The LIFELINE Coaching Program
Thank you for your interest in the LIFELINE Coaching Program. To help you get started, below are a few interesting facts about coaching in general, and the specifics of the LIFELINE Coaching Program.
What Is Coaching?
Coaching is a personalized service that helps individuals produce fulfilling results in their personal and professional lives. Through the coaching process, individuals expand their learning, improve their performance, and enhance their quality of life.
Individuals often find a coach useful when they are making a career transition, feeling dissatisfied, re-evaluating life choices, or simply looking to improve the quality of their personal or work life. The typical coaching process would include the following:
· Coaching begins with the individual's personal commitment to achieve a goal.
· The number of coaching sessions is mutually agreed upon, and the dates and times of sessions are established.
· During each coaching session the coach and the client discuss and explore the client's progress toward the goal, challenges, opportunities for improvement, and agree to field work for the coming session.
· Fieldwork isn't like homework you were assigned in school. It consists of action steps to help you move toward your goals.
· During each session, the client brings the agenda; and the coach brings the coaching skills to create a partnership that move the client forward.
· The client calls the coach at their scheduled times and dates.
For example, a good analogy is that of a Personal Fitness Trainer. When you go to the gym, the trainer will first ask you what your goals are, for example, build muscle, build endurance, lose weight, increase stamina, etc. After you have made your goals clear, the Trainer will then help you devise a plan of action to achieve your goal.
In a similar fashion, your LIFELINE Coach will encourage and motivate you, ask you questions and help you remove the barriers to achieve your goal. In the end, your LIFELINE Coach helps you achieve your goal quicker and more effectively than if you did it yourself.
How Will the LIFELINE Coaching Program Work?
Your LIFELINE Coach will create a partnership designed to help you produce fulfilling results in your personal and professional life outside of the traditional "counseling" setting. The LIFELINE Coaching Program is designed to help the benefits eligible employee reach their goal in four (4) to six (6) sessions. Your Coach will help you improve work performance and enhance the quality of life in one of the four areas you have selected:
1. Building sound relationships
2. Improving self-esteem
3. Strengthening your career
4. Stress Management
If you wish to continue past the six sessions, your Coach will help you select a Coach from the International Coaching Federation's (ICF) Coach Referral Service that can continue the relationship. There are fees associated with the ongoing coaching.
Along with this information, your Coach has also provided you with two other documents: the Coaching Questionnaire and the Ready to be Coached form. Please complete the two forms as soon as possible and return them to your Coach before the next session.