What is coaching? It is the process of leveraging your own strengths to increase your effectiveness, and thus reach your personal and professional goals more readily. Coaching works to solve challenges in the present. Coaching assist you or your organization in setting both short and long terms goals, and developing strategies that produces favorable and obtainable outcomes. It gives you the opportunity for a specified period of time to focus on working on those things that have been waiting for your attention.

What coaching is not? Coaching is not a replacement for therapy. My focus as your coach is to work with you on improving your life now. Our time is not spent focusing on your past regrets and emotional issues, but rather focusing on your efforts to make a choice to live your life in the present.

Why does coaching work? Coaching works because you have a collaborator who believes in you and works with you on an ongoing basis to keep you focused on what it is you want to accomplish. It allows you to systematically stay on top of the goals, plans and strategies that you have developed.

What kinds of tools may be used in the coaching session? Coaching uses the following tools: discovery questioning, creative visualization, goal setting, strengths inventory assessment, outrageous requesting, strategy development work, contextual listening, gap bridging, goal-setting and celebrating what is. These are just some of the tools that may be part of the coaching sessions.

How do you define coaching? It is the technology and the art of causing a shift or shifts to take place so that individuals and/or teams are able to develop their goals and maximize their potential

How does coaching work with you? Typically in my coaching session I provide two, three or four forty-five minute phone sessions per month. I also provide in person coaching session on a case-by-case basis. I work with clients who are highly motivated, responsible, and willing to invest in themselves and their future. I also provide additional follow up opportunities for my clients to contact me via email or phone. All coaching conversations are held in the strictest confidence. In order to begin the coaching process, I may be reached by my email address at dex@richardsonmanagment.net or you may call me at 919-270-3934.