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The 4 Quadrant Coaching Consultation - Time for tea at back to school

Back to School always, but always feels like a really busy time of year, don't you think?

Whether you are going to school, being a student, or are a parent of school age children, you are directly into a new mindset and a new set of goals for the school or college term.  I think even if you don't have children, then there is an awareness of the amount of year which has past, and how little of the year there is left to achieve your goals.

Added to that, I find a general sense of busy-ness which can feel at odds with wanting to mindfully do your best work as a coach.

Actually, one thing I have worked out recently is that I like to help keep things light, fun and with a huge sense of yummyness in the way people work.

When I meet people, in person I love to get that yummy factor too.  I've been meeting coaches, in London for a lovely cup of tea and a piece of cake, and the chance to have a chat, have a listen and hopefully add some value!

So if you are a coach out there who would like to have the rest of their year feel back on track, I'm offering a one to one phone consultation (or a virtual tea party!)  to help you use your time more effectively.

The idea of the 4 Quadrant Consultation is help you review where you are against your goals for the year, create a flowing structure for your work and give us a chance to meet and chat, with some value to you in the shape of an action plan and recommendations at the end of the session.

Sounds yummy?  Simply RSVP to my email claire@growasacoach.com

And the most yummy thing?  No financial cost - just your time and energy to move yourself forwards.

(Sessions subject to availability, sessions arranged according to availability of coach and client, and time zones.  Client to call coach and the consultation lasts between 45mins-1hr)

Sharing Vision and Values

So, I've been working, prepatory to my move today to FT coaching, on my marketing vision and values.  I thought it may  be useful to share.

And - here are a couple of calls to action to get you thinking before you read it...

1.  Do you have a vision set up for your business?  What's stopping you?

2.  Does your vision identity opportunities and choices for what you do?  How can you get the best from the way you work?

At The Fabulous Coaching Company our purpose is to facilitate through coaching, training & consultancy the emergence of passionate, confident & knowledgeable owners of small enterprises who customers love to work with & return to do business with time and time again.

 

Our Vision is that empowering more small business owners will enable them to continue to grow their businesses, make small businesses the choice of more consumers & emphasise the benefits of independent, small businesses to the

UK

Economy.

 

Our key values are Connection, Communication, Integrity, and Presence and Commitment.

 

I value Connection.  The Fabulous Coaching Company lives this value through the way it builds relationships with the people it does business with – fellow coaches, suppliers, and the people we work with at all levels.  Connection is listening to the facts, the stories & the intuitive depth of the situation to help pull out the threads of different perspective that make a difference.  Connection is all about finding out how we can best truly serve those we work with to make the biggest difference.

 

I value Communication.  The Fabulous Coaching Company lives this value through communicating at the right level – not too little, not too much and always with the Vision & Purpose of how we can best serve them at the heart of our business.  Communication is about being clear, and helping others to be clear themselves.

 

I value Integrity.  The Fabulous Coaching Company lives this value through our belief in the value of a professional and warm relationship with our clients, bounded by professional ethics & the confidential, safe relationship we build with our clients.

 

I value Presence.  The Fabulous Coaching Company lives this value when we truly hear what dreams, aspirations and stuck moments our clients are having and are there to help them find new ways to move forwards.

 

I value Commitment.  The Fabulous Coaching Company lives this value when we follow our purpose and vision and put our talents and strengths into the right projects & learning to help us continually growing and moving forwards.  Commitment lives in choosing with intuition and with analysis what will help us and our clients to grow. 

Always pleased to be quoted...

I was so pleased today when I got this quote from Sarah, the "ratrace escape artist"

http://www.ratraceescapeartist.com/blog/_archives/2007/8/8/3146027.html

As for me, that's what I love about coaching.  Always will.  The chance to read the words and see a different story to the one that you may see in the words or speech you give yourself.  The opportunity to offer that, for discussion.  The sense of creating awareness and a different viewpoint.  Knowing that the person knows best about themselves, but that a well aimed or timed question can show a light that may otherwise remain dark.

Sarah, by the way, has lots of energy for herself and is a personal expert in her quest to escape to what she wants, rather than what she feels she has to have.  See her blog to hear more about her journey, in her own words.

We're launched!

Well, it's finally here, I've grabbed opportunity and abundance with both hands, stopped asking myself what else needs to be done and got out there and done it.  We are LIVE folks, both with the new updated blog (hi, readers!) and with my new website.

And as an opening offer, I've got loads of cool deals & competitions - keep reading to find out more!

Are you living how you'd like?

I was working earlier this week on values.  Generally when I do this it's literally to the extent of working on the first level of what values are for people and how they can make these known to themselves and then visible.  For instance, I have worked on my values myself, and then have them up above my computer where I work so I can visibly see them as a reminder of what is most important to me - connection, communication, focus and freedom.

Individual Coaching - 6 sessions

You can complete your coach training successfully.

You can be a successful coach once you are qualified.

But you need to have a plan.  To be consistent.  To hold yourself accountable, and focus on your own professional growth.  To have a vision.

And that's where I come in.  An experienced, International Coach Federations Associate Certified Coach, I have been on the same journey as you - and now want to work with you to help make your own journey easier.

How will I do that?

Through the coaching I do with you to help you articulate who you are as a coach & get past all the places where you are stuck.

Through sharing, tips, techniques and tools with you, both through this blog, newsletters & through your individual coaching where I know I have just the right resource for you - resources I have used myself or created out of my own need to develop both my coaching & my business.

How do I work?

We will always have an initial, approximately 30 minute consultation.  Currently all my one to one coaching is done on the phone, which means you can be based anywhere with a reliable phone connection.  The consultation is for us both to see how we fit and if we can work together - finding out what you are most stuck on right now, what you want to work on & how I can best help you as your coach to achieve that.

If we both decide we want to work together, there is a 6 session minimum commitment with me - 45.00 GBP a session, so a total commitment of 270.00 GBP.

From there we'll arrange session times, & I'll set you up on your online management system so you can track your goals complete a discovery form, and so we can set up our schedule.

Then it's straight into the coaching - either weekly or fortnightly.

If you'd like to be coached please email me at claire@growasacoach.com to discuss setting up the initial consultation

Who we work with:

Our market & expert specialism is working with independent, self employed coaches who work in the life coaching/ small business coaching sectors.

The 3 main groups we work with currently are:

• Coaches in training who are aiming to successfully pass their initial coach training within their stated timeframe.
  
  We have a further goal for the coaches we work with to help them make this as easy a goal & as fun a journey as possible as they work with their coach training provider to learn all the core coaching skills & take those first tentative steps as professional coaches.  To do this we help coaches understand where coaching fits in alignment with all aspects of their life & value & create personalised study & action plans that we work with them throughout their training with as accountability partners.  In addition to this we help with some of the specific challenges of completing coach training including defining who you are as a coach, meeting the needs of the accrediting body and coach training school you are learning with, completing study assignments & learning the real skills you need to coach with.
• Coaches who have completed coach training & who want to transition to “real” coaches as effortlessly as possible.
  
  Often the step from “pretend” to “real” clients can feel a massive jump & many coaches miss the structure & support of the training provider they worked with, as well as grappling how to turn coaching into a business that they can be both proud of as a professional coach & which is a profitable small business.  Often key challenges at this time are aligning and balancing the need to learn how to run your business from scratch, to developing your coaching skills & confidence, whilst avoiding feeling overwhelmed with all the different steps involved in marketing and selling your service.
  
  We help coaches in transition to get clearer about who they want to work with, where they hang out & how to use the best of who they are to market their skills to the particular needs of their clients.   Through our partner coaches we also help them work on Business Basics & Confidence Tools to give a holistic support approach to these crucial stages in the coach’s progression.
• Experienced coaches who want to stand tall & proud as coaches by continually improving their personal & professional growth & business skills: 
  
  Our whole philosophy and vision at Grow as a Coach is about ongoing development & progress that we make as coaches.  So, we work with coaches to help them think about their longer term plans as coaches, whether this is taking a step back and re-evaluating where they are & their success criteria, to creating professional portfolio’s, to developing a long term career vision for their own professional development.

In the longer term we will also be offering coach mentoring & supervision support across all 3 of these groups.