Coaching
Thank you for your positive comments about the new website. I asked for and got some great help from people I know professionally and personally in my community; editing and ideas from author and writer coach Julie Ferguson and corporate communications consultant Carol Oakley. Also a special “thank you” to Patricia Olgivie, Mika Lane and for the advice from Jenny Kim and Elayna Breakey with their invaluable insights into the IT world, editing and encouragement from Brigitte Winterhoff.
I also want to say “Thank you” to Cathy Schouten (www.webgarden.com) for being our website designer, stick-handling all of my various creative and sometimes off-the-wall ideas. Cathy as a website coach made my life so much easier, because she is so congenial to work with and gives great feedback. Danielle the videographer did amazing editing and helped create the various video clips, Danielle can be found at www.velvetpumpkin.com. I came to realize how important being coached was for me, to keep perspective and focus as I sometimes get lost in the drive to succeed and miss what truly matters.
Professional Coaching
Professional coaching has well defined boundaries and I believe that successful athletes, entrepreneurs and corporations all have something in common: the desire to succeed. What Olympic athletes have always known is that if you want to maximize your potential and win, hire a coach.
Coaching is to performance what leadership is to an organization.
As human beings are primarily emotional creatures, top-level coaches are experts working with EI (Emotional Intelligence), including both self-limiting and self-enhancing beliefs – helping the fires that burn within to roar. We (coaches) do not create the flame, we can help you fan your flame into a roaring success. As a coach I won’t even accept a client if I fail to find a flame inside. I know that flame is the prerequisite for greatness.
Most people only accept the amount of coaching their egos will allow. Champions are well known for being open to world class coaching, the more open-minded they are, the more successful the champion. The great ones don’t care about ego and control; it about improving their results – they’re looking for the competitive edge, no matter how slight.
Their logic is simple: when a champion competes, the advantage is the edge in thinking, strategy and technique. Champions look for that advantage that great coaching can provide.
All the best,
Geoffrey
