Here's what I'll do as your coach
Coaching works because it brings out your best. A coach believes you have the answers and is trained to bring them out. Specifically, this is what I do during our coaching sessions:
Listen
I listen fully. You are the focus. I listen to what you say, what you are trying to say, and what you are not saying — what you intended to say, plus how you say or don't say all this.
Share
After you have communicated, I work with you, your thoughts and feelings about all this, and may also share with you my thoughts, ideas, comments and views on your situation, dilemma or opportunity, based on my own experience and my intuition.
Co-create
Important parts of our work will be in the realm of co-creation. It's what happens naturally with people in this very unique partnership. We will lay the groundwork for trust, and what evolves will allow you to take new and extraordinary risks.
Endorse
Validation, holding the light on your gifts, and endorsement of who you are and what you are up to is so important. It's a gift to have a regular source of this. An outside voice full of endorsement, compassion and acknowledgment is very different from a yes-type agreement. It puts people in touch with themselves at deeper and sometimes brand-new levels.
Suggest
I want a lot for you. I want you to be healthy, happy and successful, to be on a strong financial track and to enjoy family and friends. I want you to have a life that inspires others — and yourself! I want your standards high enough so even you are impressed to be a part of your life. Part of my job is to be at least three steps ahead of you, yet be with you. As such, I make requests and suggestions, and you, as the expert on you, decide whether these will forward you and how (or if) they are a good investment. If so, I support you in carrying them out.
Follow up / follow through
Coaching provides a great venue for you to complete and follow through with your dreams and goals. While the coach is not ever the taskmaster (especially this coach), just having the regularly appointed time to check in, recharge, and refurbish or redesign by its very nature fosters follow-through.