Christian Coaching - an Exciting New Discipline

A professional coach is a personal change expert. Coaches help people like you grow faster, understand themselves more deeply, and live out god's purpose with greater effectiveness and fulfillment. In the same way that a personal trainer helps a pro athlete maximize performance, a personal coach can help you take you r life or ministry to a whole new level.

A coach is not an expert in a certain field who gives you advice (that's consulting), or a professional who prescribes what you need to become a whole person (that's counseling. Neither is a coach someone more senior than you who is imparting to you what God has placed in him or her (that's mentoring). Instead, coaches are change experts who help you develop a unique solution that works for your individual situation.

Below are four key characteristics that taken together set coaching apart from counseling, teaching or mentoring:

Coaching is a Transformational Conversation
The biggest surprise for first-time clients is realizing that the coach isn't there to give advice. Instead, powerful, incisive questions stimulate you to examine the things in life that matter most from new angles. A coaching conversation transforms the way you look at life, because your coach will push you to reflect more deeply, express yourself clearly and be explicit about your goals and values.
Coaching is a Transparent Relationship
A coach is a friend and confidant, your greatest supporter, someone who knows you well enough to recognize the greatness God has placed in you and then challenge you to rise to it. A transparent relationship with a coach frees you to go to places you've never gone before.
Coaching is a Support System for Change
With support, encouragement and accountability from someone who believes in us, we can do far more than we'd ever accomplish alone. A coach helps you stay on track, overcome obstacles and convert a desire for change into concrete steps that get in your date book and get done.
Coaching is Continuous Leadership Development
Coaches don't give solutions: they help you find the answers to your own problems. Coaching is helping you learn instead of telling you what to do. This approach builds your character and capacity as a leader and a person, preparing you to climb even bigger mountains in the future.

The answer is, "Just about anything!" Performance coaching does just what its name says: it helps you increase your performance. Or you can work at discovering your destiny, organizing your life, getting into an exercise program, refocusing on your priorities, revamping your prayer life…you only need to answer the question, "What do I want to do different?"

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