Creating Tomorrow

Wishing you all a joyous Holiday Season!

 Dear Friends,

Over on one of my favorite sites, WebWorkerDaily, Amber Riviere wrote an article* outlining what she has gained from working for the last three (!) years with her accountability partner.

Because one of my main functions as a coach is the rôle I play as my clients’ “accountability partner”, I was not at the least surprised by Amber’s list:

1. More Focus: Working with an accountability partner shifts your attention away from your varied lists of individual tasks and projects to the bigger picture of your overall business or career objectives. Doing this allows you to set a benchmark against which you can now measure each of the ideas that pop into your mind or the projects you undertake. Once you decided that an idea or project pays into your achieving your goal, you are even more motivated to add that particular piece (i.e. that specific completed task or project) to your professional puzzle.

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Dear Friends,

Tomorrow Lillian Ogbogoh (Waking Passion) and I will be conducting the final session of a telecourse that is part of her “Releasing Your Inner Diva” teleseminar series. In this telecourse, “Putting Down Your ‘S’: Don’t Turn ‘Help’ Into A 4-Letter Word“, we have been discussing a phenomenon that has contributed greatly to the imbalance in life that many women (and also some men) suffer from. Somewhere on the road to equality we got the idea that we not only had to “have it all”, but also to “do it all” along the way.

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Dear Friends,

If you have never been coached, do you know how a typical coaching relationship works? You can actually divide a coaching relationship into seven distinct phases. Although in practice one phase may flow into another, the following description gives you a good idea of what you can - and should - expect from your coaching agreement.

1. The Introductory Session - In this initial meeting the coach and coachee get to know one another better by discussing professional backgrounds, identifying the key coaching issue, and deciding how they could best work together. During this phase the foundation for a trusting coaching relationship should be established. If this meeting goes well, the actual coaching objective, as well as the recommended length of the coaching relationship, may be discussed.

2. The Coaching Agreement - Once you have established that there is a positive wavelength between you and your perspective coach (and vice-versa!), it’s time to define the framework for your coaching relationship. What are your goals and expectations? How many sessions will you need? Where should they take place and when? What if you have to cancel? And, also important: What is this all going to cost?

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