Coaching Process

ACTUALIZE YOUR VISION AND YOUR MASTER PLAN

Kaizen's coaching process enables you to do things you haven't been able to do on your own. Kaizen works in partnership with you to uncover those areas that are holding you back from being your best. We take individuals to higher levels of performance by helping you clarify your vision and focus, identify and overcome obstacles, discover and leverage your strengths... and most important, hold you accountable to achieve the results and changes you want for yourself.

I have to do it myself, but and I can't do it alone.

The coaching process provides energy, motivation and ongoing accountability that facilitates your natural strengths and talents to emerge and shine through, to become aligned with your goals and vision. The result is going beyond what is probable, and realizing what is possible.

The Interview

Through a personal interview, Kaizen assesses your current opportunities and challenges, defines the scope of the relationship, identifies priorities for action, and establishes specific desired outcomes. Kaizen uses a variety of tools to facilitate this process of discovery.

The Role of the Coach

The role of the coach is to provide objective assessment and observations that foster enhanced self-awareness and awareness of others. The coach practices astute listening and is a sounding board in support of possibility thinking and thoughtful planning and decision making. The coach champions opportunities and potential, encourages stretch and challenge commensurate with personal strengths and aspirations, fosters the shifts in thinking that reveal fresh perspectives, challenges blind spots in order to illuminate new possibilities, and supports the creation of alternative scenarios. Finally, the coach maintains professional boundaries in the coaching relationship, including confidentiality, and adheres to the coaching profession's code of ethics.

Your Role

The role of the individual or team is to create the coaching agenda based on personally meaningful coaching goals, utilize assessment and observations to enhance self-awareness and awareness of others, envision personal and/or organizational success, engage big picture thinking and problem solving skills, assume full responsibility for personal decisions and actions, utilize the coaching process to promote possibility thinking and fresh perspectives, and use the tools, concepts, models and principles provided by the coach to take courageous action in alignment with personal goals and aspirations.

Coaching Sessions

Scheduled coaching sessions – typically every 3-5 weeks – are conducted in person or over the telephone to keep the person on track and increase the probability of success. Between scheduled coaching sessions, you may be asked to complete specific actions that support the achievement of personally prioritized goals.

Assessments

Assessments provide objective information which can enhance your self-awareness as well as awareness of others and your circumstances. They also serve as a benchmark for coaching goals and actionable strategies, and offer a method for evaluating progress.

Concepts, models and principles

A variety of concepts, models and principles drawn from the behavioral sciences, management literature, spiritual traditions and/or the arts and humanities, may be incorporated into the coaching conversation in order to increase the individual's self-awareness and awareness of others, foster shifts in perspective, promote fresh insights, provide new frameworks for looking at opportunities and challenges, and energize and inspire the individual's forward actions.

Kaizen's Approach

Kaizen uses an "appreciative approach" that is grounded in what's right, what's working, what's wanted and what's needed to "get there." The appreciative approach incorporates discovery-based inquiry, proactive (as opposed to reactive) ways of managing personal opportunities and challenges, and constructive framing of observations and feedback in order to elicit the most positive responses from others. Rather than focusing on problems, we envision success.

The appreciative approach is simple to understand and employ, but its effects in harnessing possibility thinking and goal-oriented action can be profound.

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