How Do I Work With You? What Is Coaching?
Posted on May 16, 2014 by Alicia Johnson, One of Thousands of Retirement Coaches on Noomii.
Read through the differentiation between Coach, Consultant, Therapist and Best Friend. Find out a little about my career roles, ethics and standards.
How I work with you
I provide assessment and planning services to pre-retirees and newly retired persons utilizing a Certified Coaching model, thereby assisting you to create the life you truly want! In a discovery process utilizing assessment and appreciative inquiry, powerful questions and insight exercises, I assist you to identify your present goals and future life course, thereby realigning you with your current life purpose and passion. In so doing, your fears about the future are decreased, anxieties turn into purposeful actions, and focus is targeted to increase performance in specific life arenas. There is a focus on the psychological, social, and emotional transitions that occur in this life stage, which ground you, empower you with information and increase your health and well-being.
The difference between Coaches, Consultants, Therapists and Good Friends
Coaches assist their clients to find their own solutions. They are future focused and work with healthy, proactive people who want to increase individual performance and make changes in their life. Coaches are professional, confidential, and work within a set of ethics and standards. Coaches are client centred, focused on enhancing accountability and evolution or transformation for their clients while being supportive but professionally objective.
Consultants are professionals with expertise in a specific area that come in to help you solve problems. Consultants are directive and results oriented, measuring for goal achievement, providing new or updated equipment, processes or systems.
Therapists are Health Professionals trained in medical or psychological processes to assist clients to resolve past personal issues, heal and recover from diagnosable conditions. Therapists have different boundaries than Coaches, staying detached and keeping their thoughts and feelings out of the picture, whereas Coaches can offer personal disclosures as a way to support and challenge their clients when appropriate.
What is Better than a Good Friend
Absolutely nothing! We all have them and need them in our lives. Friends offer support, encouragement and often offer advice. Coaches are there to support, encourage, but also hold their clients accountable without the advice component. You know what I am talking about, if you have ever uttered this phrase; “so who asked you?” Friends often commiserate and try to fix. Coaches listen hard, reflect back the clients wisdom and brilliance and in so doing unmask the client’s own untapped potential for them.
Working with You
My career history includes roles as a Licensed Practical Nurse, Medical Lab Assistant, Social Worker, Social Work Supervisor, Laboratory Team Leader, Human Resources professional. I have been charged with achieving daily, monthly and annual strategic goals and deliverables. Constructive feedback, performance appraisals, care and attention to health, wellness, performance, and increasing personal and professional potential, is delivered with clarity and compassion.
In all my roles I act with the best interest of my client at the forefront, and within the confines of my professional role and accountabilities. In all my roles, ethics, standards, and confidentiality have always been of paramount consideration. In my role as a Certified Retirement and Life Transition Coach for you, I will align myself with the following Standards and Ethics for Coaches and Mentors from the International Regulator of Coaching and Mentoring, (IRCM).
It is my mission to help you find solutions to your health, career and retirement needs, so you can live long and healthy lives.
Alicia Johnson: Retirement & Life Transition Certified Coach
May 2014
