My Philosophy & Approach
Overall
A great coach is a great questioner, a catalyst, and a curious co-explorer, pure and simple. My job isn't to tell you "the answer". After all, how can you truly own something someone else tells you to do? For coaching to work, YOU need to come up with the answers. It's my job to help you do so - through incisive and probing questions that challenge you and push you to look deeply into your problem, your values, and your life.
Tools and Techniques
As an evidence-based practitioner, my deepest belief is that one size does NOT fit all. Every client has different needs, and those needs change with time and circumstance. Therefore, a skilled coach offers a big "toolbox". My most important tool is the incisive question; the question that can open up an issue for you and make you see that issue in a different and more approachable, actionable light. Assessments have their place as well. Tools like the MBTI, DiSC, SDI, and FIRO-B can help me better understand you and your needs and can help you better understand yourself. Models like the Johari Window, the Commino Sextant, and GROW are useful for clarifying coaching challenges and to help you better understand your current situation as well as your real needs and wants. Together we decide what tools we'll use as the coaching process unfolds.
A great coach is a great questioner, a catalyst, and a curious co-explorer, pure and simple. My job isn't to tell you "the answer". After all, how can you truly own something someone else tells you to do? For coaching to work, YOU need to come up with the answers. It's my job to help you do so - through incisive and probing questions that challenge you and push you to look deeply into your problem, your values, and your life.
Tools and Techniques
As an evidence-based practitioner, my deepest belief is that one size does NOT fit all. Every client has different needs, and those needs change with time and circumstance. Therefore, a skilled coach offers a big "toolbox". My most important tool is the incisive question; the question that can open up an issue for you and make you see that issue in a different and more approachable, actionable light. Assessments have their place as well. Tools like the MBTI, DiSC, SDI, and FIRO-B can help me better understand you and your needs and can help you better understand yourself. Models like the Johari Window, the Commino Sextant, and GROW are useful for clarifying coaching challenges and to help you better understand your current situation as well as your real needs and wants. Together we decide what tools we'll use as the coaching process unfolds.
