What is Life Coaching
Coaching is a journey of transformation where one person helps another. It
is a relationship which is carefully designed between the coach and you, the client, to assist you to bring to life your agenda, your hopes and your dreams. Coaching is intended to help you reach your potential in terms of who you want to be or what you want to accomplish.
What Can Life Coaching Help With?
Life coaching can help with a wide range of future-oriented outcomes. These may be related to your work, relationships, life/work balance, or general contentment.
Specific examples include:
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Improved performance at work as seen in greater productivity
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Improved work performance in terms of better efficiency
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Increased self-confidence
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Improved relationships (more cooperation, less conflict, etc.)
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Improved communication skills
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Better balance of time spent at work vs. at home
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Improved time management at home
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Improved effectiveness of a working team
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Improved physical health and emotional well-being
Life Coaching vs. Psychotherapy/Counselling
Coaching...
...takes a deliberate solution-focused and goal- oriented approach.
... is present and future driven.
...will take the person from here and now and take them to their future.
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... is aimed at taking a current life situation which is tolerable but less than ideal toward a future outcome which is highly desired.
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Counselling...
...seeks to help resolve emotional, relational and mental health problems.
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...focuses on the past and encompasses personal history and / or family of origin issues, whilst coaching
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...will skillfully look for the triggers and causative factors in a person’s past journey and help them to deal with it by bringing them to a more hopeful present.
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...Psychotherapy/counselling often addresses current situations which are not tolerable and causing significant distress.
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