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Inspired Action Coaching offers life and executive coaching for people, who are already living the life of their dreams…yet, find themselves wondering, "Now that I've arrived, where is the happiness, peace and fulfillment?"
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Have you accomplished a lot, yet notice that something is still missing? |
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Are you struggling with stress or time management and longing for far greater clarity, peace, passion, purpose, meaning, or balance in your work and life? |
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Are you ready to live life on your own terms? |
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Do you feel trapped by the success you have created? |
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Do you want more joy, peace, satisfaction and bliss in your life while continuing to accomplish at a very high level? |
If you are not where you want to be i.e. …
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Successful yet unfulfilled |
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Accomplishing a lot but stressed out |
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Acknowledged by your peers but desiring more meaning and fulfillment |
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Top of your game yet, tired of the results you are currently getting |
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You're the leader and your frustrated by trying to do it all by yourself |
Then I invite you to look into working with an experienced professional who is totally focused on helping you achieve fulfillment in EVERY area of your life.
The moment you hire a professional or personal coach you begin to take yourself more seriously. Your actions immediately become more effective and focused. You stop putting up with nagging things that have been dragging you down. You begin to create momentum. You set goals well beyond those you would have set. Results come more easily. And you receive and relish the acknowledgements you earn and deserve.
Inspired Action Coaching is all about helping you get clear on what you want in the ten key areas of life, creating a compelling plan, and supporting you to make all the important changes needed to achieve the outcomes you most desire.
As a professional service, Inspired Action Coaching consistently delivers a high return on investment (often 400%) because a fulfilled and satisfied person is more effective.
Register for Inspired Action Coaching and your coach will become a powerful partner in helping you achieve far greater levels of success, happiness and fulfillment.
If you are reading this, then you have a sense that more success, clarity, meaning and balance are possible in your life. You are likely already successful in your own right and yet deep down inside you know there is more.
Life and Executive Coaching is an ongoing professional relationship that helps you produce extraordinary results in the ten key areas of life…
- Family
- Primary Relationship
- Physical Well Being
- Business
- Finances
- Mind Set
- Spiritual Life
- Social Life
- Recreation
- Making a Contribution
Imagine being totally satisfied in each and every area of your life! Inspired Action Coaching is a holistic process that empowers you to achieve the results you want in every area of your life now…not some day!
You Will Not Be Happy Some Day in the Future
Happiness isn't a destination it's a context. It's a consciousness. Money and material success won't bring you happiness. But if you are reading this, you already know that.
As a successful person, you realize that money alone is not success. Inspired Action Coaching works on the principle of balance. When your life is balanced and harmonious, you are naturally happier, inspired and in action. Which means your power to accomplish will be multiplied with exponential results.
Think about it like this; Happiness leads to inspiration, which multiplies your energy and makes accomplishment easy, effortless and enjoyable.
When you feel good, you are naturally inspired and in action. When you feel good about your life opportunities and people are naturally attracted. You receive more invitations. People want you involved; they want to collaborate.
When you are happy, you feel inspired to exercise. You connect deeper with your loved ones. You make more money. You just become more effective everywhere. It's synergistic. Each area affects every other area creating a domino effect.
Bottom line: A balanced life requires less effort, and is more efficient than an imbalanced life.
Coaching Benefits Include
- Zest for life! Feel more joy, inspiration, freedom, and peace.
- Find or refine your passion, your purpose and your mission in life.
- Your projects will explode with energy, gain momentum and quantum leap… 400%, 500%, 1000% increases in results.
- Authentic Self Expression - Break through the perceptions and illusions that make communication impossible with some people.
- Give more - Contribution - Make a Difference - discover the charitable side of your personality and enrich your life by contributing to others.
- Deepen the trust you have in your intuition and learn to be guided from within.
- Learn to act from inspiration verses reacting to your circumstances.
- Create the courage to be totally honest about who you are, what you are committed to how you want to spend your life.
- Break free from the shackles of guilt and obligation.
- Learn to connect deeply with the most important people in your life.
- Learn techniques to let go of worry, doubt, anger and resentment… forgive, accept and love yourself and others unconditionally.
- Learn to live in the moment and enjoy your life more fully.
- Clean up problematic relationships and create harmony with your friends, family, co-workers and other important people.
- De-clutter your mind, control your thoughts and emotions.
- Create a pristine environment that supports your accomplishments, peace of mind and balanced life style.
- Live a well-balanced holistic life style that supports your dream scenario now verses some day in the future.
Typical reasons someone might work with a coach include…
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You are living a great life by everyone's standards but you are not happy |
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You are extremely successful, and success has started to become problematic |
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There is something at stake (a challenge, stretch goal or opportunity), and it is urgent, compelling or exciting or all of the above |
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You feel stuck, trapped like you can't escape the life you've been dealt. You want to create a new life based on your new criteria for happiness. |
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You have a desire to accelerate your results |
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You want peace and happiness back in your life |
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There is a need for a course correction in work or life due to a setback |
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You don't know what your life's purpose or mission is. There is a lack of clarity, and you feel it's time to make some new choices |
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Work and life are out of balance, and this is creating unwanted consequences |
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You want work and life to be simpler, less complicated |
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What is Coaching?
Inspired Action Coaches have synthesized the best from business, psychology, philosophy, and spirituality to create a variety of powerful processes that help you get clear, stay in action and move past obstacles with velocity. All of our clients start with this seven-step process…
1. Assess where you are in every area of your life now. Define how satisfied you are with the results and the experience you are having in the ten key areas of life. ** Take the Test Now **
2. Design a vision for your ultimate life. If life was as good as it could possibly get, what would it look like?
3. Create a five-year vision, a one year plan and quarterly intentions
4. Discover the barriers to taking action in the direction of your dreams
5. Remove the barriers to success, happiness, fulfillment and accomplishment
6. Keep you accountable to the tasks that make the biggest difference in your life
7. Support you through the breakdowns and chaos of making your dreams a reality.
Is coaching therapy?
No. Therapists try to help people with problems; while coaches help already healthy people improve their lives and fulfill their dreams.
Yet, your problems will not be ignored; they will be dealt with using a variety of practical solutions that keep you moving forward in the direction of your dream life. Your Inspired Action Coach is trained to see patterns of dysfunction and help you remove them with ease so you can get back to inspiration, which is the ultimate energy for accomplishment.
You and your coach become a team, focusing on your making your dream life a reality. As you and your coach partner together and focus on your life, the synergy created between the two of you enables you to accomplish more than you might otherwise do on your own.
What should you expect from your coach?
- Support you through the ups and down of changing your life
- Challenge you and motivate you to take actions that will make your dreams a reality now!
- Inspire you to live your dreams, speak your truth, stick up for yourself and be authentic and real.
- Give you the perfect solution to turn crisis into victory
- Help you generate fresh perspectives
- Help you to think outside of the box, plan for what you want and execute
- Keep you on track and accountable
- Help you rapidly move past barriers and blocks in real time
- Expand your thinking and enhance your decision making skills
- Boost your confidence when you are feeling low
- Show you how to quantum leap your personal effectiveness
- Give you the secrets to living a life of happiness and peace
- Give you tools to generate feelings of joy and gratitude
What are typical assignments from your coach?
Here are four case studies. Each example represents assignments that were given over multiple calls and multiple weeks or months.
Life coaching an individual to rediscover his purpose and mission in life - write a five year vision letter from the perspective of "If life was good as it gets" - write about his dream scenario in the ten key areas of life - break down it down into specific measurable results - create a set of quarterly initiatives that can begin to take shape now. Practice a set of disciplines to learn how to accept that he can have his dream life now.
Mentoring a senior executive at a global bank to get back into balance and stay on task - Start a diet and exercise program that works for him. Look into meditation and see what appeals to him. Start to schedule a standing weekly date night with his wife. Put every one of his son's games in the calendar. Identify the top three most profitable actions of his team - create an action plan with his team - develop an accountability structure that moves initiatives forward without dominating his team. Take two walks out side of the office every day to regroup.
Working with president of a national sales training firm to stop "doing" start "leading" and reclaim his life - Ask each key manager the Criteria Questions to discover their motivation for working, craft a new set of accountabilities for each manager that is tied to their criteria. Begin having a scheduled Date Night with wife. Utilize the Date Night Questions to stimulate a deeper connection. Apologize to children for being a workaholic and recommit to time spent with each of them.
Working with an ultra successful Realtor, mother of two, whose relationship is falling apart - Figure out what she is holding her husband accountable to that he never agreed to and release it. Have a conversation with husband using the Five Step Clean Up Questions to reset the relationship and remove any resentment and negativity. Create a reward/consequence accountability game around generating new clients. Develop a new plan to connect with kids and begin taking every Saturday off. Create accountability structure around taking Saturday's off.
What do you work on with a life coach?
- Personal and professional life balance.
- Taking projects to completion.
- Wellness.
- Reducing stress.
- Personal Effectiveness.
- Extreme Self-Care.
- Turning around a difficult situation.
- Increasing sales significantly or filling a practice.
- Business or personal problems.
- Releasing untapped potential.
- Manifesting goodness into your life.
- Attracting opportunity and money.
- Releasing negative belief systems that get in your way
How is the coaching delivered? What does the process look like?
The Coaching Process - Coaching begins by filling out three revealing documents.
- The Whole Life Questionnaire that reveals where you are and where you want to be in the ten key areas of your life. (Click here to download PDF)
- The Resistance worksheet which reveals everything in your life past present and future that you are currently resisting about life. By understanding what you are resisting, your coach will help you quickly recontextualize these situations to let go of your resistance and naturally move back into a state of joy. (Click here to download PDF)
- The Wheel Exercise is a graphic representation of your current level of satisfaction. This exercise will show you the areas of life you have been neglecting and give you guidance on how to be in action even before your first call. (Click here to download PDF)
Subsequent coaching sessions will be conducted over the telephone, with each session lasting either 30 or 45 minutes depending on which program you register for.
Between scheduled coaching sessions, you will be asked to complete specific actions that support the achievement of your personally prioritized goals.
The coach may provide additional resources in the form of relevant articles, checklists, assessments, or models, to support your thinking and actions.
The duration of the coaching relationship varies depending on the individual's personal needs and preferences.
Inspired Action Seven Step Process:
- Assess where you are in every area of your life now. Define how satisfied you are with the results and the experience you are having in the ten key areas of life. ** Take the Test Now **
- Design a vision for your ultimate life. If life was as good as it could possibly get, what would it look like?
- Create a five-year vision, a one year plan and quarterly intentions
- Discover the barriers to taking action in the direction of your dreams
- Remove the barriers to success, happiness, fulfillment and accomplishment
- Keep you accountable to the tasks that make the biggest difference in your life
- Support you through the breakdowns and chaos of making your dreams a reality.
Concepts, models and principles - A variety of concepts, models and principles drawn from the behavioral sciences, management literature, spiritual traditions and/or the arts and humanities, may be incorporated into the coaching conversation in order to increase the individual's self-awareness and awareness of others, foster shifts in perspective, promote fresh insights, provide new frameworks for looking at opportunities and challenges, and energize and inspire the individual's forward actions.
Appreciative approach - Coaching incorporates an appreciative approach. The appreciative approach is grounded in what's right, what's working, what's wanted, and what's needed to get there. Using an appreciative approach, your coach models constructive communication skills and methods you can utilize to enhance personal communication effectiveness. The appreciative approach incorporates discovery-based inquiry, proactive (as opposed to reactive) ways of managing personal opportunities and challenges, constructive framing of observations and feedback in order to elicit the most positive responses from others, and envisioning success as contrasted with focusing on problems. The appreciative approach is simple to understand and employ, but its effects in harnessing possibility thinking and goal-oriented action can be profound.
How long does a coach work with an individual?
The length of a coaching agreement begins with a six month term and then moves to a month to month agreement. How long a person stays in coaching varies depending on the individual's needs and preferences.
For certain types of focused coaching, 3 to 6 months of working with a coach may work. For other types of coaching, people may find it beneficial to work with a coach for a longer period. Factors that may impact the length of time include: the types of goals, the speed at which an individual can assimilate quantum leap results, and financial resources available to support coaching.
How do you ensure a compatible partnership?
Your coach will be chosen for you after careful review of your Whole Life Questionnaire, Resistance Worksheet and Wheel Exercise.
You are an active participant in choosing your coach. Just because we assign a coach to you, doesn't mean they are right for you. Your opinion, gut feeling and first impression are important indicators as to whether we have chosen the right coach for you. Don't hesitate to ask for another coach.
Overall, be prepared to design the coaching partnership with your coach. For example, think of a strong partnership that you currently have in your work or life. Look at how you built that relationship and what is important to you about partnership. You will want to build those same things into a coaching relationship. Here are four tips for making this relationship work.
- Look for stylistic similarities and differences between the coach and you and how these might support your growth
- Discuss your goals for coaching within the context of the coach's specialty or the coach's preferred way of working
- Talk with the coach about what to do if you ever feel things are not going well; make some agreements up front on how to handle questions or problems
- Remember that coaching is a partnership, so be assertive about talking with the coach about anything that is of concern at any time.
Within the partnership, what does the coach do? What do I do?
The role of the coach is to…
- Provide objective assessment and observations that foster your enhanced self-awareness and awareness of others
- Practice astute listening in order to garner a full understanding of your circumstances
- Be a sounding board in support of possibility thinking and thoughtful planning and decision making
- Champion opportunities and potential
- Encourage, stretch and challenge you
- Foster the shifts in thinking that reveal fresh perspectives
- Challenge blind spots in order to illuminate new possibilities
- Support the creation of alternative scenarios.
- Finally, the coach maintains professional boundaries in the coaching relationship, including confidentiality, and adheres to the coaching profession's code of ethics.
Your role in the coaching process is to…
- Create the coaching agenda based on personally meaningful coaching goals
- Utilize assessment and observations to enhance self-awareness and awareness of others
- Envision personal and/or organizational success
- Assume full responsibility for personal decisions and actions
- Utilize the coaching process to promote possibility thinking and fresh perspectives
- Take courageous action in alignment with personal goals and aspirations
- Engage big picture thinking and problem solving skills
- Utilize the tools, concepts, models and principles provided by the coach to engage effective forward actions.
What does coaching ask of an individual?
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Focus - on one's self, the tough questions, the hard truths--and one's success |
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Observation - the behaviors and communications of others |
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Listening - to one's intuition, assumptions, judgments, and to the way one sounds when one speaks |
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Self-discipline - to challenge existing attitudes, beliefs and behaviors and to develop new ones which serve one's goals in a superior way |
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Style - leveraging personal strengths and overcoming limitations in order to develop a winning style |
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Decisive actions - however uncomfortable, and in spite of personal insecurities, in order to reach for the extraordinary |
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Compassion - for one's self as he or she experiments with new behaviors, experiences setbacks-and for others as they do the same |
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Humor - committing to not take one's self so seriously, using humor to lighten and brighten any situation |
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Personal control - maintaining composure in the face of disappointment and unmet expectations, avoiding emotional reactivity |
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Courage - to reach for more than before, to shift out of being fear based in to being in abundance as a core strategy for success, to engage in continual self-examination, to overcome internal and external obstacles |
How can the success of the coaching process be measured?
Measurement may be thought of in two distinct ways. First, there are the external indicators of performance: measures which can be seen and measured in the individual's or team's environment. Second, there are internal indicators of success: measures which are inherent within the individual or team members being coached and can be measured by the individual or team being coached with the support of the coach. Ideally, both external and internal metrics are incorporated.
Examples of external measures include achievement of coaching goals established at the outset of the coaching relationship, increased income/revenue, obtaining a promotion, performance feedback which is obtained from a sample of the individual's constituents (e.g., direct reports, colleagues, customers, boss, the manager him/herself), personal and/or business performance data (e.g., productivity, efficiency measures). The external measures selected should ideally be things the individual is already measuring and are things the individual has some ability to directly influence.
Examples of internal measures include self-scoring/self-validating assessments that can be administered initially and at regular intervals in the coaching process, changes in the individual's self-awareness and awareness of others, shifts in thinking which inform more effective actions, and shifts in one's emotional state which inspire confidence.
What are the factors that should be considered when looking at the financial investment in coaching?
Working with a coach requires both a personal commitment of time and energy as well as a financial commitment.
How is coaching distinct from other service professions?
Professional coaching is a distinct service which focuses on an individual's life as it relates to goal setting, outcome creation and personal change management. In an effort to understand what a coach is, it can be helpful to distinguish coaching from other professions that provide personal or organizational support.
- Therapy - Coaching can be distinguished from therapy in a number of ways. First, coaching is a profession that supports personal and professional growth and development based on individual-initiated change in pursuit of specific actionable outcomes. These outcomes are linked to personal or professional success. Coaching is forward moving and future focused. Therapy, on the other hand, deals with healing pain, dysfunction and conflict within an individual or a relationship between two or more individuals. The focus is often on resolving difficulties arising from the past which hamper an individual's emotional functioning in the present, improving overall psychological functioning, and dealing with present life and work circumstances in more emotionally healthy ways. Therapy outcomes often include improved emotional/feeling states. While positive feelings/emotions may be a natural outcome of coaching, the primary focus is on creating actionable strategies for achieving specific goals in one's work or personal life. The emphasis in a coaching relationship is on action, accountability and follow through.
- Consulting - Consultants may be retained by individuals or organizations for the purpose of accessing specialized expertise. While consulting approaches vary widely, there is often an assumption that the consultant diagnoses problems and prescribes and sometimes implements solutions. In general, the assumption with coaching is that individuals or teams are capable of generating their own solutions, with the coach supplying supportive, discovery-based approaches and frameworks.
- Mentoring - Mentoring, which can be thought of as guiding from one's own experience or sharing of experience in a specific area of industry or career development, is sometimes confused with coaching. Although some coaches provide mentoring as part of their coaching, such as in mentor coaching new coaches, coaches are not typically mentors to those they coach.
- Training - Training programs are based on the acquisition of certain learning objectives as set out by the trainer or instructor. Though objectives are clarified in the coaching process, they are set by the individual or team being coached with guidance provided by the coach. Training also assumes a linear learning path which coincides with an established curriculum. Coaching is less linear without a set curriculum plan.
- Athletic Development - Though sports metaphors are often used, professional coaching is different from the traditional sports coach. The athletic coach is often seen as an expert who guides and directs the behavior of individuals or teams based on his or her greater experience and knowledge. Professional coaches possess these qualities, but it is the experience and knowledge of the individual or team that determines the direction. Additionally, professional coaching, unlike athletic development, does not focus on behaviors that are being executed poorly or incorrectly. Instead, the focus is on identifying opportunity for development based on individual strengths and capabilities.
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