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Wendi Gardner, PCC
LIVING YOUR VISION®
• What is Living Your Vision®?
• Who is Living your Vision® for?
WORKSHOPS & SEMINARS
• What workshops & seminars do you offer?
• Women in Transition
• Healthy Options for Health Care Professionals
• Ala Carte Workshops
 … What is Corporate “Coaching for Life”?
Professional coaching is being successfully embraced by a number of corporations around the world as a way to support and retain their employees.
Coaching is often considered as a shift away from analytical, quantitative business skills towards more personal, interpersonal and organizational skills. In addition to the business and project management skills needed by a successful employee, today's employee requires support in building personal and communication skills, while clarifying ethical values in their work life.
A coach can help that employee sort out their career goals and also what they want to achieve not just in their job, but in their marriage, partnership or life. It's really about providing the person with the skills, tools and the knowledge so that they are better suited to deal with today's complex work world. This, in turn, leads to a more satisfied and well-rounded work force. Margaret Krause, a former human resources manager with Hyatt Hotels International, believes coaching fills a need in the corporate world for human contact, professional advice and old-fashioned mentoring. “There are many companies that are being proactive in bringing in coaching and mentoring programs.” ¹ By supporting their leading performers, many organizations find the cost of coaching is insignificant compared with the cost of replacing burned-out employees, or the loss of productivity with employees who are not working up to their potential. Inside every successful businessperson is an even more ambitious one trying to get out. He or she just needs a little help. According to a 1999 statistic, losing a professional mid-level employee costs a company $15,000 or more in recruitment, training and lost productivity.
The Process...
Coaching provides the discipline, focus, structure and support to help employees thrive. In a definitive way, the objectives of coaching are:
to help individuals gain clarity about issues
to create an action plan toward their goals
to provide accountability to help them accomplish their goals.
Initial Assessment...
The coaching process begins with a personal and professional assessment of where the individual is now and where they want to be. A number of tools are utilized to assist in clarifying issues, goals, and values. This intensive personal evaluation is where the decisions are made about what the individual wants, followed by the goal setting and planning.
Depending on the particular situation, this may also include an interview with the employee's supervisor, to get a clear assessment of his/her expectations and available support. The assessment interview includes education about the coaching process and tools used to keep the individual on task.
Coaching Sessions...
Once the plan is made, ongoing coaching support is most effective when conducted in half-hour weekly sessions. These weekly sessions are frequently conducted by phone, although may be done in person and/or email. The benefit of these weekly sessions is that coaching explores what can be done to move closer to the goals, and provides the encouragement and accountability to do so, on a regular and consistent basis. I conduct a highly structured coaching program in which clients fill out questionnaires before each session so that coaching is goal-driven rather than exploratory. Clients themselves identify their key objectives week to week. Depending on preference, some clients really want to be held to the task. They want to be held accountable each week around the exercise program, or perhaps the communications course that they've signed up for. Others are very self-motivated and driven and they use coaching more as a sounding board. During the session, we renew the previous commitments, preview opportunities, examine obstacles, brainstorm options and choose the next course of action. These weekly sessions are designed to provide forward movement toward goals. Each coaching session has a specific format and focus. The following are the basic components:
a check-in regarding what is happening now or has happened in the past week.
the focus or specific issue to be explored during that session; for example, what challenges, concerns, achievements or areas of requested learning are to be explored.
what action was taken since the last session and to what result.
what agreements or declarations will be made for the next week to further the goals.
A minimum of four months of coaching, with occasional follow up sessions, is ideal for improved performance and behavior changes.
Evaluation...
Upon completion of the four months, we evaluate the value for individual and the company, as well as the need for continued sessions.
Benefits of Coaching
What happens when you hire a Coach?
Many things, but the most important are:
you take yourself more seriously.
you take more effective and focused actions - immediately.
you stop putting up with what is dragging you down.
you create momentum so it's easier to get results.
you set better goals that you might not have without a coach.
These coaching sessions work because:
you set higher, more rewarding professional and personal goals
the coach holds you accountable
the coach asks more of you than others or you normally would ask
the coach works with you to trust your intuition, take action and improve your communication and interpersonal skills.
The Top Ten Benefits to a Corporation When Bringing in Outside Coaches²
Relief valve for key employees.
The company's Stars and Fast-Trackers get the special attention they need.
The company's vision is expanded and employee buy-in is greatly increased.
Increased productivity, quickly.
Everyone becomes a coach.
Increases the company's ability to adapt, change, be flexible and respond quickly
Elimination of in-house roadblocks, potholes, dead-ends and blocks to reaching objectives.
The company becomes more entrepreneurial.
The company attracts the best talent.
Reduction of corporate politics.
¹ "Someone to Watch Over You", by Mark Chiperfield, The Australian Financial Review, 10/9/00.² Authored by Thomas J. Leonard. 1-800-48COACH, info@coachu.com, www.coachu.com Copyright 1996 by Coach University, Inc.
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… What is Living your Vision?It is a powerful process for people who are passionate about living fully. Wendi is pleased to announce the newest service added to her business... "Living Your Vision®". Wendi is now a licensed Living Your Vision® coach as well as a Certified Professional Coach. Living Your Vision® is a highly interactive process that delivers:
Clarity
Discover and clarify your vision and purpose
Rediscover your power and passion
Reveal your inner source of wisdom and guidance
Alignment
Establish a master plan to achieve your goals
Become more focused and organized
Increase your effectiveness and productivity
Action
Enthusiastically take effective actions
Go beyond your previous limitations
Move to a greater sense of wholeness
Who is Living your Vision® for?
"I'm thinking of starting a new business/career"
"I'm so busy that I don't have time for anything or anybody…or to do what I want"
"I have a lot of great, bold ideas but I go nowhere with them"
"I'm going through a big transition in my life"
"I'm losing sleep over my relationships"
"I want to develop a high-level network and/or full practice/business"
"I want to make and keep more money"
"It's time to blow the roof off my business and I need a plan"
It is not enough to WANT to be successful…
Whether you want to achieve break-through performance in your career, launch a new business, bring your life into balance, discover what is next, make a career change, or learn to enjoy life more…
it takes purposeful ACTION!
Having what you want requires:
Clarity of vision and purpose
Believing that it is possible
A strong support structure
A solid foundation of planning
Courage to take action
Commitment to follow through
… What workshops & seminars do you offer?
WOMEN IN TRANSITION
Women face many transitions in a life where clarity about the issue and supportive action can help them gain greater satisfaction and move to the next higher level.
This may be at a time when a woman has devoted a number of years to raising her family and is ready to focus some of her attention on her own interests.
It may be related to handling life balance issues with family, career, personal relationships, as well as physical health and wellness.
Or maybe a woman decides she wants more out of her life, work and relationships. This workshop addresses these and other issues by helping the participants rediscover their life's passion, clarify what they want next and develop an action plan to attain their goals.
HEALTHY OPTIONS FOR HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS
Today's health care professional is in the paradoxical position of trying to promote better health, while working in toxic, stressful environments. They are being asked to do more and more with fewer resources. Many have forgotten why they came to health care because their inherent desire to care for others seems diminished in comparison to the other stresses.
This workshop provides the tools to clarify whether they want to stay in their current environment and create a healthy balance for themselves, or if they want to transfer their skills to another setting. From there they develop an action plan to carry out their desires.
ALA CARTE WORKSHOPS
What workshops do you want for your group or workplace?
Upon request, workshops are specifically designed to meet your needs and topics may include:
Rediscovering Your Passion
Transitions...
Staying on Track
Parent as “Coach”
Manager as “Coach”
Powerful Communication
Balanced Business Planning
FOLLOW UP COACHING
Follow up coaching is the perfect augmentation to the above classes. Coaching is the next logical step once the plan is made.
The workshop helps the client create the plan and coaching provides the ongoing support to help them take action. It provides a supportive, partnership that moves them forward to help them accomplish their plan.
If you would like to learn more about coaching and my services, please contact me at: Wendi Loveland Gardner, PCC
Professional Certified Coaching
(Phone) (206) 522-7884 • (Fax) (206) 522-8092
coach@wendigardner.com I am committed to providing you affordable and extraordinary Professional Personal Coaching services. Call for an introductory coaching session TODAY.
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