Professional coaching focuses on setting goals, creating outcomes and managing personal change. Sometimes it’s helpful to understand coaching by distinguishing it from other personal or organizational support professions.
Therapy: Therapy deals with healing pain, dysfunction and conflict within an individual or in relationships. The focus is often on resolving difficulties arising from the past that hamper an individual’s emotional functioning in the present, improving overall psychological functioning, and dealing with the present in more emotionally healthy ways. Coaching, on the other hand, supports personal and professional growth based on self-initiated change in pursuit of specific actionable outcomes. These outcomes are linked to personal or professional success. Coaching is future-focused. While positive feelings/emotions may be a natural outcome of coaching, the primary focus is on creating actionable strategies for achieving specific goals in one’s work or personal life. The emphases in a coaching relationship are on action, accountability, and follow-through.
Consulting: Individuals or organizations retain consultants for their expertise. While consulting approaches vary widely, the assumption is the consultant will diagnose problems and prescribe and, sometimes, implement solutions. With coaching, the assumption is that individuals or teams are capable of generating their own solutions, with the coach supplying supportive, discovery-based approaches and frameworks.
Mentoring: A mentor is an expert who provides wisdom and guidance based on his or her own experience. Mentoring may include advising, counseling and coaching. The coaching process does not include advising or counseling and focuses instead on individuals or groups setting and reaching their own objectives.
Training: Training programs are based on objectives set out by the trainer or instructor. Though objectives are clarified in the coaching process, they are set by the individual or team being coached, with guidance provided by the coach. Training also assumes a linear learning path that coincides with an established curriculum. Coaching is less linear without a set curriculum.
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Sessions are typically conducted over WhatsApp or Zoom. If you have a different preferred channel, please let me know.
For those based in Singapore, face-to-face meetings are also possible, subject to availability
To determine whether you could benefit from coaching, start by summarising what you would expect to accomplish in coaching. When you have a fairly clear idea of the desired outcome, a coaching partnership can be a useful tool for developing a strategy for how to achieve that outcome with greater ease.
Since coaching is a partnership, ask yourself whether collaboration, other viewpoints, and new perspectives are valued. Also, ask yourself whether you are ready to devote the time and the energy to making real changes. If the answer is yes, then coaching may be a beneficial way to grow and develop.
- Provides objective assessment and observations that foster your self-awareness and awareness of others.
- Listens closely to fully understand yourself.
- Acts as a sounding board in exploring possibilities and implementing thoughtful planning and decision making.
- Champions opportunities and potential, encouraging stretch and challenge corresponding with personal strengths and aspirations.
- Fosters shifts in thinking that reveal fresh perspectives.
- Challenges blind spots to illuminate new possibilities and support the creation of alternative scenarios.
- Maintains professional boundaries in the coaching relationship, including confidentiality, and adheres to the coaching profession’s code of ethics.
ICF defines coaching as partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential, which is particularly important in today’s uncertain and complex environment. Coaches honor the client as the expert in his or her life and work and believe every client is creative, resourceful and whole. Source: International Coach Federation
Payment methods include PayLah, PayNow and Paypal. You have the option to pay for 6 sessions in one go, or in two payments – one at the start and another at the end of the third session.
For ad-hoc sessions, while you can get coaching sessions as low as $180 per hour, my charges are $250 per hour as I bring with me years of experience and my training and accreditation. For multiple sessions, please contact me for the packages.
Coaching is…
- Helping an individual maximize their performance, development or fulfillment through unlocking what is already inside themselves.
- Non-directive – it is about the individual having the answers.
- It is a power-free relationship – adult to adult.
Mentoring is …
- When a more experienced person, who understands the business or environment that the mentee is operating in offers guidance and shares their experiences.
- The mentor offers expertise, connections and support to the mentee to help them in their development.
It is okay to have both as they bring different benefits.
As your coach, I only want the best for you, and to be of help to you. It is important to me that you feel free to end our coaching if it is non-beneficial or not helping you, if your life or your goals change, or if you just need something else. Unused sessions will be refunded.
The chemistry between the coach and client is crucial and the chemistry call is where the coach is also assessing what works for the client. Beyond that, you should have your goals in mind ready and we can, together, address how your life is progressing through various metrics that can help you identify if it is working for you or not.
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Career progression, achieving work-life balance, self-confidence, discover life purpose and direction, stress management, conflict management, improve on communication skills, leadership skills, getting unstuck on climate change.
I have coached youth, managers and entrepreneurs. For coaches, I am also doing peer coaching where I get coaching by giving coaching to expand my experience and expose myself to different styles/approaches by going through them. Most importantly, deepen the self-awareness process through constructive feedback from each other.
In my profession, I follow the ICF Code of Ethics. All information shared with me is kept confidential. If, however, you are have indicated that you are at risk of harming yourself or others, I am legally obliged to report this for your own and others’ safety. Should I also coach your friend or colleague, you can be certain that nothing from our coaching discussions is shared. Similarly, if your company has hired me as your coach, the content of our work together remains confidential.
My coaching journey began in a corporate setting back in 2011. Since then, I’ve honed my skills through professional training at the Co-Active Training Institute® and earned my Associate Certified Coach (ACC) accreditation from the International Coach Federation (ICF). Additionally, I’ve explored Counseling and Psychotherapy with The School of Positive Psychology, and immersed myself in Positive Psychology Coaching Training under the guidance of Dr. Robert Biswas-Diener. These experiences have enriched my approach to coaching and deepened my understanding of personal growth and development.
Depending on what you’re looking for, you’re looking at a minimum of a one-hour call, or a maximum of 6 full sessions of coaching, which can be extended if necessary. Contact me to customize your coaching needs.
I comply with the ICF Code of Ethics to maintain the strictest levels of confidentiality with all client and sponsor information unless release is required by law.