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LIFE COACHING AND CAREER MENTORING
Life Coaching
Using a life-skills coaching approach, Linda teaches powerful
and effective self-help techniques for reaching your full potential. She
has considerable experience in helping people to: gain clarity about career
direction; achieve career goals; build confidence, creativity and better
business relationships; and banish anxiety, conflict, indecision and feelings
of inadequacy. Her mentoring approach is also the basis of her emotional
intelligence training.
What is Life Coaching?
Life coaching is sometimes called personal coaching, business
coaching, corporate coaching or executive coaching. It is a new professional
service that has been available in Australia for over five years and in
the United States for more than ten. This kind of mentoring has probably
existed in one form or another for hundreds if not thousands of years.
However, in its current relatively structured form, it is proving to be
a fast growing and popular part of the $100 billion per year global personal
development and training industry and is attracting considerable media
attention.
The bottom line is that great results are being achieved
and it actually works!
It is a mentoring process in which a person who has achieved
their own life goals and believes in you:
- helps you to gain the clarity you need to discover
what is rewarding, fulfilling and satisfying so you can set goals that
reflect your interests, skills, strengths, personal values and temperament
(rather than whims, instant gratification or social/marketing pressures)
and thereby joyfully commit to doing things you care passionately about
- gives you 100% support and guidance in the use
of empowering tools which enable you to take steps (such as gaining
confidence and insight, finding direction, developing action plans,
making significant changes and improving relationships) which unleash
your unrealised potential so you can move forward to live the life you
really want to live.
- Assists you to reach your chosen goals more quickly
and with less stress by reducing learning curves, creating better solutions
and avoiding expensive mistakes.
Benefits
Coaching can be applied to every area of your life - personal
and professional. Linda has worked with hundreds of clients over the last
five years. The following is a list of the kinds of benefits she has seen
people receive as a result of the coaching process.
- enhanced career performance
- more free time, more fun and more money
- more effective communication
- personal empowerment
- increased emotional intelligence and self-awareness
- increased calmness, peace, happiness, creativity,
energy, health, fitness, and vitality
- better concentration and mental function
- enhanced ability to identify stress factors and
eliminate the stress they cause
- clarity about what one is passionate about
- identification of opportunities for success which
are aligned with one's true nature
- successful career transition
- love of one's life as it is
- decision-making in alignment with one's skills,
strengths and personal values
- increased ability to build productive relationships
(both personal and professional)
- mproved self-confidence, clarity, focus and balance
- more effective implementation of change in one's
business or personal life
- improved ability to organize, set boundaries and
eliminate clutter
Why Life Coaching Works
Coaching motivates you to spend time focused on and working
toward your goals so you actually achieve them. It does this by making
sure you've chosen the most rewarding goals for you. It also makes you
accountable to someone else. This accountability dramatically increases
your perseverance and perseverance usually pays off.
Through wise guidance from someone who has undergone thousands
of hours of personal development work and succeeded in achieving their
own goals, coaching can save you much time, money and frustration. It
is easy to waste a lot of energy going off on a tangent, taking on too
much too soon or criticizing ourselves. Honest and open feedback can help
us to see blind-spots that it might take weeks, months or years to discover
on our own. Encouragement, support, validation, inspiration and practical
action-oriented guidance can stretch us to see beyond our limited view
of ourselves to what is possible so that we not only achieve our goals
more quickly but also reap benefits well beyond our expectations.
Would You Benefit From Life Coaching?
If there is any area of your personal or professional life
in which you have been unable to achieve a high degree of satisfaction
AND
You are ready to make changes
AND
You are willing to step beyond your comfort zone
THEN
It is highly likely that you can benefit from life coaching.
Do I Need a Life Coach or a Counsellor?
It is often said that life coaching is for people who are
basically satisfied with their lives and that others should seek counselling.
However everyone benefits more from focusing on enhancing skills and strengths
and achieving goals than from focusing on problems. Thus, regardless of
whether you feel that your life is together or falling apart, life coaching
works better than counselling which seeks to explore and understand the
roots of problems.
Some people also believe that if they are bothered by strong
emotions, they should seek counselling or therapy rather than coaching.
They may believe that a life coach would not have the emotional depth
and experience to handle their issues. While this may sometimes be true,
Dr. Linda Edwards is not only a life coach but also a registered psychologist
with counselling experience dating back to 1976. Her accelerated emotional
intelligence training techniques can be very effective in dealing with
troublesome feelings and you can learn to use these techniques yourself
so you don't have to keep going to a coach or a therapist. These techniques
form the basis of her accelerated life coaching approach.
What Can I Expect From Accelerated Life Coaching?
Accelerated Life Coaching begins with establishing some
inspiring goals. From then on, the focus is on achieving them. While coaching
is a catalyst for amazing change, it is not magic. It does require hard
work and commitment.
Ideally you have a session one hour per week in person or
over the telephone for an agreed period, often three months. During each
session, you agree to take actions for the following week at which time
you discuss obstacles faced, insights gained, and with the help of constructive
feedback which broadens your perspective, set new actions for tackling
things in a different way.
Some of these new actions may require you to develop new
habits. To accomplish this, you will need to be willing to step beyond
your comfort zone as you are guided in the use of a wide range of empowering
techniques intended to rapidly raise your emotional intelligence. It is
these techniques which can rapidly speed up the usual coaching process.
Do I Need to Commit to a Three Month Program?
Not necessarily. That depends on you.
Some of Linda's clients have experienced profound changes
in two to four sessions. In fact, her emotional intelligence training
techniques can, in many cases, facilitate very significant changes in
much less than three months. It is quite common for people to want a lot
of benefit from a small investment. If you are ready to step well beyond
your comfort zone, you may be one of the people who can actually do that.
However many people are quite resistant to putting themselves
in uncomfortable situations. If this is true for you, it may well be realistic
to plan for weekly sessions over three months in order to see the results
you are looking for.
If you would like to clarify what you want to achieve and
how fast you are comfortable to work toward your goals, call 9836 8629
and book an initial session. It is not uncommon for individuals to achieve
one or two small goals as a consequence of this first session. But most
importantly, you will be able to make a more informed decision about the
optimal length of time for which you should engage in Accelerated Life
Coaching to get the benefits you are looking for.
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Career Mentoring
Do you want to:
- Develop the attitudes that make executives &
professionals effective
- Feel at ease working with difficult clients and
colleagues
- Eliminate most of your stress and prevent burnout
- Discover how to meet the people who are exceptionally
helpful to you
- Overcome significant professional challenges
- Gain clarity about your goals and achieve them
- Receive safe, supportive encouraging guidance tailored
to your unique needs
- Discover how to access the knowledge and passion
you need from within yourself
Career Mentoring is for anyone who is not entirely
satisfied with their work and would like to do something about it now.
It uses a life coaching approach including emotional intelligence training
techniques and is similar to what is described above in the section on
Life Coaching except that it focuses on career issues.
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Emotional Intelligence Training
Importance of Emotional Intelligence
Empowering emotional intelligence training techniques are
the basis of Linda's life coaching, career mentoring and stress management
programs because emotional intelligence is highly correlated with success
in both the business and professional world and family and personal relationships.
For more information on the nature and importance of emotional intelligence,
go to our emotional intelligence page.
Credentials of Trainer
Dr Linda Edwards has a doctorate from Monash University
in psychology and has mentored numerous senior executives and coached
professionals who are leading in their field internationally. She has
thousands of hours experience using her emotional intelligence training
techniques and is convinced that her methods are at the forefront of rapid
development of emotional intelligence. She is also an honorary
research associate in psychology at Monash University with
publications in professional journals and popular magazines.
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Copyright Dr Linda Edwards 2002-2006,
Art of Living Psychology, Camberwell, Victoria 3124, Australia. (Consulting
Rooms are in Melbourne in the Camberwell, Surrey Hills, Burwood and Canterbury
region, also serving Ashburton, Balwyn, Box Hill, Glen Iris, Hawthorn,
Kew and Malvern).
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