Confidentiality: Coaching is 100% confidential. This is essential to cultivate the trust that coaching requires. If your organization hires us to coach you, then before we begin coaching, you, your coach, and your organization will jointly agree on confidentiality parameters.
Venue & Schedule: We can work together by phone or in person. You get free email support with both. Coaching sessions typically range from 30 minutes to one hour, every one to two weeks. After making significant progress, moving to monthly sessions often makes sense to help you sustain and build on your gains over time.
Getting Started: We’ll begin with a 30-minute exploratory conversation. You get introduced to coaching, we both get a sense of each other, and together, we determine whether the relationship is a good “fit.” Do we have the rapport to be effective together? Is coaching the right next step for you, and am I the right coach for you? We’ll know.
Contact me and we’ll schedule an exploratory conversation in which you can experience the power of coaching. There is no charge for this initial session.
Working Together: Once we commit to work together, the next step is an extended foundation session in which we bring solid clarity to your agenda. You prepare through big-picture reflection. I’ll send you tools to help. You also choose and send any additional background information to me. I prepare by reading through your reflections and any additional material you choose to send.
The Foundation Session: In this extended session (typically 2 hours), we build our coaching relationship – one that requires trust, courage, and honesty on both sides. We also bring laser-like focus to your agenda. What’s most important? Where are you stuck? What skills do you need? What comes first? How will we know when we’re done? Finally, we agree on the frequency, length, and location of future sessions.
You’ll leave this session with clear objectives, tools, and momentum. Tools always include daily practices to help develop your capacities, and may also include questions for reflection, specific, time-bound projects to complete; or external resources to access. We’ll also address specific structures to help support success.
Ongoing Coaching Sessions:
Most sessions follow a four-step flow
- Mood Check: How are you – really?
- Progress Check: What have you accomplished since our last session? What have you noticed? What have you learned? What has unfolded that will affect today’s agenda, and/or your long-term agenda?
- Work for Today: What is your agenda? Sometimes we’ll focus on long-range, big-picture questions, and sometimes we’ll wrestle with immediate challenges. While the choice of each session’s agenda is yours, part of my job is to help you keep the long view that brought you to coaching in the first place.
- What’s Next? What’s most important that you take with you from the session today? Where will you use your focus until our next session? You might choose questions for reflection, specific tasks or projects, regular practices to initiate or strengthen, or outside resources (e.g., key conversations, or reading) to utilize. We create a series of possibilities together. Committing to specific choices is up to you.
How Can I Get the Most Out of Coaching?
While this answer will be as unique as you are, there are some patterns that hold true for enough clients to make them worth sharing:
- Choose goals that are bold and energizing. Align them with your professional development plan. Track them over time.
- Commit to and stay with your daily practices. These build your foundation over time.
- Enlist allies. Consider who will support you from both your professional and personal realms. Bring them on board with your vision for yourself and your work.
- Stand in a place of adventure.
- Become a student of your own life. Develop your ability to observe yourself – with compassion, and without blame.
- Be willing to be “lost” so you can discover new perspectives and new energy.
- Reflect on your experience so that you can capture the learning that emerges along the way. Change course as new learning emerges.
- If your want help, ask!
- Decide ahead of time: “What do I want to get out of my session today?”
- E-mail a report and/or agenda before each session. How are your practices? What have you noticed? What have you learned? What have you accomplished? I’ll provide a form.
- Always remember that you are in the driver’s seat!
Initial Commitment
Clients typically work with me for four to eighteen months or more. In most circumstances, I ask for a three-month minimum commitment, both to help you gauge whether you are truly ready to dive in, and to be sure that we can help you create solid, positive momentum in the direction you want to go.
Coaching Hours & Venue
I normally coach on Monday – Friday from 10 am – 2 pm, Pacific time. Many clients are best served by choosing a standard time to coach each week. Much of my work occurs by phone. On occasion, clients travel to me for extended in-person work.
2010 Coaching Rates
- For-Profit Organizations: $250 per hour, $2500/day
- Academic, Non-Profit, Individual Payer: $200 per hour, $2000/day
Sandpoint Clients: inquire about local rate availability
Rescheduling Appointments
Appointments may be rescheduled up 24 hours in advance without penalty.
Full rates are charged for sessions that are not rescheduled 24 hours in advance.
Billing & Payment
Invoices are sent shortly after the close of each month. Payment is due within 30 days.
