About Coaching

Coaching Basics
Coaching by Telephone
Coaching Sessions
Coaching Schedule
Coaching the Individual
Business and Corporate Coaching



Coaching Basics

Coaching focuses on big- picture and up-close goals. You may want or need to accomplish goals in both of these categories or in only one.

Big-picture goals expand your horizon in your professional and/or personal life. They involve your personal vision, your mission, and your aspirations.  They may involve the desire to make a career shift, start a new business, begin a major project, or write a book. These goals go beyond the everyday tasks of managing your life.
 
Up-close goals include the management of ongoing, everyday and immediate challenges at work and at home.  Organizing and prioritizing projects and taking the stress out of the “To Do” list are examples.  These goals include improving social and work relationships.  Sometimes, big-picture goals are identified while working on up-close goals.

When corporations and businesses hire a coach for employees, they are often looking to improve up-close goal performance relevant to work only.  Personal life goals and big picture goals are still a part of the coaching, because they affect success at work.   Coaching involves the whole person.

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Coaching by Telephone

My coaching clients live and work across the country and abroad. Coaching by telephone is both convenient and effective. It offers intimacy, practicality and focus.  It also becomes an effective magnifier of what is being said and of what is not being said.

Clients who live and work close to my Doylestown, Pennsylvania office may choose to come to the office for coaching sessions.  Some clients who live near, but not conveniently near, come for an initial visit after which we work together by telephone. I have not had the pleasure of meeting most of my clients in person, but this does not impede the synergy of our working together or our ability to build trust.  

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Coaching Sessions

Many prospective clients ask me what I do during coaching sessions. Here is what you can expect I wil do.

LISTEN with respect, objectivity and acceptance
REFRAME your beliefs from new vantage points
QUESTION in order to clarify, challenge, identify and reveal
ORGANIZE/SORT so you may let go of the unimportant and access the important
STRATEGIZE, brainstorm, problem-solve and mind-map
SIMPLIFY by helping you plan better and break up tasks into doable chunks
FOCUS to help you get clear about the journey ahead and stay on track with tasks
ESTABLISH ACTION STEPS and attach consciousness to those actions
DEVELOP RESOURCES to build a transformational bag of useful tools.
IDENTIFY WINS by clearly noting what’s going right
MAINTAIN BALANCE by asking, “What do you need to be healthy, happy, peaceful?”
APPLAUD, affirm, recognize, acknowledge, honor and praise you

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Coaching Session Schedule

I ask my clients to commit to coaching for a minimum three to six months. I also request that my clients sign a contract indicating that they understand how coaching is defined, what the fee will be, how payment is made and how sessions are scheduled.  During a typical month of coaching, I talk with a client once a week for three weeks. I have found that this schedule works very well.  Clients can communicate with me via email between sessions, as well.

I coach some of my clients twice a month. Within reason, this schedule can adjust to your needs and to mine.  After coaching for a period of time, some clients will reduce sessions to two or even one per month. Others stop completely.  And some clients return for a limited period of coaching to address a new challenge or accomplish a new goal or task.

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Coaching the Individual 

Coaching puts you, the client, at the center of the coaching relationship.  In coaching you and I will look at the present and future – the tasks, projects and challenges immediately before you, as well as your goals, dreams and desires.  I will ask you questions and listen carefully to what you say and what you are not saying.  I will reflect back to you what I see and hear so that we get an accurate picture of: perceived obstacles, hidden beliefs, unrecognized resources, undefined goals, unspoken dreams, along with realizations and accomplishments.

I will share tools and strategies, which have helped others overcome challenges similar to yours.  I will also help you reframe challenges and break tasks into manageable steps.

In coaching together, we will focus not on why, but on what and how.  We will look at the past to understand what was challenging, and then we will examine what is challenging now.  This will enable us to discover new approaches, strategies and tools.  We will also uncover personal strengths and keep you operating out of those strengths.

I call my coaching business Getting Clear because I believe that is what each of us strive to do in our life.  We seek to move from some level of confusion and procrastination toward clarity, action and accomolishment. We all need tools, strategies and resources to move toward our goals.   And it certainly helps to do it with a coaching partner. Coaching is about having someone skilled in creating desired change accompany you on the journey.

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Business and Corporate Coaching

The employee with ADHD may have challenges with disorganization, procrastination, a sense of being overwhelmed, difficulty handling multiple tasks and deadlines, difficulty in managing others and challenges in social relationships. This client needs special help. A corporate or business coach with no experience in coaching ADHD clients will likely find coaching this employee challenging and frustrating.


Corporate and business coaching frequently involves the following:

•addressing personal and review-based performance assessments
•implementing organizational tools and strategies
•managing transitions
•building relationships
•solving problems
•inding solutions
•establishing resources and support
•using tools, such as the MAPP Assessment, to determine strengths, motivations and preferred learning and work style

In corporate and business coaching, the contract is between the business owner or some level of management and Getting Clear. I also work as a sub-contractor to other coaching and consulting businesses, providing them needed expertise in coaching the ADHD or challenging client, but the coaching is between the employee and the coach. Communication and reports with supervisors are built into the contract.

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