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What's
all the buzz about COACHING?:
- Coaching
transforms how you think and feel about your Self, your
work and your place in the world - and what you do, as
a result of new perspectives
- Coaching
expands your self-confidence and self-knowledge
- Coaching
helps you trust your innate abilities, commit to your
dreams, & develop strategic plans to achieve and excel
at what you love
Coaching
is for you if you are:
- in
transition (or thinking about it)
- starting
a new project, career or relationship
- wanting
more personal power and sense of possibility
- curious
about your mission in life
- needing
some rapid de-stressing techniques
- seeking
strategies to implement your ideas, hopes & dreams
- searching
for spiritual growth
Coaching
The Full Spectrum—
When
reduced to its simplest form, coaching is all about two
questions: "what do you want?" and "by
when do you want it?"
But
that simple question "what do you want" gets
short-circuited so easily by our internal self-criticism
and "lies" about our selves and our capabilities!
Our minds work overtime, telling us all the reasons why
we can't have what we want, or at least not now. Sometimes,
our thoughts are so quiet and familiar to us that we don't
even notice they have thrown a wet blanket over our dreams,
passions and plans.
I
will coach you about what matters to you - encouraging
you to pull out the stops and cast off the personal and
cultural "myths" that impede your full development.
We'll look at all aspects of your life--career, relationships,
health, money, physical environment, personal growth,
etc. As a Co-Active coach, I am trained to support you
in setting the agenda and focus of our overall coaching
relationship and of each session.
I
see you as healthy, whole and resourceful. I will be your
facilitator, sounding board, mentor, truth-sayer (i.e.,
the things even your best friends may not tell you--but
without judgment or an ax to grind) and occasional task
master. I will help you establish measurable goals and
milestones along your chosen pathways--for small life-improving
steps or to implement a big vision.
Coaching
combines an exciting range of perspectives and rich empowerment
tools. We'll use the ones that work best for you.
No
matter what focus brings you into coaching, I encourage
my clients to pay at least some attention to each and
every major area of life. I believe people do best when
they lead balanced lives, even when they are pursuing
a new business opportunity, facing difficult challenges
or dealing with a relationship gone awry. By being able
to include the possibility of greater satisfaction and
fulfillment in all areas of life, the ones under particular
scrutiny at any given time seem to open up with new perspectives
and additional avenues for resolution. Progress and change
often appear from "left field" - that is, from
some unexpected source or happening, some synchronicity
you recognize as a new future because you have done the
work to unearth your deeply held dreams and desires.
As
a coach I bring the following perspectives, orientations,
skills, practices and beliefs to the table:
vision
• integrity •
compassion • honesty
• directness without directiveness
•
energy • resources
and resourcefulness • appreciation
and acknowledgment • flexibility
• humor •
creativity • possibility
and potential • nonjudgmental
listening • commitment •
questioning and curiosity •
validation • structure
• supportiveness •
appropriate concern • brainstorming
• strategic planning •
neutrality • accountability
• passion •
responsiveness
Individual
Coaching Sessions and Rates
Following
an initial co-creative conversation to determine if we
are a good match as coach and client, I like to start
new coaching relationships with a two hour "opening
session". In preparation for this session, I will
ask you to fill out some informational forms which will
help you explore some important questions and help me
get to know you and your personal objectives.
During
our opening session, we'll talk about how structured you'd
like our coaching sessions to be, how best to motivate
you, how much input you want, and other matters that will
help us set up a strong working alliance. This session
can be conducted in person (I live in the Bay Area) or
over the phone. I charge $300. for this two-hour session.
After
that, I generally recommend that we talk for two 45-minute
sessions or 3 30-minute sessions per month at a cost of
$225 or three 45-minute sessions a month for $340.00.
If other time frames work better for you, we can arrange
a different schedule and appropriate rates. Sliding scale,
special rates and scholarships available. Special rate
(new clients only): Need to work on an isolated issue?
Let's talk for a single 1-hour session at a cost of $125.
Coaching
for Organizations and Associations
I
work with organizations in specially designed formats
- presentations, workshops, meeting and agenda planning,
team-building exercises, life balance, restructuring,
transition and change, project design and implementation,
employee empowerment, management-employee relationships,
communication skills, and/or strategic planning, group
dynamics, group process, participatory decision-making
and consensus-building.
Sample
presentations and workshops include:
- Stress
Reduction
- Brainstorming
- Participatory
Decision-Making And Consensus Building
- Creating
Intracultural Change For More Congenial Working Relations
- Setting
Agendas and Running Effective Meetings
Please
call me with your wish-list, ideas and opportunities and
we will design a proposal together.
Testimonials
"Susan's
coaching provided me with unique insights into my career
exploration for both future opportunities and present
challenges. She expanded my range of options and my sense
of the "possible." I began to think of her as
an ignition switch and left every session feeling more
confident and competent. Even when I supposed I'd thought
of everything about a given situation, she helped me discover
more to be considered. I think Susan's expertise would
be an invaluable asset whenever one is considering new
opportunities or change of any type."
~B.S., Director, Sales & Programming, management
training company
"Susan
listens with insight and perception. She extracts the
vital elements from our conversations, focusing my attention
on actions that will produce results. Susan also helps
me to identify and examine the essential values and motivations
driving my actions."
~S.F., Project Manager, manufacturing company
"I
have accomplished so much more of my goals since I started
working with Susan - personally, professionally, financially,
spiritually, and in many other aspects of my life. She
has a real gift for zeroing in on the exact goal I want
to work on each time we talk and gently guides me to the
small steps I need to take to make the bigger goal a reality."
~J.G., Attorney, future coach
"Above
all, what I think I and the other board members came away
with as a result of Susan's services as a professional
coach was new inspiration and an unexpected spiritual
significance to the volunteer work we each are attempting
to accomplish."
~T.T., Board Member, community-based non-profit
"Thank
you for leading such a thought-provoking workshop (Success
Strategies for Changing Times). I know each woman got
special and new insights from your ideas, as did I."
~S.H, Member, Stanford Business/Professional Women's
Special Interest Group (East Bay)
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