The Coaching Process
Vision
Coaches understand that every client is different, each bringing their own unique set of issues and feelings that significantly impact their overall health and well-being. They hold deep respect for their clients' individual experiences and perspectives, and they sincerely believe in their ability to make meaningful and lasting changes in their lives.
Partnership
A coaching partnership naturally develops from a genuine concern and a profound respect for each individual client. In this relationship, the coach and client work closely together as a dedicated team, collaboratively striving towards a shared objective: the client’s optimal health, well-being, and overall personal growth.
Focus
In partnership, the client and coach work collaboratively with one clear focus and one concrete action step at a time. Throughout the process, the client always remains the one who chooses the specific area for change and independently decides how to best put that change into meaningful action.
Goals
Though a client always chooses the primary focus for change, coaches play a crucial role in guiding clients to develop both long-term and short-term goals that they can feel confident in achieving. Together, they collaborate to create success-oriented plans that are practical and tailored to a client’s real-life circumstances, ensuring meaningful progress and lasting results.
Accountability
Establishing accountability is a crucial and foundational part of the change process. Coaches play a key role in helping to create and maintain this sense of accountability. However, once action has begun, the coach’s role evolves to supporting the client in assessing the effectiveness of those actions and determining whether any additional steps or adjustments are necessary to continue progressing toward their goals.
Success
Coaches assist their clients in developing a personalized plan for change that is closely aligned with the client’s core values and offers the highest likelihood of success. Throughout the process, they collaboratively review lessons learned and celebrate successes, yet it is ultimately the client who identifies the key lessons, acknowledges their achievements, and decides on the next steps to take for continued growth and improvement.
What are clients saying?
“I have a great coach who helped me to value myself and believe in my abilities.”
What to expect?
You may decide to have weekly sessions, biweekly sessions, or a mix with your coach. We recommend that your coaching agreement spans a minimum of 3 months. This is because it generally takes a minimum of 3 months to change a health behavior and to create a new one that can become self-sustaining. Three months is a reasonable amount of time for a client to experience the impact of coaching and to see tangible results either personally or professionally.
When a business or personal change is clearly tied to a persons mission, vision and values, clients are motivated to embrace the process of change and to overcome the obstacles and barriers they may encounter.
Coaches are different from teachers, physicians or therapists. Coaches serve as guides through the process of change rather than an expert who makes recommendations on specifically what and when change should happen.
Lionsmane Coaching utilizes a progress-oriented model, with a goal of increasing insight and translating that into action, with further learning from actions taken. This means that as you choose action steps to achieve goals, the coaches' role is to check in on progress with action steps at the beginning of each session and to close each session by helping clients make decisions about next steps.
Identifying values serves two purposes in making a change:
It sets the stage for identifying the specific areas of change that you will address. Coaches support clients in prioritizing what matters most to them.
It establishes a motivation for behavior change. When change is clearly tied to your ideal values, you are motivated to embrace the process of change and work through the obstacles and barriers they may encounter.
Potential questions that you can expect to hear from your coach are:
What really matters to you in your business and life?
What do you want for yourself both personally and professionally?
What is your vision for success?
What do you value?
What brings you joy and happiness?
When you think about the vision we've just discussed, what stands out as being really important to you?
What values are you honoring as you move toward this vision?