Coaching Services
Coaching is a powerful tool that can help you to make extraordinary things happen in your life and in your career – if and when you are truly ready. Whether you are an individual looking to make changes in your personal life, or an executive looking to improve your leadership skills, Finger Consulting can provide the right program for your needs. Coaching programs typically range from three months to a year, with the frequency and length of sessions being customized to your schedule and needs.
About Coaching
Coaching is a process that draws out an individual’s potential. Self awareness is key to actualizing one’s potential, so the coaching engagement will typically begin with some self-assessments. From there, a coaching contract is designed that outlines the goals, timeframe, and structure for the coaching process. During the coaching sessions, your coach will encourage you to experiment with different ways of approaching situations and will be there as a sounding board and guide for fine-tuning those new approaches and gaining greater and greater self-awareness. A coach will listen deeply for the sources of success and the roadblocks to success. Insights and new perspectives are reflected back so that the individual can come up with new ideas for how to approach new and existing challenges.
Unlike internal corporate training or self-improvement courses, which typically focus on technical skills and specific techniques and is delivered to a group of people, coaching relies on the relationship between the individual and the coach to achieve changes in thinking, attitude and behavior. Through this ongoing relationship, sustained behavior change, along with greater satisfaction in one’s work and personal life, can be achieved.
Managers and executives commonly seek out a coach when they want to:
- Prepare for a promotion
- Be a better manager of people
- Improve communication skills
- Learn how to delegate effectively
- Mentor direct reports and offer feedback on their performance
- Be a better leader during times of change
- Transition their careers
- Improve team collaboration skills
- Enhance work/life balance
- Strengthen the quality of decision-making
- Improve workplace relationships
Individuals commonly seek out a personal life coach when they are ready to look at their dreams and desires for the future, and are ready to take the steps necessary for change. A coach will help you to:
- Identify where you want to be in five years
- Set achievable goals
- Determine whether you are maximizing your earning potential
- Pinpoint what might be holding you back in life
- Identify a single change worth making in your life right now
- Improve your self-understanding
- Enhance self confidence and decision-making skills
- Consider whether your relationships are nurturing or draining you
- Honestly look at is health issues
- Figure out whether or not you are living the life you want to be living
Executive Coaching
Do your executives have the interpersonal finesse, change mastery and goal orientation necessary to move your business forward? Successful leaders are aggressive learners. They are self-aware, savvy communicators who constantly seek feedback. If your executives are not exhibiting these traits, executive coaching is the key to developing them. We do an in-depth assessment - including personality workstyle, 360° feedback and interviews - a thorough debrief, action planning and follow-through coaching. These steps ensure that your executives communicate more effectively, can flex their management styles and can coach and mentor others in the organization.
Personal Life Coaching
Often, individuals who have received executive coaching have found it to be so helpful in their work lives that, after the executive coaching engagement is completed, they retain Gail as a personal life coach (on their own) in order to receive the same benefit in their personal lives. In addition, individuals who are going through a career transition, re-entering the workforce, or looking to make any number of personal changes in their lives will seek Gail out as a coach to keep them focused on their goals.
What to look for in a coach:
A great coach will:
- Listen deeply for what you value most in life and will challenge you to live a life congruent with your values.
- Support you and be your greatest advocate.
- Ask you the hard questions and be direct and honest with you.
- Help you to rid yourself of the things that drain your energy and, instead, help you to fill your life with that which brings you joy and satisfaction.
Whether you are engaging Gail for your organization as an executive or management coach, or engaging her as your personal life coach, you can expect her to challenge you to meet the goals you set for yourself, be honest and direct, and to listen deeply for what you value most in life and work.
Are you ready for a coach?
Call today (413-256-4998) for your free introductory session.
Gail Finger
413-256-4998