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Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose. Bill Gates |
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LifeStar Coaching specialises in working with business owners, entrepreneurs, managers and executives at all levels, from corporate, private and non-profit sectors, helping clients focus on achievement and effectiveness, accomplishing significant business goals while safeguarding personal well-being, values and fulfilment.
In the profoundly supportive and confidential environment which professional coaching creates, we help our clients develop their own compelling solutions to issues, create functional strategies and reach their own key decisions so they move forward strengthened and enriched by the process, with a renewed passion for what they do.
Unlike many traditional advisors, our function is not to give advice. Rather it is to substantially develop client self-reliance with an evolving, coherent sense of power over one's own life. Improvement and learning are inspired, never coerced, in an exciting yet calm atmosphere.
The unique, professional partnership between business coach and client is based upon trust, openness, support, impartiality and clear perceptions. Not the imposed perceptions of an 'expert', but the deeper awareness, wisdom, insights and intuitions of the client, combining with astute observations, questions, feedback and reflections from the coach. |
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Business coaching focuses precisely where you want and need it to. It can help define personal or business goals, vision, strategies and mission; move you beyond self-limiting thought patterns and behaviours into new areas of learning and initiative, or help transition into new roles and manage change. Organisational goals can be made personally meaningful. It deals equally well with day-to-day specifics or wide-ranging issues.
Business clients commonly use coaching over a period of several months. However, it can also work effectively with a limited brief for precisely defined, topic-specific objectives. You may wish to assess your business and your place in it.
LifeStar's business coaching programmes are individually tailored to client needs. There are no pre-packaged improvement techniques; no off-the-shelf motivation, assessment or optimization products. The style is warm and intimate, flexible and refreshing. |
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Business coaching takes stock of the whole person and typically reviews most facets of a client's life, not just isolated components. This approach gives a much greater chance for change and improvement to be effective and lasting, since many aspects of life are deeply, sometimes unexpectedly, inter-related.
We know that progress, success and innovation involve probing the issues and asking all sorts of questions. Coaching specialises in formulating and asking questions - not ones that assume you or we have 'right' answers, but ones that can challenge the status quo and open up new creative ideas and possibilities. Coaching is thought provoking, introspective and satisfying, increasing access to innate potential.
Coaching establishes where clients are today and where they want to be tomorrow, then helps to identify and unpack whatever is needed to move forward. It takes careful account both of what a client needs to do as well as who they want to be, to get what they want from the future. |
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We support genuine, meaningful change by integrating the skilful use of dialogue, reflection, intention and focused action, providing the tools, support and structure to help clients transform their vision and goals into reality, achieving personal and organizational objectives.
We do not attempt to teach you about your business sector. Our area of expertise is coaching. Drawing on richly varied skills and experience in training, mentoring, strategic planning, stress management, change and project management, communication and interpersonal effectiveness, we stimulate conversations and explorations that clarify issues and promote solutions.
Our coaching expertise is backed by extensive international management and HR experience, primarily in non-profit and charitable sectors, with over ten years working in the USA and ten years in India. |
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In 2003, 95% of UK businesses reported using coaching or mentoring services in their organisation. World-class corporations now routinely include individual coaching in compensation packages for their executives. Coaching is seen as an effective and confidential investment, with many professionals using it repeatedly to build, sustain and enjoy their positions as high performers.
Research by the International Coach Federation, sampling over 4,000 companies, shows that the primary benefits of coaching which businesses consistently report are (in order): |
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improved individual performance |
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bottom-line results, including profit, client service and
competitiveness |
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development of people to the next level |
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confidence raising, skills-enhancement and self-empowerment |
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goal achievement |
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relationship improvements |
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retention |
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Business and executive coaching rapidly gets to the heart of issues, generating viable client-based solutions accompanied by the clarity and planning needed to advance into effective action. The coaching interaction accelerates progress by offering new perspectives and greater awareness of choice. |
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In a supportive, motivating and optimistic way, a coach acts as a catalyst to help cultivate the passion and impetus needed to explore new ideas, develop plans and expand overall contribution. Professional coaching provides you with a skilled business ally who is neither subservient nor in competition with you; someone who can help you be accountable for your own success.
The performance results and individual impact of coaching extend well beyond the coaching sessions. An important element of our role is to make sure clients recognise opportunities to practice newly found skills, attitudes or awareness, committing to making changes on a planned and permanent basis. |
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Business clients also benefit from: |
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improved work-life balance |
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personal fulfilment |
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increased sense of purpose and job satisfaction |
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stress reduction |
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Many executives and organisations clearly recognise the vital necessity to evolve, not only strategically but also emotionally, both to retain valuable staff and ultimately, to avoid losing market share. If they do not invest appropriately in their greatest assets, themselves and their people, businesses die from the bottom-line on up. There may be early warning signs: |
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what is the quality of your working relationships? |
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how long do you delay before implementing decisions? |
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who do you share your concerns and emotions with? |
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how long do you look at a problem before you come up with an answer? |
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who do you brainstorm and develop new ideas with? |
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who do you turn to, to get honest feedback? |
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when you make a promise to yourself or others, do you keep your word? |
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Business can certainly be challenging. We can be called upon to be strong managers and inspirational leaders, strategic thinkers, reflective philosophers and financial wizards, successful fundraisers and public speakers. Though our responsibilities vary, we face common personal issues: |
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Fear
We would not have electricity, computers or men on the moon without people who dreamed and asked "what if?" They were not diverted by doubts, yet many people experience insidious, even paralysing forms of anxiety and fear. Business results get so much focus but they seldom change the way we feel if we are insecure, overworked, frustrated and stressed. Trying to cover feelings of inadequacy, we fear being exposed. Whatever we do to change the outer situation, it's never enough. Our inner state somehow remains the same. |
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Attitude
Business people today can be surprisingly modest about their own success yet need to build on it for the future; sometimes wanting to develop themselves in new areas but held back by the company they run; needing to take the next step yet unsure exactly what it is, or wondering where it leads them. Often performance doesn't change until attitude changes. This is why many trainings and seminars ultimately fail. The candidate does not include (or see) themselves as part of the issue, the source of the problem. People do not easily recognise the need for change within themselves. |
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Providing opportunities for self-discovery is a fundamental part of coaching which can have a major impact on personal self-confidence. Coaching can help identify where a change in attitude is needed as well as help you develop and sustain helpful attitudes. Concerns or fears can be addressed safely and confidentially.
To explore your organizations needs or find out how LifeStar Coaching can help you bring out the best in yourself, your business and your people, contact us for a free, confidential consultation. |
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