1) What is coaching?
Examples of when a coaching process can be helpful:
A friend has a safe and peaceful state of living, but there are just too many things to deal with at the same time, which once needs an awful amount of energy, and secondly: he would like to specialize himself in a narrower area. The question is how to get there: to deal more with the subject that he is really interested in and how to reorganize all the other things.
Another friend has just lost all her commitments, so now there is no regular job, no other binding promises, no definit country to live in, etc., but there is a recurring dream, which has kept on coming back to her for years now, and remained yet untouched. The question is how to start setting up a life, which is around the activity she always dreamt of in a way that can make her living.
A couple needs to earn a specific amount of money in a relatively short period of time, and so they are now campaigning on the matter. The suggestion is to design the process in the way that at the same time strenghten those activities, which they wanted to switch to already anyways.
There is a friend who has worked at the European Commission in Brussels for 3,5 years in a position that can be fulfilled for a maximum of 4 years. He wouldn't like to move back to his home country, but he does not yet see an alternative. He still has half a year at the Commission, so the idea is to look at what can be built during this period, which could take him to where he would like to be with activities he would fancy to be engaged in.
Most of these are of course situations and questions that may seem to be easy to solve. The huge benefit in involving a coach (when I wanted to move to Brussels for instance) for me was that it helped to keep my main targets in focus under the pressure of the thousands of other duties, which I had to concentrate on day after day, and so which - in practical terms - made it impossible to develop the issue which did not require immediate actions, but which was a most important in the long run.
2) What will you benefit from it?
You will either reach your goal by the end of the process, or you will clearly see the path and you will know what concrete steps are yet to take. 3) Methods, tools
There is an awful amount of tools and methods in coaching - here are examples of the techniques used. The process goes through these main stages anyways: - Setting up a (SMART) goal;
- Roadblocks;
- Formulation of tasks, agenda -> preparing your unique Action Plan;
- Implementation, monitoring, modifications;
- Planning of the remaining steps after the closure of the coaching process, 'retention plan';
- Closing and evaluation.
4) What would it mean in terms of time and other investments? Are there any conditions?
- There is a 20 minutes long first session, when we look at what your target would be; whether it is able to be 'coached'; what the basic conditions are and if we at all feel like working together.
- 50 minutes long sessions per week in Brussels in person or via Skype - during 8 weeks (this is a standard time, which may be shorter or longer depending on the specific topic and your needs).
- A few requiremens should be met in order to be able to be successful: e.g. you have an achievement which deeply yours and not only one of the 500 new ideas your brain came up with yesterday; or that you are able to keep yourself to the timeschedule that you will set up for yourself.
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