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How can coaching help me?

There are different kinds of personal coaching.

Each coaching concentration focuses on one of your particular needs. Here are some areas that ProActivation® Coaching focuses on:

  • Entrepreneurial Coaching: helping entrepreneurs (and professionals) to manage the demands of their overly-busy lives
  • Leadership Coaching: helping new and experienced executives and managers to adapt more readily to the ever-more-challenging demands of their careers
  • Coaching for Balance: helping people to achieve their goals without losing their minds
  • Coaching for Emotional Intelligence: assisting people to grow using emotional intelligence (EQ) in their interpersonal relationships
  • Coaching for Spiritual Intelligence: helping individuals to discern the direction that their lives will take, in creating a life vision, and in discerning and aligning with their values

These areas or 'concentrations' are only some of the directions that coaching can take you. Remember: you are in control of the direction your coaching will take. It all depends on where you are and where you want to go in the ever-shifting context of your personal and social life.

What is ProActivation® Coaching like?

Even the logistics of the coaching relationship depends on your needs. Most people find that one hour sessions once a week seems to provide the best results. Again, other people start out with these weekly sessions and, after a while, find that they may need more or less time or need to meet more or less frequently. The timing of the coaching sessions can be worked out between the your needs and our schedules.

Most personal coaching is done one-on-one by telephone. This provides maximum flexibility and personal service. Some clients may prefer face-to-face meetings; we can accommodate this if you live near or regularly visit Rehoboth Beach, DE. Other people may find that using online video is the best way for them to communicate. Your coach will do his or her best to work with you.

ProActivation® Coaching offers its coaching program in 13-week 'blocks'. You and your coach both commit to working through one 13-week block of sessions (90 days or 3 months). After that, you get the chance to review your work with your coach and decide whether or not to continue. We will ask you to end each coaching block with an evaluation of your coaching experience. We appreciate both testimonials and suggestions for improvement.

In the ProActivation® Coaching model, your first 13-week 'block' of coaching is dedicated to helping both you and your coach get to know you better. S/he will offer you three assessments that will assist you in pinpointing your best qualities:

  • The Strengthsfinder assessment will help you discover the five areas that you are 'hardwired' to succeed in. Leveraging your strengths gives you much more 'bang for your buck' than focusing on overcoming your weaknesses.
  • The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI) is a tried and true approach to helping you to understand and appreciate your personality 'style'.
     
  • The Index for Emotional Intelligence (IEI) provides you with a unique opportunity to appreciate how you function emotionally in relationship to others. It not only measures your own self-image, but it gives you a chance to see how closely it correlates with how others see you.

In addition, your coach will be suggesting a number of small exercises to you that will help both of you to understand better where you're coming from, where you are, and where you want to go. The number and type of exercises are completely dependent on your needs and the kind of coaching that you want to pursue. Here are some of the exercises that we provide:

  • Core Values Inventory
  • Personal Destiny Discovery
  • Needs Assessment
  • Wants Inventory
  • Resources Budget
  • Intuition Board
  • Intention Board & Statement
  • Finding Your Hedgehog
  • My Ideal Schedule
  • Finding Your Focus

In your coaching, you may be using some, all, or none of these exercises, depending on your personal needs and coaching goals. This is not a one-size-fits-all program!

Testimonials

  • Ric Kirby, Shocking Orange Productions

    I should preface this by saying that I was a skeptic as to the value of or even the profession of “life coaching”. Having said that, a little over two years ago I found myself at a personal and professional point of stagnation that had crippled my productivity. Coinciding with my befuddlement was an introduction to you and ProActivation.

    I engaged your services in a hope to rekindle a little spark in my professional life. What I got instead was an explosion - an entire new vision of my skills and talents, a paradigm shift which led me to reach far beyond any previous stale expectations of “what might have been” to a reality filled with exciting opportunity and a rewarding sense of personal potential. In working with you, I identified, qualified and became an articulate spokesperson for my personal and professional strengths and goals. With this newfound skill, I was able to leap ahead professionally and challenge myself successfully with a series of accomplishments that had eluded me for decades.

    In the past year, I have won work and excelled at opportunities that have identified me as a leader in my field and in turn opened doors in other arenas that might never have occurred to me. Suffice to say, I am now a believer in the power and importance of personal life coaching. I believe the hardest challenge for a skeptic or non-believer like myself is the decision to invest in oneself. Gaining a stronger sense of self worth is another aspect of growth that flourished under your guidance. Suffice to say, I strongly endorse investing and committing to a program with ProActivation. As your tagline suggests—thanks to you, I have definitely unleashed the power within!

  • Mary Davis, (Retired)

    When we entered into our coaching relationship, I came seeking direction. I had a goal sense, but doubted its validity. Although self-examination is uncomfortable, with the strength-finders, life- motivating ideals exercise and Meyers-Briggs, we were able to get me out in the open. The result is a black and white picture of who I am and what matters to me.

    Your expertise, encouragement, sense of humor and enthusiasm for my success challenged me to take responsibility for my future--to honor my passion. I believe that sooner or later I may have reached this point on my own, but your coaching got me here faster and with an assurance I would not have had without you. You made my path clear. Soooo, Friday I go to Jersey to order my Airstream!

    It's no coincidence that things happened the way they did. I'm grateful for that, for the experience of working together and the opportunity to get to know you. Thank you.

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