It’s often interchanged with the term Life Coaching. But let’s first establish what growth coaching is NOT, and hopefully that will help. Growth coaching is not consulting, mentoring, teaching, or counselling. It is not being told a bunch of motivational quotes in order to make you feel great. It is not a coach telling you how to live your life.

So… what IS growth coaching?

A Growth Coach is someone who acts as a guide to facilitate a practical and well-researched process of personal and/or professional improvement. Growth coaching is a process whereby the coach will guide you to be the expert in your own situation, to streamline your thoughts, ideas, knowledge, and goals into the most effective practical system to improve your situation and reach your goals. The coach’s job is to prompt and challenge you to make the tough decisions and find what works for YOU, not to simply push you into a one size fits all process that would more than likely fail.

That’s fine. That’s a big part of the coach’s job. If you have a goal, it’s the coach’s job to help you define it specifically, and if you don’t have a goal it’s the coach’s job to tease out what your aim is, where you are trying to get to, what your desires truly are. A lot of people just know that they need or want a change, but either don’t know consciously what that change is, or don’t know quite how to articulate what that change might look like. It’s all about you, and a growth coach is an expert at getting to the bottom of YOU!

Changes and goals can be large or small. Some people want to change their entire careers and lives, while others are happy where they are but want to achieve more within their current situation. This is the reason I have different packages available starting at a single session. Some people have a minor goal and just need a little help to get going on their own, while others have major ambitions that may take months or years to achieve and need a considerable amount of thought and guidance throughout the process. It’s your life, you decide the size of your goals, but no goal is too big or too small for a growth coach.

It is… kind of. We all know that without a personal coach, our Olympians wouldn’t do as well as they do. They wouldn’t know what areas to improve on and which specific skills to work on. Growth coaching is basically the same. The growth coach might implement such strategies and techniques as colleague observations, questioning, thought prompting, and setting appropriate challenges to encourage an individual or team to develop and grow. Growth coaches are experts at bringing people to challenge themselves, to ask themselves the difficult questions, and to reflect on their own thoughts and actions. Ultimately it is honest reflection that has the greatest impact on how and if people change and achieve their goals.

Basically, you get out what you put in. It depends on what your specific goals are. During each session the growth coach will attempt to draw clarity and specifics from you. This will enable you to pinpoint exactly what it is you are articulating and the path that best suits you to achieve your goals. The growth coach will help you to outline a plan of action and develop habits and tactics that stick with you for life, and streamline and ensure success for your current goals and future ones too.

No. Growth coaching can take place in-person or remotely. So you don’t even need to be in the same town or even the same country as me. It’s your choice where and how you feel comfortable meeting and what best suits you. We can do my office, your office, cafe, local park, Zoom, Skype, FaceTime, phone call… It’s totally up to you.