What a few experts say about Coaching?

How does Coaching work?

What is Life Coaching?

What is the Definition of Coaching?

What is Christian Life Coaching?

How does Coaching differ from Therapy?

How does Coaching differ from Consulting?

How does Coaching differ from Mentoring?

How does Coaching differ from NLP?

About Coaching with Deborah Oresegun

The Top 20 Reasons to Work with a Coach

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What a few experts say about Coaching?

"Who exactly seeks out a coach? Winners who want even more out of life." -- Chicago Tribune

"Executives and HR managers know coaching is the most potent tool for inducing lasting personal change." -- Ivy Business Journal

"Between 25 percent and 40 percent of Fortune 500 companies use executive coaches." --Recent survey by The Hay Group, International

How does Coaching work?

Coaching is usually done by phone, so it doesn't matter if you live on the west coast and I'm on the east coast. Coaching support is just a phone call away. It is scheduled based on the client and coaches availability just like you might schedule a doctor's appointment.   My office hours are 8 to 5pm EST. 

It is placed on your calendar like any other meeting or activity, however, it is important that the client schedules uninterrupted time to focus so he/she can get the most of your coaching session.

While 80% of Coaching is done by phone, 20% is done in person depending upon the nature of what you're working on together. In the case of face-to-face sessions, the geographical location of the coach and client becomes important.  You may go to the coach’s office space; he/she may come to your office or you can meet in a designated location.

I primarily coach by phone unless I am involved in a live conference or event or brought into an organization.

Coaching is normally done in a series for three to six months to achieve results.  For instance, you may enroll in a three - sixty minutes coaching sessions every seven to ten days per month for a six month period of time to reach your goal for growing your new business. 

The best coaching results are achieved when clients commit to continuing a coaching program until they achieve their desired results.   It is not uncommon to maintain a coach for twelve months or longer based on desired personal and professional goals.

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What is Life Coaching?

Professional Coaching has been around for over fifty years. It is one of the best things that the last decade has produced in the arena of self-help, personal and professional development improvement, and psychology.  While often referred to as Life Coaching, it includes life and work; for the personal and professional aspects of life; by executives and entrepreneurs.

Coaching focuses on providing an individual with information, structured support and accountability to make positive life changes and meet personal and professional goals.

What is the definition of Coaching?

The International Coaching Federation defines Coaching as an ongoing professional relationship that helps people produce extraordinary results in their lives, careers, businesses or organizations.

Through the process of coaching, clients deepen their learning, improve their performance, and enhance their quality of life.

In each meeting, the client chooses the focus of conversation, while the coach listens and contributes observations and questions. This interaction creates clarity and moves the client into action. Coaching accelerates the client's progress by providing greater focus and awareness of choice. Coaching concentrates on where clients are now and what they are willing to do to get where they want to be in the future. ICF credentialed coaches recognize that results are a matter of the client's intentions, choices and actions, supported by the coach's efforts and application of the coaching process.

What is Christian Life Coaching?

Christian Life Coaching is based in the Judeo-Christian faith upon Biblical based principles.  It is the process of providing spiritual direction to an individual or organization by sharing sharing tools, processes and structures grounded in spiritual principles to enable clients to solve problems, achieve purpose and live more abundantly.   It includes the following:

• The process by which a life coach helps the client to discern and understand what God is doing or saying so they are better equipped to cope or change a situation including health issue, job challenge, marital discord, lost of a love one, abuse and other life challenges.

• Establishing an interpersonal relationship in which one can learn, grow and love in their personal or professional life including job lost and career advancement, business ventures and life transitions.

• Helps a person to develop spiritually using Biblically based principles.  This development can include uncovering and utilizing new gifts in a career or ministry calling. 

How does Coaching differ from Therapy?

About life Coaching: “The personal coach maintains a focus on the goals the client decides she or he would like to achieve to live a more fulfilling life where their values are honored. It is a collaborative effort that propels the individual to continually move toward the goal.  Coaching is forward focus with attention to the past being for the purpose of clarifying the present and resolving issues that will conflict with future success.

In Coaching the assumption is that client is whole, there is nothing wrong with him/her, but the client wants an even better life. In coaching the focus is on the client’s entire life including health, relationships, career, spirituality, etc., and how it all fits together.”  In the case of executive coaching the focus is on the individual leader achieving goals for the good of the organization.

Therapy: “In psychotherapy the assumption is that there is something wrong that gets in the way of a person’s functioning that needs fixing.   The client may be stuck and struggling and need to heal from past trauma.  Client may also have a mental illness or clinical diagnosis that the therapist will treat.  Therapy is normally not goal driven, so it may lack structure.  In psychotherapy the main focus is on the client’s internal world.”  Therapy is normally focused on an individual or group such as family.
- By: Dr Edward A. Dreyfus, Los Angeles, CA

How does Coaching differ from Consulting?

A Consultant provides a specialized support to a client taking responsibility for a project or task by meeting deadlines and providing deliverables.  A consultant seeks to use his/her professional experience and knowledge with to advance the client's objectives. On the other hand a Coach seeks to empower the client to be successful using his/her talents, gifts and abilities.  The coach holds the client as resourceful and capable of creating personal and professional success supported by the coach

Coaches may share professional expertise with clients permission however, the main focus is to bring out the hidden potential in client.

How does Coaching differ from Mentoring?

There are many similarities between coaching and mentoring! Mentoring, particularly in its traditional sense, enables an individual to follow in the path of an older and wiser colleague who can pass on knowledge, experience and open doors to otherwise out-of-reach opportunities. Coaching on the other hand is not generally performed on the basis that the coach has direct experience of their client’s formal occupational role unless the coaching is specific and skills focused.

Coaching is a process that enables learning and development to occur and thus performance to improve. To be a successful a Coach requires a knowledge and understanding of process as well as the variety of styles, skills and techniques that are appropriate to the context in which the coaching takes place.

How does Coaching differ from NLP?

The techniques and models of NLP are very useful within the framework of coaching. NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming also termed Neuro Linguistic Psychology) originated by John Grinder, a linguistics Specialist, is best described by Robert Dilts in his article "What is NLP?" NLP provides tools and skills for the development of states of individual excellence, but it also establishes a system of empowering beliefs and presuppositions about what human beings are, what communication is and what the process of change is all about.  

At another level, NLP is about self-discovery, exploring identity and mission. It also provides a framework for understanding and relating to the 'spiritual' part of human experience that reaches beyond us as individuals to our family, community and global systems. NLP is not only about competence and excellence, it is about wisdom and vision."  

On the other hand, the term "coaching" is a larger umbrella that encompasses many techniques, methodologies and specialities, and NLP can and does fit underneath that umbrella too. A coach might be trained as an NLP coach and primarily utilize the NLP technique in his or her coaching, or NLP could be used as one of many tools that a coach uses based on the unique issues and challenges faced by their clientele.

About Coaching with Deborah Oresegun

While there is presently no specific training legally required to call yourself a "coach", training and certification is highly recommended.  As with any other field, a serious professional will ensure that they are trained and prepared for the job. There are many certification schools, programs and support organizations available for professional training and advancement which are highly recommended and a requirement of any coach working with Deborah Oresegun or Soulutions, Inc. 

Deborah received her professional coaching certification in 2002 and 2004 through the Coaches Training Institute and additional training through the Graduate School of Coaching founded by the late Thomas Leonard, known as the grandfather of coaching. She has been practicing since 2002 when she launched her business Soulutions, Inc. 

Deborah is also a member of the Georgia Coaches Association and the International Coaching Federation.  Deborah is also a certified in Neuro Linguistic Psychology and a member of the American Board of NLP .  Additionally, Deborah has studied the new field of psychology known as Positive Psychology. 

In addition to Deborah's Coaching and Psychology training, she utilizes her background in Information Technology to assess, analyze and support her clients in resolving issues her clients bring her. 

Deborah's coaching practice and organization holds a Christian world view and most of her clients operate from the same faith.   They use this faith to inform their career, business, family and other major areas of life. 

Deborah supports clients in making  career transitions, launching businesses, coping with relationship challenges, working through children and parenting issues and more.

Over the past ten years she has supported hundreds of clients to achieve success in their personal and professional lives.

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"Coaching is the number two growth industry right behind IT (Information Technology) jobs, and it's the number one home-based profession." -- Starts--Up Magazine

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The Top 20 Reasons to Work with a Coach

Here’s a Checklist to help you to determine if you can benefit from working with a Life Coach.  If you have a challenge with any of the areas below, coaching can help you in the following ways:

1. Clarity – Gaining clarity about a situation, issue or problem that you are dealing with business/career, relationships, health, finances, personal growth etc . . .   
2. Direction - Seeing the possibilities and knowing which path is best
3. Focus - Concentrating on what's truly important in your personal and professional life.
4. Available Time - Less time sponges = more free time; support in determining what to let go of and what to start.
5. Doing Successful Things - Concentrating on what's going to have the desired impact; knowing what to do; Making sound decisions.
6. Doing Things Successfully - Concentrating on efficiency and delegation; creating successful practices.
7. Follow thru - Preparation and completion of what you start and no more procrastination.
8. Commitment - Full investment into the process & outcome.
9. Financial Success – Making wise decisions about your money and focusing on ways to earn more money as you spend as necessary and save
10. Support from Others – Creating a dependable support network for your family and professional matters.
11. Balance – Healthy balance between Family, Work and your own personal well-being and care.
12. Communication – Improve your communication in that relationship where it just seems like you’re not being heard; understand that communication is more than just what you say; learn some Neuro-Linguistic Programming techniques i.e. internal language of success.
13. Cooperation – create synergy in your relationships so people want to do there part
14. Energy – Learn ways to lower your stress level and heighten your energy level by looking at your health – emotional, physical, and spiritual well-being
15. Family Focus – Creating a healthy family and children.  Resolving those individual and group family issues.
16. Relationships – Working through the your relationship problems to achieve more harmony in your relationship (i.e. with your professional associate, significant other, child, parent, sibling)
17. Healthy Body & Fitness – Remove emotional blockages and patterns that are keeping you from being your healthiest you.
18. Spiritual Development – Broadening your scope and understanding of your spiritual beliefs and principles.
19. Personal Development – Learn more about yourself, evolve, expand and discover more about the world around you.
20. Purpose Driven – Get support understanding your life’s purpose and develop a mission/vision statement to support your life's purpose.

For those of you who may not be familiar with NLP, it is most widely known as the tool Tony Robbins used to launch his multi-million dollar empire.  Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) is a behavioral technology, which simply means that it is a set of guiding principles, attitudes, and techniques about real-life behavior, and not a removed, scientific theorem. It allows you to change, adopt or eliminate behaviors, as you desire, and gives you the ability to choose your mental, emotional, and physical states of well- being. With NLP, you learn how to grow from every single life experience, thus increasing your ability to create a better quality of life. NLP is a very pragmatic technology based on an ability to produce your desired results, thus allowing you to become proficient at creating your future!

"NLP… theoretical underpinnings represent an ambitious attempt to codify and synthesize the insights of linguistics, body language, and the study of communication systems." -- Psychology Today

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