A coach is someone to hold you accountable, to make sure you really do live up to your potential.

Coaching

What is Arlene Quinn Coaching about?

Professional coaching supports an individual or team to develop clarity and strategies around what they really want in their personal or professional life(s). Then, together the coach and coachee(s) plan a way to achieve this clarified vision. A series of coaching sessions (usually 4-6 spread out over 6 months) supports the coachee(s) along the way, aids motivation and provides relevant resources to move more quickly on changing their mindset(s) and developing better workplace empowerment than is usually possible.

Why does coaching work?

Coaching works for several reasons:

Synergy between the coach and client creates momentum.
People are committed to improvement in their work or life.
Better goals or intentions are set. Ones that naturally pull the client toward the goal rather than goals that require the client to push themselves to the goal.
The organisation and the coach develops greater understanding of how coaching as cultural support can enhance workplace transparency and effectiveness. new skills, and these skills translate into more success.

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What does a coach do?

A personal coach does just what an athletic coach or music teacher does, only in a more complete and bigger way. A coach challenges you and takes the time to find out what winning in life means to you. A coach is your partner in living the life you know you can accomplish, personally and professionally. A coach is someone to hold you accountable for your life, to make sure you really do live up to your potential.

No matter where you are in life, there is always a desire for more. More success, more money, closer relationships, a deeper feeling of meaning in life, more balance, etc. It is the nature of people to want to attain more, become more, be more – and we all struggle with how to get what we’re looking for.

Most people believe that “hard work and doing it on your own” are the keys to finding the life, success, money or happiness that they seek. They believe that a price must be paid to attain what they want, and often that price is poor health, not having enough time to enjoy life, strained family relationships or lessened productivity. The saddest part is that, even though this effort may result in more of something, it is often not the something you had in mind, and you are back where you started, or worse, further from your real intentions.

Athletes and performers know about this trap. They know they need someone else, a trained professional to help them set goals, discover real needs, and work effectively toward ultimate goals of excellence. So they are willing to hire a coach or a teacher. No serious athlete or musician would expect to progress very far without one.

What happens when you hire a coach?

Many things, but the most important are:

You take yourself more seriously
You take more effective and focused actions immediately
You stop putting up with what is dragging you down
You create momentum so it’s easier to get results
You set better goals that you might not have without the coach

How is coaching different from therapy?

Coaching is not therapy. I don’t work on “issues”, get into the past, or deal much with understanding human behaviour. That is left up to you as a resourceful adult to know and figure out. As part of International Coach Federation ethical standards referral to professionals must occur, when required.

Can you give an example of an effective coaching tool?

The Leadership Circle Profile™ is the only 360-degree assessment that measures leadership competencies while at the same time revealing the underlying assumptions that are causing a leader’s pattern of strengths and limitations. It helps leaders to discover what they are doing, why they are doing it, and their key opportunities for development. This assessment cultivates awareness and insights that enhance effectiveness in leadership and impacts performance. Arlene Quinn is accredited to administer the Leadership Circle Profile.

PRINT®
PRINT is a research driven, statistically validated, proprietary method for uncovering people’s core, hidden motivations, explaining the essential WHY behind behaviour, not just what. PRINT delineates with great accuracy, why people sometimes act in Best Self, making positive and productive choices and decisions while other times they may be less effective and make less constructive choices, allowing their Shadow side to break through. Showing up in Best Self or Shadow has a lot to do with how well a person’s core motivations are being satisfied by the world around them. Following a PRINT survey, each person is accountable for managing their own behaviour while also responsible for how their behaviour impacts others. Coaching supports these changes.