“Become who you are.”

My coaching approach is question-based and solution-focused. Experience and reflection on myself have taught me how to change lens and listen carefully when meeting a new situation. So every coachee being different, I therefore like to use different tools and approaches accordingly. I want to ensure that through my questioning, there is always something new to discover, something to learn and to get curious about.

What a coach and a coachee do usually is talking and listening. This seems to be obvious, but what about? Well, practically about anything, the point being that the aim of coaching is to achieve a positive result at the end of the coaching process. Typically, during my sessions, coachees want to share problems, frustrations, talk about a new idea or a break-through experience. They need to resolve a dilemma, have a complaint about something, have feelings and fears they want to understand or overcome, they need a feed-back, they want to clarify where they stand and where they want to be.

Both approaches aims at helping individuals to grow, master their problems, and become more effective in their lives. However in a coaching relationship:

• The coachee is willing and motivated to change something in one or few areas of his/her life.
• The coaching session look like structured conversations around goals with indicators and action plans that are defined by the coachee himself/herself.
• The coaching process, through questioning, can be sometimes introspective and challenging, however it is always focused on solutions for the present and the future of the coachee.

Along the coaching sessions, it can happen that the coach advises the coachee to seek for a therapist if he assesses that this would me more appropriate.

As a general rule, if you are looking to make changes in a number of areas of your life then you will probably need 6 to 8 sessions. It takes about 3 sessions for you to get into the habit of asking questions of yourself in a solution-focused way.  Also, if you want to tackle long-standing habits or self-limiting attitudes and beliefs then this usually requires a number at the higher end of the range. However, if you are looking to make a change in one or two areas of your life or just want to ‘get yourself back on course’ then go for fewer sessions.

Based on professional practice, ideally, sessions should be seven to ten days apart. It’s important that we can build momentum from one session to the next. If the sessions are spread more than two weeks apart then it runs the risk of becoming ‘fire-fighting’ rather than coaching. The overall aim of coaching is empowerment. Of course, if you need support for a particular project that requires less frequent sessions we can discuss this.

The standard length is 60 minutes. However, I also offer extended sessions if you feel this would benefit you. Again, we can discuss this. My usual recommendation is to go for the standard session first.

A coaching session is basically a focused conversation. You bring the agenda and I, as the coach, help to structure the process. Each session, after the first, begins with a brief review of ‘what’s been better’. We then move on to the main topic and describe the issue for 20% of the time. We spend 80% of the time focusing on solutions. Each session, usually, generates some kind of action step forward.

I offer face-to-face coaching, Skype and telephone coaching, or a mixture of all three based on your needs.

Yes, I offer a consultation by Skype or Zoom. Typically, it lasts about 20-30 minutes. You can ask any questions you need and also give you an idea of what it would be like to work with me on your goals.