Benefits of coaching
Coaching can help you as an intelligent, busy woman to stay on track. It gives you time out to focus totally on you and what you want.

Coaching can help you to clarify your goals and support you to achieve them faster than you might on your own. It can raise your awareness of the possibilities around you and help you to leverage off those possibilities to make things happen. It can give you the courage to actively pursue your goals, instead of just talking about how you’d like life to be if only things were different.

Coaching can provide a fresh perspective and the opportunity to try out new ways of thinking and behaving in a supportive environment. Coaching can also enhance you’re effectiveness, your confidence and your mindset as you focus on achieving goals meaningful to you.

A typical session
Throughout the coaching relationship, your coach will act as a facilitator of change, while encouraging you to take responsibility for enacting change.

Each session your coach will ask you what you would like to get out of that session and you will choose the focus of the conversation. You’ll explore what you’d like to have happening in your life and what’s happening now. The coach won’t, however, deconstruct your problems in an endeavour to figure out why things are the way they are so that you can fix them. Instead, your coach will focus on painting a picture of what could be and on drawing on your existing strengths and resources to identify strategies for moving forward. In each session, you will generate an action plan, which your coach will expect you to complete between sessions.

Your coach won’t typically provide you with answers or tell you what you should do. Rather, she will encourage you to come up with your own answers to move you closer to your goal. She will do this by asking relevant questions, listening, and contributing observations, concepts and principles. She may also encourage you to consider new ways of thinking or behaving. Although resulting conversations may be quite challenging, you aren’t expected to have all the answers. It’s much more important to come to coaching with a willingness to work at creating change and to be open and honest in coaching conversations.

Session structure and fees
Coaching sessions are offered nationally by phone and in person in the Sydney central business district and on Sydney’s lower north shore. The initial session is 90 minutes and each follow up session is 60 minutes.

The fee for each phone session is $100, payable in advance by cheque or direct bank deposit.  Alternatively, phone sessions can be purchased in advance in a block of 4 x 1 hour-long sessions at a fee of $320.

The fee for each face-to-face session is $120, payable by cash or cheque at the time of the session. Alternatively, face-to-face sessions can be purchased in advance in a block of 4 x 1 hour-long sessions at a fee of $380.

Face-to-face sessions are generally held at your office in a private meeting space. This ensures that you don’t have to travel and that you can conduct your coaching sessions in a familiar environment. If this is not practical, a private meeting room can be organised offsite or the session can even be held in a local café. As long as you and your coach feel comfortable, the location is your choice.