
• I help you get momentum

What I do

My starting point with every client is my belief that we all have untapped greatness within us. I see my role as a coach in terms of eliciting (“calling out”) that greatness within each client.

How does it work in practice?

Coaching is normally via a weekly session by phone, which is time-efficient for everyone.

I also use Skype, which means you as the client does not have to incur any monetary cost for the call. Depending on bandwidth considerations where you are, we can even use Skype video, or at least Skype audio.

A minimum three-month commitment is required. Experience shows that this is a necessary, basic timeframe to achieve positive, lasting change and reach worthwhile goals.

Your investment

I offer three standard coaching packages*  – I am happy to discuss which might work most effectively for you:

Leadership

Emphasis on expanding leadership capability, or meeting the challenge of stepping up to leadership, whether of your team, your company, your industry or organization. At least one session a month is dedicated to issues, practices, challenges and skill development for leadership. 4 x 60 minute, scheduled weekly sessions per month. Investment $1,320.00 per month.

Advanced
This option is ideal for the business owner, executive or solo entrepreneur who has already achieved a measure of success in business and life and is ready to go to the next level, or add another success-focused stream of activity to their program, e.g. a second business, a current hobby they want to invest in more seriously or in a more goal-oriented way. 3 x 60 minute, scheduled weekly sessions per month. Investment $990.00 per month.

Kick-Start
The Kick-Start package works for people at all levels of achievement, from starting out with a new business or career, raising the bar on an existing one, or developing more focused, sustained momentum with an established business or career. The expectations of commitment and willingness to grow and change are no less than for the other two packages. 3 x 45 minute scheduled weekly sessions per month. Investment $742 per month.

All packages include, as part of the service and at no extra charge, email and instant messaging contact in between sessions (for “short and sharp”, low usage and at an additional cost when it is agreed mutually in advance that the amount of time involved warrants such a charge).

Face-to-face coaching is also available, with additional costs for the additional time and travel involved.

One-off Laser Session

In addition to the three coaching packages outlined above, and subject to timetable availability, I can also offer to select clients a one-off laser session. As the name implies, laser coaching entails a highly-focused session, which typically focuses on one key issue and in which my aim as the coach is to help you as the client “go deep” into the issue and get to what I call “the story behind the story”. It’s in the nature of laser coaching that there has to be a basic level of “fit” between client and coach, so no one should feel offended if a coach who does this declines to do so in a particular instance. Investment $350.

So after all that, are you ready for an exploratory conversation?

If you are considering being coached, do get in touch now for a complimentary exploratory consultation by phone. This will usually be for no more than 30 minutes, at a mutually agreed time. At the end of that time, we will both know whether there’s a good basis for us to go forward with the coaching process. It’s not a coaching session: more of a chat to see whether or not there’s a fit; no obligation, on either side, to proceed.

No change, no progress

All effective coaching results in change and growth. If you don’t feel a need to change, or you are not ready to change, then coaching might not be what you need right now. If you are simply reluctant to change, that’s human – don’t let that natural reluctance stop you finding out whether coaching might be just what can help you right now.

Why hire me?

False modesty won’t help here. The short answer is – because I’m good at what I do.

I recognise quickly who I can coach and who I can’t and if I don’t agree to coach you that could be about me rather than about you, so don’t take it personally.

I also believe you will be able to tell pretty quickly too, whether I’m the coach for you. Because I believe strongly that each of us can tell if a particular coach is right for us at a particular phase or for particular needs. If, after talking with me you feel that there is not a “fit”, just tell me and be assured I won’t take it personally. And I hope you will be ok with the idea that, if I feel I’m not the right person to coach you, I will tell you.

To give you a quick idea of what I have to offer:

• I’ve been a senior executive in the government sector, with responsibilities in policy development and the planning and management of multi-million dollar programs in cultural development, education and major events
• I’ve had my own business, in communications consultancy and more recently in coaching, for just over twenty years
• I understand how companies and individual entrepreneurs can use new media, especially blogging and other social media, to help grow their business
• I’ve been trained through the Coachville Schools of Coaching and am a current member of the Coachville community of coaches, a foundation member of the Creative Skills Training Council, Asia-Pacific and Australia and served on the Board of Governors of the International Association of Coaching (IAC) till end December 2009.

What others say

You can check out some testimonials.

Your next step

Would you agree that, for any coaching to be successful, you and your coach must be able to communicate effectively? I certainly believe so. That’s why I provide a 30 minute, complimentary, exploratory consultation before any actual coaching begins. It’s your opportunity to get any questions answered and for both of us to establish that we are able to work together. To register now for your complimentary initial consultation, please use the Contact page on this site.

*(Note: all investments listed on this page are in US Dollars.  Prices for Australia are comparable, with GST included.)