What is Coaching?
Coaching is a relationship which facilitates
a person's movement toward her most important
and desired goals. A professional coach
specializes in helping you identify what
gives your life meaning and in transforming
that into specific strategies, tailored to your
own unique situation, that enable you to make
your life vision a day-to-day reality.
Perhaps your legal career has not brought you
the satisfaction you'd hoped for. Have you
wondered whether the problem might be your
particular job? Maybe you're unhappy with
your area of practice. Could it be that the legal
field isn't right for you after all?
Have you wondered how to succeed in your work
and still have time for the other important
things in your life: your family and other
relationships, your health, and some much
needed rest and relaxation?
Perhaps you're confident that you've chosen
the right career but find yourself so impossibly
busy that the neglected parts of your life are now
exacting a price.
Or maybe you've concluded that law is
not the best career choice for you, yet
you feel manacled by golden handcuffs or
by your belief that your skills are unmarketable
outside the law. Do you wonder how you'll ever pay
off your law school loans if you leave your job?
Perhaps you've felt that you could achieve your
goals if only you had someone to help you
strategize, to believe in you at times when you
lose faith in yourself, to walk beside you on the
road from here to where you want to go,
supporting you every step of the way.
You know that psychotherapy is not what you
need. You've already done more than enough
thinking about the past; you need to make an action plan
for the future. And while family and friends are wonderful,
sometimes they have their own goals for you that don't
coincide with yours.
If you've ever said to yourself, "If only I had a
supportive person to help me see new possibilities
for balancing my life," then finding a coach
may be your answer. Just as a personal trainer would
help you develop - and stick to- a fitness plan or
performance goal, a professional and personal coach can
help you clarify your most important goals, craft an
action plan to get there and serve as a resource and
support every step of the way.
Your coach will serve as your mentor - a trusted
and knowledgeable advisor, a person who does far
more than just cheer you on. An effective coaching
relationship can inspire you to reach your greatest
potential by helping you identify and mobilize your
best assets in order to reach your life goals.
You and your coach work collaboratively to activate
the very courage and competence that brought you
to where you are now - and to make your dreams a
reality.
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