Coaching to help you identify opportunities and achieve goals.

The benefits of coaching     What is coaching?     Who is coaching for?     Who is your coach?

 

Coaching is a real-time intervention to address current issues that helps you clarify the best way forward and achieve your goals.

"Be the best you can be and achieve the results you want" Dr Sue Mitchell

 

We help people get to where they want to be, stretch their horizons and stay on top of their game, more effectively and faster than they might on their own. We support individuals and teams to raise their self-awareness and encourage them to take responsibility for their own professional and private lives.

We coach:

• individuals at all levels and from all walks of life to build confidence, develop self awareness, plan their career, change direction, develop leadership and teamwork skills, improve personal effectiveness, change behaviours and maximise performance.
• directors, senior managers and teams to clarify the organisation's strategic direction and goals; to plan for succession and continuity; to define and link the vision, values, behaviours and culture of the organisation; to manage change; and to embrace organisational challenges both individually and as a team.
• business owners on issues such as starting up or growing the business, expanding into new markets, and dealing with staff or team issues.
• We act as a sounding board for senior directors and business owners to clarify and focus their planning in order to make clearer decisions and develop strategy.

We offer professional coaching, either meeting in person or by telephone, and tailor the programme to your personal requirements. A confidential consultation is the start of your journey to maximise your potential, revitalise your confidence and ambitions, and achieve your goals.

Contact Sue now on info@aeona.co.uk or 07738 290384

 

"The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live." Elbert Hubbard

 

 

The Benefits of Coaching

Benefits of Coaching:

Through coaching, people are able to:

Increase confidence Increase self-awareness and awareness of others Improve focus Make better choices Have a clearer decision making process Learn more from experiences Implement more effective decisions or actions Expand your horizons Reduce stress Build a fulfilling life/work balance Improve ability to relate to others Improve self discipline Improve motivation Improve health and well-being routines eg diet, exercise Change life for the better

Find their own solutions Develop their skills Change their attitudes Change their behaviours Achieve an appropriate Work/Life Balance

"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them."
Albert Einstein

 

See the Personal Coaching page for more information and the Business Coaching and Executive Coaching pages for benefits specific to a work context.

Meetings are arranged either at your premises or an agreed location. Sue combines the coaching process with a wide range of coaching and NLP tools to help you realise your full potential and implement effective and sustainable long-term change. As your coach, Sue will motivate, inspire and support you to more clearly understand what you want and achieve results faster, more efficiently and more effectively than you might on your own.

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What is Coaching?

Coaching is a process to help you make the changes you want in the way that you want, so you can realise your full potential and move from where you are now to where you want to be, whether in work or in your personal life. One-to one coaching enables you to find and act on those solutions which are most congruent and appropriate for you personally. Dialogue with your coach assists you to see new perspectives and gain greater clarity about your thoughts, emotions and actions, and about the people and situations around you. Coaching differs from other listening/helping professions, primarily in that it is goal or solution oriented and client led, as described on the Definitions page.

The CIPD (Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development) defines coaching at work as 'developing a person’s skills and knowledge so that their job performance improves, hopefully leading to the achievement of organisational objectives. It targets high performance and improvement at work, although it may also have an impact on an individual’s private life. It usually lasts for a short period and focuses on specific skills and goals.'

Core principles underlying coaching include:

Awareness - everything the coach does is focused on raising the client's own awareness and self-knowledge, resulting in many additional benefits.

Responsibility - clients are encouraged to develop their self-responsibility and take ownership of their decisions. Coaches are responsible for maintaining an open attitude, to allow the client to take charge of the content while the coach is in charge of the process.

Self-Belief - coaching gives clients (sometimes called coachees) the space to develop self-belief, through learning for themselves with positive and constructive feedback. This helps to develop confidence that they can do something, which is a key factor in achieving it.

Blame-free - mistakes are viewed as a learning experience and opportunity.

Solution focus - When we dwell on a problem, it gets bigger. When we focus on the solution, the problem becomes manageable and we have more energy to deal with it.

Challenge - Coaching challenges and stretches clients in a supportive environment and helps them step back and see new perspectives. Coaches reflect back to clients, helping them see their situation or life in proportion.

Action - Clients gain new insights through uncovering new perspectives and awareness, leading to more options and a desire to take action and change.

Coaching works because you are accountable to someone else, someone who is unbiased, and who can give you objective feedback. Coaching also works because you are much more effective, productive and successful when you enjoy what you do and are not stressed. Working together with your coach enables you to become more aware of your own values and goals, challenge your limiting beliefs, identify what you really want and develop an action plan or programme of how to focus and achieve this. Your coach won't tell you what to do or do it for you and instead facilitates your development, learning and performance. For coaching to succeed you need to commit to working through the programme, both during and between coaching sessions. See the section on what's involved for an overview of what you could expect of a personal coaching programme.

There are several areas of coaching typically encountered these days. It started with sports coaching and the tools and techniques that help to improve performance in sport are now applied and extended in other fields. These include personal coaching (also called life coaching) and business coaching, which includes career coaching, and corporate or executive coaching. Aeona works primarily in Business Coaching, Executive Coaching and Personal Coaching.

 

Who is Coaching for?

Coaching is for anyone who wants, and is ready to invest time and effort, to make changes in their life or their organisation in order to achieve their full potential, improve their performance at work or in some other part of their life, identify their aspirations and achieve the results they truly deserve. See the sections on Business Coaching and Personal Coaching for a few examples of situations where coaching makes a difference.

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Who is your Coach?

A coach provides a collaborative support with the focus very much on you, what you want and how you can achieve it. Aeona's coach, Dr Sue Mitchell, will:

• motivate, inspire and support you to understand and achieve what you want
• give you the luxury of having someone listen and focus 100% on you
• be non-judgemental
• be non-critical
• be fully confidential
• be independent of your organisation and life, so you can be confident to discuss whatever you like
• be a sounding board, with whom you can develop ideas, plans or difficult decisions before implementing them
• give you support, feedback and guidance
• help you identify your ambitions, goals and dreams
• help you identify what is holding you back
• help you move from where you are now to where you want to be
• encourage you to rise to challenges, overcome obstacles and move into action.

Sue will help you to find the right way forward for you and develop your own action plan to achieve long-lasting results. Sue will support and encourage you and help you focus to discover solutions for yourself. By encouraging you to take responsibility, your coaching outcomes (as improved performance or success in achieving your personal goals) are more sustainable, more motivating and more "right for you".

Sue is an Associate Member of the Association for Coaching and coaches in accordance with their code of ethics and good practice.

 

Contact Aeona today to see how coaching will benefit you.

Tel: 07738 290384     or     email:   info@aeona.co.uk

 

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"Be who you are in every situation." Michael Johnson