What is Coaching?

International Coaching Federation (ICF) defines coaching as partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential. The process of coaching often unlocks previously untapped sources of imagination, productivity and leadership.

We all have goals we want to reach, challenges we’re striving to overcome and times when we feel stuck. Partnering with a coach can change your life, setting you on a path to greater personal and professional fulfilment.

What should you expect from coaching?

A coach is your thinking partner, not just a dumb sounding board. Coach listens, reflects back and also challenges you. Coaches maturity, training and practice demonstrated through the process of coaching help you discover new insights, raise self-awareness, get clarity, feel unstuck, make new decisions, create action plan, hold yourself accountable, and much more eventually leading to fulfilment. In a coaching conversation it is your ideas and thoughts that get discussed, coach will be your partner in this.

As a leadership, transformation and overall wellness coach I partner with my clients to support them lead their life, their career, and their business the way they want to. I also partner with them to discover what they want.

My clients are looking for a partner to talk to about their own development, a relationship they want to improve, a business situation they want to deal with, starting a new business, an idea they want ideate, stress they want overcome, or overall wellness goals they want to achieve.

What will a coach not do?

  • Push their ideas

  • Push a solution they think is right

  • Influence you to think in a certain way

Use Case

Use Case 1: Pramod sat at his desk satisfied with the round of discussions he had with his directs. It was a tough transition that they managed over the last 2 years. Now he is confident that he is positioned to scale his business and achieve all the goals, in fact this situation helped him . It was not easy when he presented his idea to his directs and his key stakeholders they all felt that he was being paranoid about AI and its impact on their business. Most of them did not agree with his plan to transform the organisation to get ready for the AI transition. They believed that it will change the character of their org. He had more detractors than promoters among his directs as a result of which all his plans were stuck. He had lot of ideas but was not sure how to progress and he could not see a clear path ahead.

His mentor suggested him to hire a coach who can help him to think clearly and achieve his goals. Pramod got in touch with a coach. By the second meeting he knew what he wanted to do. He could see the risks as well as what his actions will be. Some of those decisions were tough but he had the conviction to go ahead. His first engagement with the coach was for 3 months and the met for 40 minutes every 15 days. After that he had again contracted with the coach on multiple occasions when he felt he could benefit by having a thinking partner. Now he has a contract with the coach to meet once every quarter. This helps him ideate and discuss issues which he otherwise could not discuss with anyone else.

The first meeting was called the chemistry call in which the Pramod understood the process of coaching and also realised that he could trust the coach with his thoughts and ideas. After this meeting they signed a coaching contract which detailed how