Maybe you
have special need to provide one-on-one coaching and its associated
support to a member of your staff or executive? Maybe YOU have
need for this support, or know someone who does?
Coaching
is NOT COUNSELLING!
Counselling
is usually for those perhaps already traumatised and who find themselves
put severely 'out of balance' by their circumstances.
Coaching
on the other hand is for those who need some 'outside' guidance to help
them clarify their thinking and personal strategies on an issue or issues
relating to their professional, career or life/personal experiences.
Of course, they may on occasions, be initially temporarily very unsettled
by these issues, and think they need to see a 'counsellor', but a few
sessions of coaching can achieve wonders in the majority of circumstances.
People who most often benefit from a coach are frequently those who
need someone they can learn to trust. Someone to act as a sounding board,
a confidant, mentor, someone who is good listener, someone to help
THEM identify the way through their current circumstances. Maybe
someone who has been there? The coach needs, by necessity, to come from
outside their immediate peers, work colleagues, friends and family.
That is, someone they can trust with their thoughts, feelings, fears
and confidences. Someone who will listen and NOT pass judgment, other
than as needed in a strictly professional coaching sense. Someone who
can, and will, maintain strict confidentiality! This is a COACH.
If you
would like to have a strictly confidential discussion with Peter
Cook to explore your questions or concerns about Coaching then please
feel free to contact him, as he will be only too pleased to assist you.
Coaching is provided one-on-one; and can be face to face, over the telephone
(often the most popular and effective option), or via Email. Peter's
current client's include small business people, middle and senior/executive
level management in the public and private sectors in both for-profit
and not-for-profit organisations. This includes career academics and
researchers.
