The Power of Coaching
Coaching is a creative and thought-provoking partnership with clients that inspires them to live up to their full personal and professional potential.
Coaches are trained to listen, to observe, and to customize their approach to individual client needs. The coach’s job is to provide support to enhance the skills, resources, and creativity that the client already has, and elicit solutions and strategies from the client, rather than providing them.
In ongoing relationships, our coaches help clients produce fulfilling results, improving their performance and enhancing the quality of their lives.
What exactly do coaches do?
Coaches assist clients to:
- Identify goals and achieve them
- Develop self-observation skills so they can make new choices that are unavailable to them otherwise
- Reframe beliefs so they are consistent with goals.
How does coaching differ from therapy, consulting, sports coaching, mentoring or having a supportive friend?
- Coaching is not therapy. Therapy seeks to bring awareness and understanding of the past to a client; coaching provides support and strategy to make changes based on their awareness of the present, and their commitments for the future. Therapy deals with what was broken, and how to fix it; coaching deals with how clients can go from “functional” to “extraordinary.”
- Coaching is not consulting. Consulting brings to bear “best practices” and subject-matter knowledge on the client’s situation. Consultants provides solutions to specific problems and often dispense advice. Coaches, on the other hand, assume that the client has the answers, and focuses on “right questions” to elicit solutions from the client.
A coach is a committed, on-going partner assisting clients to implement new skills, practices, thinking and language that is consistent with their declared future possibilities.
- Coaching is not mentoring. Mentors seek to provide guidance and solutions to clients based on their own experiences. Coaching helps clients apply their own experiences and wisdom to their situations and develop solutions for themselves.
- Coaching employs several principles from sports coaching—for example, teamwork, and monitoring and exceeding performance in order to be one’s best. However, unlike sports coaching, the desired results of coaching is not “win or lose.” Coaches focus instead on sustainability of practices, language, ways of being and thinking that produce intended results
- While supportive friends are wonderful, they can seldom provide the objectivity and distance that a coach will. A coach offers a more objective and less personal perspective and a more rigorous commitment to the client’s success.
Who hires a coach?
- Corporations, for coaching related to:
- Organizations/teams
- Leaderships and executives
- Small businesses and entrepreneurs
- Individuals, for coaching related to:
- Relationships
- Career and transitions
- Lifestyle
- Fitness and health
- Finance and wealth
- Meaning and spirituality
Coaches are hired by corporations and individuals because they want:
- Greater satisfaction, balance and peace of mind, more money and better relationships.
- To grow in all aspects of their lives and be more productive.
- To discover innovative ways to do things effortlessly.
Does the coach work on personal goals, or on business/professional goals?
Both. Coaching inevitably works with aspects of a client’s personal, business, and professional goals.
What is the focus of coaching?
Coaches focus on what their clients need most. Questions a coach might help a client address include:
- What are your goals? Are they based in your values?
- Where are you now in relation to where you want to be?
- In order to get what you want from any situation, what are your areas of strength and what are your areas for improvement and focus?
Coaches help their clients maintain focus on their desired commitments and taking actions which will have them succeed.
Why does coaching work?
Coaching creates synergy between the coach and client which in turn, creates momentum. A focus of coaching is for the client to have well-defined goals and move forward on them quickly. In addition, the client develops new language, practices and actions, which translate into a more successful and balanced life.
Why is coaching becoming so popular?
- Many people are tired of doing what they think they “should” do and are ready to do what they want to do.
- Through friends who have experienced it and storied in the media, people are learning that coaching can help them to accomplish goals that previously seemed out of reach.
- More people are investing in themselves, spending the time and resources to accomplish long-held dreams.
- People are seeking deeper meaning in their lives and work.
- Companies are seeking innovative ways to grow themselves from the inside out, so that their goals and their employees’ goals can be reached.
The Coaching Relationship
Coaches offer a confidential environment focused on the client’s objectives and success. Coaching is a guided process designed to unlock the client’s potential and maximize his or her performance. Coaches help business owners, executives and individuals clarify their direction, realize what they can’t see, create time and space in their lives for the things they believe are most important and take effective action.
An effective coaching partnership produces excellent, sustainable performance as well as fulfillment. A primary goal of YESS! coaches is to support clients to become self-generating and self-correcting so their growth continues long past the coach/client relationship.
From a committed relationship with a YESS! certified coach, clients can expect to:
- Continuously expand personal and professional capacity to learn and perform
- Unleash aspirations, move beyond current knowledge and understanding, and maximize results
- Sculpt new patterns of relationships and interactions that result in creative and innovative solutions
- Move through “blind spots” and into the client’s own definition of success
Coaching is about mastering change. Change requires that clients break with habits that have served them well to reach their current level of performance in order to create an unprecedented or previously “impossible” future.
BLANCHARD CONSULTING GROUP, LLC
Blanchard Consulting Group, LLC has trained coaches and trainers worldwide, and we recognize now, more than ever before the simple fact that:
The business of business is often more than just business.
While there is no doubt that the daily practical side of business is critically important, successful entrepreneurs and business executives also know that this is not always enough. In the global market place of today, clearly there is a need for creativity, for personal as well as professional growth in order to succeed and grow their businesses.
Having skilled and effective coaches in your organizations is the best way to create and maintain a culture that works. This is what BCG is best at. Delivering and teaching.
Blanchard Consulting Group assists progressive individuals, executives and leaders in their quest for coaching excellence and peak performance. We do that through dynamic executive coaching and personal and business growth trainings.
The coaching and trainings bring forth renewed vision and aligned actions for new measures of success. Our coaching and family of trainings build effective next generation leaders by illuminating distinct principles and practices of accomplishment, a language of acceleration, and a conversation for action which increases internal velocity and business momentum. We feature three integrated leadership interventions, designed for leadership breakthrough, consciousness elevation, and practical integration that works in the real world.
Our accelerated learning technologies are structured to solve current performance problems and to equip executives with skills to intervene before they occur, resulting in individual and team acceleration with increased responsibility, full participation, effective communication, and outstanding measures of success.
Our motto is “Your success is our success”. We establish a committed partnership with our clients, coaches, and trainers to create a sustainable results-oriented enterprise. In a joint-venture with YESS! — Your Extraordinary Success Strategies, Inc., Blanchard Consulting Group, LLC has built a consortium of professionals who are capable of executing all dimensions of any project we undertake.
YESS! – Your Extraordinary Success Strategies, Inc.
YESS! utilizes proven approaches to coaching that create sustainable and extraordinary results. We offer what no one else can; unparalleled expertise in cultivating the capacity to achieve more than imagined by thinking and acting beyond the “norm.”
Our trainers have nearly 50 years combined experience in coaching, leadership development and organizational effectiveness.
Our certified coaches are trained by us and then hand-selected for our clients so they get the best coaching possible. We have trained over 100 coaches in the last 7 years. Using the best adult learning technologies available. Our coaches learn not only the best coaching techniques, but they practice extensively before they are certified.
We have a large network of associates committed to bringing expertise and action to the success of all our projects.
Biographies
Dr. Ray Blanchard, Chairman, is a master coach, trainer, and seminar designer, and corporate consultant. The founder of BLANCHARD CONSULTING GROUP, LLC., he is also a partner in Transformational Media Group, and he is Co-Executive Producer of the movie THE ANSWER To Absolutely Everything and The Super Seminar.
Ray has delivered coaching, training, and consulting programs to more than 100,000 people himself with lasting results in Japan, New Zealand, Russia, Malaysia, Puerto Rica, Argentina, Mexico, Canada, and the U.S.
Ray has worked with leaders from Fortune 100 companies to privately owned mid-sized companies, such as TOMMY BAHAMAS, AT&T, ASB Bank Ltd in New Zealand, Fletcher-Challenge Ltd., Summit Education, The Legacy Center, Phillips Morris, Worldworks Inc., Sime Darby Berhad, Griggs-Anderson Research, Universiti Pertanian Malaysia Faculty of Economics and Management, and other companies challenged by change on the global playing field.
His deep interest in consciousness and transformational technologies has shaped his approach to work and life. Having lived in Japan for several years, and traveled throughout the world, a wide range of rich life experiences combine to create a unique blend of knowledge and skill. Ray promises to bring a colorful and eclectic blend of perspectives to your organization, or to your Train The Trainer programs.
Dr. Ray is a member of the renowned Transformational Leadership Council and the American Counseling Association. He is a Danforth Fellow and was Senior Board Advisor to Vistar Youth Horizons, Inc., a charitable organization dedicated to the enhancement of youth at risk. His education was focused in East-West Philosophy, Hermetic Philosophy, Counseling Psychology, and Business Administration. He holds a BA and MAEd from Washington University in St. Louis and a Ph.D. from the University of Oregon.
Bettie Spruill, President of YESS!, is a Certified Effectiveness Coach, management consultant, entrepreneur, public speaker and writer with 30 years experience in the field of transformational technology. She is also a certified Master NLP practitioner and a leader in the field of ontological and ecological coaching.
She has successfully trained and managed seminars leaders who now facilitate workshops, trainings and seminars for millions of people all over the world. A dynamic and inspiring woman, she has led experiential effectiveness seminars and workshops in the domains of leadership, purpose and vision, and high performance, for more than 30,000 people in Russia, Malaysia, Puerto Rico, Argentina, Chili, Mexico, England, Hong Kong, Canada, Ghana and the United States of America.
She was Senior Vice President for Lifespring, Inc., one of the largest training and seminar companies in the world. Her leadership responsibilities included product design, the development of trainers, city managers and coaches and balancing million dollar budgets.
In 1981 Bettie attended her first Ontological Coaching Course with Fernando Flores and since then has studied both Eastern and Western philosophy, biology and cognition and the technology of effective communication – the kind of communication that produces action.
Her work has contributed to personal and organizational breakthroughs in effective communication and sustained productivity in multi-national and American companies such as Northwest Airlines, United Airlines, the Harlem Globetrotters, Honeywell, the Breakthrough Foundation, Petronas, TXU, and others.
Bettie co-founded YESS! and has assisted in designing coaching programs for some of the leading coaching academies in the United States and Malaysia. Educated in Sociology, Bettie has spent many hours studying and implementing the latest and most effective thinking and practices that contribute to individuals and organizations having a deep sense of purpose, meaning and responsibility.
Sue Hawkes, CEO of YESS!, is a Certified Management Effectiveness Coach (CMEC), best selling author, entrepreneur and an internationally-recognized seminar leader and speaker who specializes in communication, leadership and organizational effectiveness. She facilitates two chapters of the Women Presidents Organization, working with C-level executives.
She has presented at conferences/meetings for the International Association of Training and Development (ASTD), National Association of Remodelers, Women in Food Service, Women Presidents’ Organization Facilitators, Allied Executives, The Executive Alliance, Eli Lilly – Leadership Conference, SHERM, MN ASTD and many others.
Hawkes leads seminars in the U.S., Mexico, England, Canada and Africa. She has worked with Best Buy, Xcel Energy, Starkey Laboratories, Fallon Worldwide, Green Mill Restaurants, Pawn America, St. Jude Medical, Allied Executives, deBeer Law, Premium Waters (a division of Coca Cola), Eli Lilly and others.
Sue primarily coaches executives and business owners. She has worked with individuals and their teams from owners of small businesses to executives within multi-national corporations. Often in transition and with significant challenges when they work with her, Sue assists professionals in businesses across industries including: retail, professional, manufacturing, restaurant, hospitality, medical and pharmaceutical, as well as government and non-profit institutions.
