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What is Professional Coaching?
"Coaching is partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential." International Coach Federation

To read further on the topic of Coaching, please see Leadership Toolbox.

 
What is Executive Coaching?
Although we approach coaching with a holistic, 'whole person' perspective, Executive Coaching is a one-on-one, collaborative relationship between a coach and a client in a leadership role who is primarily focused on increasing their effectiveness in a business setting. Coach Kelly employs the 'lead from behind' methodology developed by The Hudson Institute, wherein the relationship is a partnership, with the coach facilitating an environment conducive to the client clarifying, aligning and accomplishing personal and professional goals, subsequently adding a greater sense of joy to their lives. We can work with you in a number of ways, including:
  • Independently (direct)
  • Through a coaching program sponsored by your company (sponsored)
  • With you and your team (leader & team development)
  • With your senior executive leadership team (leadership team development)

 
Is coaching right for you?
To be effective, professional coaching can require a significant investment of your time and energy. It also requires courage, resilience and dedication to the process. Before you invest, be sure you are ready to make the most of it by taking this complementary Coachability Quiz!
 
How is Executive Coaching Different from Consulting, Mentoring and Therapy?
It is not uncommon for a client to employ both a Coach and a Therapist or a Coach and a Consultant, while also facilitating an in-house Mentoring program. In fact, some Coaches, including Coach Kelly, provide both Coaching and Consulting services to their clients. The reason is that each specialty provides value geared toward a specific need. Sample differentiators include:

  • Executive Coaching -- facilitating positive changes in business behavior based on the client's present realities and future vision while assuming the client is 'whole' and capable of developing and implementing their own solutions
    (e.g., working  'through' the client, such as developing the ability "to fish")
  • Consulting -- providing industry, technical or organization-specific advice
    (e.g., providing "the fish" or solution)
  • Mentoring -- sharing experiences from a particular organization or area of expertise
    (e.g., how to "make it" in the ABC department of XYZ company)
  • Counselor/Therapist/Life Coach -- healing long-term, historic patterns
    (e.g., the past and/or deeply personal issues)
To determine if Coaching is right for you, take our complementary Coachability Quiz.

 
What are the benefits of coaching?
"Professional coaches provide an ongoing partnership designed to help clients produce fulfilling results in their personal and professional lives. Coaches help people improve their performance and enhance the quality of their lives." International Coach Federation.

What are professional, certified coaches trained to do?
"Coaches are trained to listen, to observe and to customize their approach to individual client needs. They seek to elicit solutions and strategies from the client; they believe the client is naturally creative and resourceful. The coach's job is to provide support to enhance the skills, resources, and creativity that the client already has." International Coach Federation (ICF).

It is important to ensure you are working with a certified, professional coach. This means the coach has invested significant effort to obtain coach-specific training, has completed a rigorous credentialing process, such as the training and certification programs governed by the ICF, and continues their own professional development through related continuing education unit requirements to maintain their credentials.

 
What is Organization Development?
A focused OD effort is often the glue for both realizing and sustaining positive change. The value of OD became widely recognized in the 1950's and has since matured into a set of methodologies designed to improve organizations on multiple levels, including structural, operational, cultural and technological, to effectively navigate and make the most of change.

"Organization Development is a body of knowledge and practice that enhances organizational performance and individual development, viewing the organization as a complex system of systems that exist within a larger system, each of which has its own attributes and degrees of alignment. OD interventions in these systems are inclusive methodologies and approaches to strategic planning, organization design, leadership development, change management, performance management, coaching, diversity, and work/life balance."
Organization Development Network


Engaging both the hearts and minds of team members is key to bringing about unprecedented results. Coach Kelly will guide you and your team to develop the environment to make this possible, and be there to coach your team to sustain it for the long term.

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