Fequently Asked Questions

How does coaching differ to therapy?

Therapy tends to focus on the resolution of old pains and old issues. It tends to deal with dysfunction, resistance and negative transference.

Coaching on the other hand is about moving forward and achieving goals. It encourages pro-active behaviours and moves a person on to greater success.

How does coaching differ to mentoring?

Mentoring in its traditional form was a hierarchical relationship involving a senior person who has progressed in his/her career and who can provide advice, knowledge and wisdom. Mentors are generally recognised as experts in their field and assist with career advancement.

Coaching is about evoking answers from a person through exploring and developing a person’s own values, visions and standards. Coaching allows the person to discover their own answers.

What are the benefits of hiring a coach?

Coaches can help you to tap into your own potential and/or creativity. They can help you increase your ability to be able to cope with and welcome change and transitions. They can also help you improve your confidence, relaxation time, professional performance and overcome fears and anxieties.

Coaches love what they do because they enjoy helping people get what they most want in life.

Why do people hire coaches?

People hire coaches to help them reach their goals, make change in their career or life, to set and implement goals, to brainstorm with someone, improve relationships, become a better person and/or to strengthen their direction or who they are.

Who hires coaches?

Companies hire coaches to work with their managers. Small businesses hire coaches to help improve and/or expand their business. Everyday people hire coaches to help improve work performance or identify their direction in life or to help get out of a rutt. Athletes hire coaches to improve their sports performance.

As you can see people from all walks of life hire coaches. Hiring a Coach helps you find meaning and sacredness in your everyday life.

How do your coaches work with their clients?

Our Coaches listen with an open heart, ask questions, lend support and are their client’s cheering squad. They are patient, caring and respectful. They may sometimes ask hard questions or challenge their clients but this is always for the good of the client.

What is the advantage of coaching online?

Both types of coaching has benefits. Coaching online provides a means for people that are on time constraints because online coaching elimiates travel, finding parking and all the expense that goes with it. It is also handy for those people that live in remote places and do not have access to attend face-to-face coaching.

Online coaching is not for everyone but it does suit many people.