What is Coaching?

Dear Friends,

My desire and invitation to you now is that you continue to expand the quality of your life by committing to the philosophy of Constant and Life long learning. By doing so, I believe that you will create a life of lasting fulfillment for yourself and for those you care about.

What is coaching?
Coaching help you understand exactly want you want, why you want it and then assist you in developing and executing a massive action plan to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be.  By utilizing the strategies your coach shares with you, you can immediately and dramatically change your performance, to produce results more quickly.  Coaching is a formalized transformational learning process that occurs as a result of ongoing interactions between a coach and client that are focused on building skills and competencies, developing potential, enhancing performance and creating a more fulfilled and balanced life.

Coaching helps individuals to grow.  They look at all aspects of your life to see what it is that you are doing that is empowering and what it is that you are doing that is disempowering -- to alter inefficient patterns of behavior and generate new adaptive and successful actions.  Changing old habits and patterns can be very difficult even if we realize they are hindering us in the realization of our ambitions and dreams.  A coach provides a different perspective, opens up new possibilities and supports us in the sometimes-challenging process of change.  A coach will work with our emotions - as it is through acknowledging and understanding our feelings that change can occur.

 
Benefits of Coaching:
The benefits of coaching are wide-ranging depending on the focus of the coaching engagement, however common benefits include:

  Personal Benefits:

• Effective, sustainable behavioral change
• Clarifying what you want from your life - your values, purpose, beliefs and vision and enhance intrinsic motivation
• Setting more effective goals
• Having someone who is committed to supporting and encouraging you on your journey of change
• Having someone to challenge you keep you focused and centered, hold you accountable and confront you if you are not meeting your commitments
• More effective communication with peers, colleagues and family
• Handling challenging situations quickly and decisively, experiencing a more enriched, balanced personal life
• Identifying gaps and obstacles to efficiency
• Motivate and sustain momentum
• Increase scope of information, ideas and solutions
• Increase the individual ownership of his/her life - moving the client from inactive to proactive

Professional Benefits:

• Discover and tap into potential and creativity
• Improved skills and competencies
• Improve concentration, confidence, relaxation and decision-making
• Remove performance fears and anxieties
• Eliminate unhealthy work stressors
• Having a sounding board for ideas, strategies and plans
• Increased productivity in the workplace
• Non-biased advice on business decisions
• Develop advanced communication skills - effective verbal/nonverbal interactions
• Powerful listening skills
• Feedback
• Better learning strategies
• Enhanced entrepreneurial skills
• Improved presentation skills
• Improved delegation skills

 
What is the coaching process?
1. Your coach will work with you to specifically define the results you are committed to achieving.  In order for this to occur, your coach will help you to, with crystal clarity, establish your values, determine your purpose and develop your life vision.

2. You will work with your coach to assess where you are right now, where you want to be - and the gap in between.  By establishing your achievements and failures; assessing maladaptive patterns of behavior and moving you forward to action.

3. Develop an action plan with SMART (Specific Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, Traceable) goals - prioritize goals, determine possible obstacles, set timelines, determine resources and support systems needed and plan the first action steps required.  Your plan is your “Pathway to Power”.  It is modeled on those individuals who have already achieved the results you demand at the highest and deepest levels.

4. Your coach will help you focus, challenge you, hold you accountable and confront you when you are not meeting your commitments as you implement your “Pathway to Power”.

 
One-on-One Coaching Benefits:

• Coaching interaction is highly personalized and geared specifically towards the individual’s needs and aspirations
• The individual has freedom to set the agenda, which can be fluid and flexible
  individual coaching has been found to provide a Return on Investment of 10:1

Coaching works in all areas of life:

Emotional:
Virtually everything we do is to change the way we feel-yet most of us have little or no training in how to do this quickly and effectively.  It is amazing how easy it is to work ourselves into an unresourceful emotional states.  Too many of us leave ourselves at the mercy of outside events over which we may have no control, failing to take charge of our emotions-over which we have all the control.  Your coach can help you understand what makes you do what you do, feel what you feel, and the triggers for the emotions you experience most often.  You will then be given a step-by-step plan to show you how to identify which emotions are empowering, which are disempowering, and how to use both kinds to your best advantage so that your emotions become not a hindrance, but instead a powerful tool in helping you achieve your highest potential.

    
Relationship:
There is nothing I can think of that is more important than learning to master your relationships-romantic, family, business, and social.  After all, who wants to learn, grow, and become successful and happy all by themselves?  Ask your coach to teach you how to create quality relationships-first with yourself, then with others.  You will begin by discovering what you value most highly, what your expectations are, and the rules by which you live and how it relates to everybody around you.  You will learn how to connect with people.  Define what you want in a relationship. (Romantic, family, business, and social)

Financial:
Without the conviction that you deserve financial well-being, backed up by a workable game plan, how can you turn your “American Dream” into reality?  Because we live in a capitalist society, each of us has the capability of carrying out those dreams.  Yet most of us experience financial pressure on an ongoing basis and we fantasize about reaching our dreams.  To reach your destiny of financial abundance, you will first learn how to change what causes scarcity in your life and then how to experience on a consistent basis the values, beliefs and emotions that are essential to experiencing wealth and holding on to it and expanding it.  You will get clear on where you are financially - assets, debt, and the big picture.  Realize your beliefs about money and financial success, design new beliefs that are more empowering.  Design a plan to achieve your financial goals.  Develop strategies to help you manage your emotional state during challenging times.  Brainstorm resources to get further information and/or assistance in the areas you feel are most important.  You will define your goals and shape your dreams to always have any eye toward the future.

Career/Business:
Picture yourself living your dream career or having your own business.  To do that you have to define where you are, what you like and don’t like about what you’re currently doing and change it.  Discover your true passions in life.  Your coach will assist you to design a career/business where you get to do what you love best.  Your coach will help you understand how your natural behavior patterns and communication style (DISC) enhance or reduce your chances for success in a particular type of career.  Discover additional resources to assist you - outside resources like educational, governmental, role models… and internal resources like positive emotional states and an Identity that propels you toward success.  Design a specific achievable plan to get your career/business outcomes.  The coach will provide you with strategies for staying in a positive emotional state during transitions.

Time:
We all have the same amount of it.  Yet how many of us really know how to use it?  I’m not talking about time management; I’m talking about actually taking time and distorting it, manipulating it so that it becomes a friend rather than an enemy.  Learn how short-term evaluations can lead to long-term pain.  You will learn how to make a real decision and how to manage your desire for instant gratification, thus allowing your ideas, your goals, and your own potential-the time to reach its fullest.  You will learn how to design the necessary maps and strategies for following up on your decision, making your decisions reality with the willingness to take massive action, the patience to experience “lag time” and the flexibility to change you approach as often as needed.  Once you have mastered time you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year-and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

 
Let me give you the investment of the coaching program …
 
For more information, contact us at jim@jlwhiteinternational.com

No matter how committed we are or how much willpower we have, we all need a coach who cares and who has the skills to challenge us to step up and maximize the quality of our lives - with conscious thought, decision and action.  Our outstanding coaches, have been immersed in Jim’s technologies and will empower you with the focus, training and accountability you need to achieve the consistent results you demand in the most important areas of your life.