Success story – Karen

Karen came to me nearing the end of her coaching course with Newcastle College,  Having been a teacher and more recently the training director in a small IT consultancy, she had identified coaching as an authentic way to extend her love of working with people. Karen wanted support on the transition from coaching theory to practice – getting the most out of structuring sessions, understanding how to be effective on working with clients, and setting up the logistics so that they fit with her natural style.

Her main goals for coaching were greater focus, getting past some blocks on productivity, and making the move to being a successful, independently financially secure, coach.   

Karen & I worked on a combination of powerful coaching questions & sharing tips and techniques on how she could handle specific coaching situations she had – working on my experience as a coach to help her see different perspectives on how she could handle it – and getting rid of any feelings of how she SHOULD handle it!

Together we worked on how to start adding systems and controls to the business, to make it easier to concentrate on using skills rather than worrying about elements like talking to a client for the first time – getting clear with Karen on what she wanted to talk about both when a client initially contacted her, and then on the first and follow up calls.

By working on who Karen is as an individual, we’ve been able to take her further on her journey on who she is as a coach.  Although it’s early days and Karen is still refining exactly the WHO of her niche, by working through what instinctively feels right, linking it to her values, and using what she doesn’t like as a starting point to reframe to the positives of what she wants her business to be about, she’s well on the way to establishing her core messages as a coach.

This is what Karen had to say about our coaching

Having started the coaching process feeling overwhelmed & demotivated Claire has helped me to find my way out of procrastination & into action.  As a result of working with Claire I now have renewed focus and clarity of purpose.  It's really good to feel calm, back in control, and motivated.  Having a coach who also has mentoring experience has really extended my learning and accelerated my development as a coach.

Many thanks

Are you struggling with the same issues as Karen came to me to work on?

If you’d like help on taking action, clarifying your purpose as a coach, or working on resolving what you do in different situations as a coach, contact me on 01949 837247 or by email on claire@gethirednowuk.com