Busy Women Business Owners & Solution-Focused Coaching - A Pivotal Shift

Posted on August 25, 2014 by Nancy Beaton, One of Thousands of Business Coaches on Noomii.

Life coaching methods offers a variety of avenues to explore for busy women business owners. There are many quality courses and accredited coaching programs for a coach to experience and build upon. The one of particular interest is termed Solution Focused Coaching.

This comes from Erickson College and their program the Art and Science of Coaching. This to me is the pivotal journey a coach and client can take together. This process offers a tremendous partnership between client and coach, and one I have chosen to embrace.

Solution focused coaching offers you a process to connect deeply and actively to begin making certain shifts in your personal and business life.

Four Possibilities In Moving You Forward

1. You will be challenged – encouraged to take an active, honest look at where you are at now.

2. You will gain clarity – as you explore your current time in life, you then can begin to sense how your future can unfold.

3. You will be inspired – as you and your coach begin to open and expand your possibilities, motivation builds and creative ideas begin to formulate.

4. You will be engaged – as you and your coach will look at development and accomplishments already within you. This can lead to discovering skill sets you already have to move you forward. A productive and effective outcome will begin to take shape. Planning and tasks will actually be completed.

Three Simple Questions To Begin Your Solution Focused Approach

Exploring these three questions with your coach will begin to set you on a path to awareness with the resources you already have within you to answer them:

• What do you really want and how will you know you’ve achieved it?
• How far will you go to create the life you want?
• What will you truly commit to in order to see your dreams become an active reality?

With the solution-focused approach, your coach is there to support your process, to sponsor you towards taking ownership in realizing your life’s dreams. Solution focused coaching becomes a systematic clarity of focus, finding out what winning in life means to you.

Solution Focused Methods

There is a plethora of processes within solution focused coaching. As a busy women business owner, these methods won’t take months and months to accomplish or process. In fact, they can offer the opportunity to move forward quickly, leaving you free from all the internal monkey chatter and apprehension you may feel.

Some methods include Erickson language patterns, Whiteboard Coaching, NLP tools and Four-Quadrant thinking; each offering you a desire for flexibility and creativity, and for closer, more meaningful relationships with yourself and those around you. As a result, you begin to experience a richer, deeper meaning to your life, to your own unique path.

Four Ways Solution Focused Coaching Invites Clarity

Solution-focused coaching not only moves you quickly from inhibiting, internal feelings, it will also invite awareness within you to make decisions quicker:

• Clarity about your values and belief systems.
• Clarity in designing a creative and empowering future for yourself.
• Clarity in expanding your creative focus.
• Clarity on how to stay on target when challenges arise.

More and more people are turning to life coaching for support and guidance. The corporate world is seeking people with a coaching background to manage their departments more effectively. People with high aspirations are partnering with coaches to help them stay focused, gain clarity and take action steps through to completion.

A Partnership Develops

As a solution focused coach, you and I will develop a partnership that will see you challenged, inspired, engaged and gain clarity about your life and business as a whole. You will become motivated and play an active role in what you imagine. You will be the driving force in realizing your dreams.

Solution-focused coaching offers a pathway for you that create choice and change. Explore, strategize, implement and create your unique pathway to reach your dreams.

I leave you with this quote from the late Thomas Leonard, a key developer in this growing profession:

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