FAQ
What is Coaching?
Coaching is a process where you have a mentor, manager, trainer and friend all rolled into one person to help you identify goals, break them down into achievable chunks, and to keep you moving along the path to achieving them.
How long does it take?
The Executive Coaching relationship lasts as until the Executive has reached his/her clearly expressed goals. These will have been agreed at the initial coaching meeting.
In most instances the Designer Life coaching program runs for 4 months. The Personal Power program usually lasts just 6 weeks.
Formal Career Transition Coaching usually continues for 6 months after the Staff member has left the organisation.
During this time your coach helps you to identify and set goals, adapts your personal beliefs to meet your goals, clears potential blocks and ensures that your values are aligned with your short and long term outcomes.
We find that our clients keep in touch to share their growth and successes, after the formal coaching period has finished.
Is Coaching the same as Counselling?
Counseling is often an exhaustive process designed to assist recovery from traumatic events or undesirable behaviors.
Third Sigma International Coaching may on occasions assist you to clear blocks, and self limiting belief patterns, but the similarity ends there.
What Training has my Coach had?
All Third Sigma International Executive and Performance Coaches either have certification in Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) to Master Practitioner level, or a Graduate Diploma in Ontological coaching.
Additionally each has undertaken 'advanced personal change training'. This technology assists in the development of conscious goals that are actively supported by your unconscious mind.
How does coaching work?
Initially your Third Sigma International Coach will meet you for an obligation free assessment. This time will be used to identify your needs and desired outcomes and to determine your receptivity to being coached.
This consultation will also offer the opportunity to become familiar with your coach and learn how the process works.
Depending upon which program best suits your needs, you will then set a timetable for face to face meetings with your coach. This time will be used to work through your outcomes but remains flexible and receptive to your changing needs and self perception.
As each session builds you commit to taking bolder actions. In this way your coach works in partnership with you to create your future.
What is the difference between Designer Life© and Personal Power©?
The Third Sigma International Designer Life program is an in-depth structured program that assists you to set clear goals in each of the identifiable areas of your life. eg. Finances, Career, Family, Relationships, Health & Fitness and Emotional.
In each area you will have outcomes, beliefs, values and a perception of who you are. The Designer Life program assists in bringing all of these into alignment to help you easily create your outcomes.
Along the way, and most importantly, we teach you how to continue to achieve your outcomes after the program has finished.
The Personal Power program has a slightly different focus in that it helps where you may be feeling stuck in a limiting or unuseful behaviour, habit or situation.
Often our clients begin with the Personal Power program and as their sense of empowerment returns, they transfer into the Designer Life program.
How do I choose a Coach?
The relationship between you and your coach is unique.
When choosing a coach look for one that you trust, respect and feel confident you can build a relationship with.
Honesty is a vital part of your process together. For this reason; choose someone that you feel you are able to be completely open with in good faith.
Third Sigma International Coaches are trained to be non-critical and non-judgmental. We feel confident you will find them to be exactly the type of person you can work with to get lasting results.
Why does Coaching Work?
Coaching is a natural part of our development, from the time our parents coached us to walk, talk, sing, read and write.
Success in any venture is achieved more easily when you have someone working along side you assisting, pointing the way, giving honest and encouraging feedback and cheering you along the way.
Whilst we have all had coaches as part of our development, we do not often have the experience of having another human being completely focussed upon our development in our adult life.
This is an energising and truly liberating experience.