Practical Stuff
Here’s the bit where I tell you about the practical and logistical side of coaching.
The key theme here is that there are no rules about how it has to work.
Some key guidelines include:
We work together in one-to-one sessions either on the telephone or face-to-face or a combination.
Length and frequency of these can be agreed to suit your circumstances. My experience is that 45mins is the optimum coaching time for a telecoaching session and 1-1.5hrs for face-to-face.
Typically, I work with clients over the phone 3 weeks out of 4, face-to-face every fortnight or face-face once a month and a telecoaching session in between.
In between sessions you will have homework assignments or actions to complete. This might take the form of an inquiry - some kind of insight that’s come out of the coaching session, a question or statement to think about. Or it could be specific actions, something to do. Part of my job is to keep you accountable but I’m not the keeper of your to do list.
I provide email support in between sessions.
We will agree the length of time that we will plan to work together at the start of the coaching relationship and that can be re-designed as we go along. I request an initial 3 month commitment. Coaching is about change and this is a good period of time to allow for change to start to take place and to make it past some of the roadblocks that will undoubtedly turn up.
I am based in London and coach international clients using Skype.
I offer executive coaching programmes for organisations.
None of this is set in stone and we can arrange whatever suits us both so please call or email me and we can work together to put together a coaching programme that works for you.