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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ’s)
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Here you’ll find answers to some commonly asked questions. If you can’t find the answer that you’re looking for, please don’t hesitate to contact us.
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Q: Why hire a Coach?
A: When you hire a coach, you've invested in a partnership whose sole purpose is to help you to become more successful, regardless of how you measure success. You determine the direction that you want to go, and your coach helps you to get there, as quickly, efficiently, and as effectively as is possible. Synergistic in nature (the whole is greater than the sum of the parts), a coaching relationship insures that you will always get a greater return than your initial investment. Whether you want to pursue a passion, reinvent your career, fulfill your leadership potential, improve your business, or transform your life, Coaching Works. |
Q: What should I be looking for in a coach?
A: Since coaching is relationship driven, hiring a coach that "fits" best with who you are and the direction you’re headed is of essence. If you feel energized, motivated, and alive with possibility with your coach, you're on the right track. Your coach should bring experience, perspective, confidence, optimism, insight, and wisdom to the table, along with a well stocked "tool box" filled with items that expand your awareness, improve your clarity and focus, and facilitate successful achievement of your goals. Having the ability to be both highly supportive and constructively challenging is a must. In addition, your coach should be a skillful questioner, an excellent listener, a friend, business partner, cheerleader, consultant, and confidant. The bottom line: your coach should be someone with whom you trust will bring out the very best in who you are, regardless of what you bring to the table. |
Q: Do I need a coach or a therapist?
A: While coaching and therapy have many commonalities (including active listening, skillful questioning, feedback, reframing, goal setting, being relationally driven, etc.), there are significant differences that set them apart. For instance:
- Therapy bridges the distance between where you've been in the past, and where you are now
- Coaching bridges the distance between where you are now, and where you'd like to be in the future
- Therapy reconciles missed opportunity
- Coaching recognizes and realizes present and future opportunity
- Therapy is process driven
- Coaching is results driven
- Therapy focuses on making that which doesn't seem to be working, to work
- Coaching focuses on making that which is already working, to work that much more successfully
- In effect, therapy heals a wound, and coaching ignites a spark.
Both are powerful tools. Understanding their differences will help you to determine which one will work best. Should you need further clarification, please don't hesitate to contact us. |
Q: What makes our public speaking and television talent coaching services unique?
A: Bob DeMers provides Public Speaking and Television Talent Coaching services for Coaching Works. With 20 years broadcasting experience as a meteorologist for various television and radio stations across the country (Portland, Maine, Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Dallas and Austin, Texas), and 13 years as a licensed therapist and professional coach in private practice, Bob has the experience, training, insight, and perspective to effectively, consistently, and quickly deliver top-notch results to those seeking to improve their on-air and public speaking performance. |
Q: What are the fees for your coaching and consulting services?
A: Fees for our coaching and consulting services vary depending on the clientele served, and types of services offered. Please contact us for a rate quote. |
Q: Can I schedule a free consultation?
A: Because the quality of the coaching relationship is vital towards achieving a successful outcome, spending some time getting to know one another before making the decision to move forward is of utmost importance. With that in mind, initial consultations are always free. During this time, we'll both have the opportunity to ask and have our questions answered. If we both agree that we're a good fit, we'll move ahead. If not, you'll have more information with which to continue your search for a coach. Regardless of the outcome, we'll both benefit from our experience. |
Q: What is the standard format for coaching?
A: Each coaching session typically lasts for an hour, although session length can be customized based on client needs. New clients typically commit to 5-10 coaching sessions over a 3-6 month period, although both the number and frequency ultimately depends on targeted goals and desired outcomes established by the client.
Appointments can be completed in person or by phone. Please note that our home office is located in Charlotte, North Carolina. Should you live outside of this area, and desire to meet face to face, arrangements can be made to meet anywhere in the country (additional fees will be applied). We'll be more than happy to work with you in providing arrangements that best meet your needs. Please contact us for more information. |
Q: How do I make an appointment?
A: Making an appointment is easy to do. Whether you're interested in setting up a free initial consultation, or scheduling an appointment, simply contact us, complete the form, and submit it back to Coaching Works. Within 48 business hours (weekends excluded), we'll contact you directly to schedule your appointment. |
Q: What is Emotional Composting™?
A: Emotional Composting is a practical, powerful, and compelling emotional management strategy, which leverages the wealth of information inherent in emotions, towards improved relationship efficiency, effectiveness, and performance. Whether it’s business, professional, or personal, emotional composting recycles the most nutritious elements of emotional experience into a rich and fertile “emotional compost” (improved awareness, perspective, focus, insight, clarity, communication, trust, wisdom, vision, creativity, innovation, passion, opportunity, emotional intelligence, etc.). In turn, this can be leveraged towards future personal, professional, or business success, in much the same way that organic composting leverages the most nutritious elements of discarded organic remains toward the success of future plant growth.
By providing a quantum pathway which both uncovers and illuminates win-win emotional solutions, Emotional Composting eliminates win-lose/lose-lose emotional “pollution”. Among other things, Emotional Composting improves:
- Vision, clarity, and focus
- Levels of trust with self and others
- Alignment between values, goals, mission, and vision
- Motivation, innovation, creativity, productivity, performance, and teamwork
- Change, choice, and relationship management strategies
- Conflict resolution skills
- Stress management
- Interpersonal communication effectiveness
- Ethical decision making processes
- Thought leadership
- Emotional intelligence competencies
- Personal growth and development
- Professional growth and development
- Leadership growth and development
- Organizational/business culture growth and development
For those committed to both experiencing and sustaining the highest levels of success, Emotional Composting provides the necessary key to achieve it.
For further information, please contact Coaching Works. |
Q: What is a ChangeGrid™?
A: The ChangeGrid™, developed twenty-five years ago through the brilliance of T. Falcon Napier, is a profoundly simple, powerfully revealing, and extremely practical change management tool, used for identifying, optimizing, and leveraging internal tension towards achieving targeted goals and objectives. Internal tension consists of thoughts, feelings, beliefs, and perceptions – anything emanating from within - that drives individuals, teams, managers, supervisors, executives, or entire organizations towards achieving intended goals and objectives.
Since change is always a constant, applications for the ChangeGrid™ are universal. This is a highly leveragable tool - used for all forms of coaching, consulting, career development, team building, sales training, managerial training, HR development, leadership development, business/organizational development - any arena where change for the better is desired, regardless of situation or circumstance. For more in-depth information on the ChangeGrid™, click here. |
Q: What is the WorkPlace Big Five ProFile (WB5P)?
A: The WorkPlace Big Five ProFile (WB5P) is a personality assessment tool that identifies personality traits along five dimensions of personality, including:
- Need for Stability (N)
- Extroversion (E)
- Originality (O)
- Accommodation (A)
- Consolidation (C)
Developed by Pierce J. Howard, Ph.D. and Jane Mitchell Howard, M.B.A., the WB5P is based on a factorial analysis which identified the 5 smallest synonym clusters of personality descriptors accounting for the largest variation in personality differences among people. It provides a straight-forward, in-depth, multi-faceted, strength-focused assessment of personality traits and preference, that can be used to optimize performance and strategy at any level of an organization, including front-line employees, teams, departments, supervisors, managers, and senior executives. For more information on the WB5P, and how it can be leveraged towards your success, please contact us. |
Q: What other types of services does Coaching Works offer?
A: In addition to our broad expanse of coaching services, Coaching Works offers personality assessments, business consulting, communication skills development, presentation skills development, group facilitation, team building, trust building, sales training, organizational development, and leadership training and development services, all of which are fully customizable. We’ll be more than happy to work with you to best meet your needs. |
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