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Frequently
Asked Questions About Coaching and Professional Organizing
What
kind of people hire Seek Solutions for coaching?
People
who work with Seek Solutions' Coaches take charge--they are high
achievers who are "up to something big." They know that creating
what you consciously want 24/7 takes strength, determination, flexibility,
and the ongoing feedback from an objective coach. They are high-achieving
leaders, executives, management, and professionals. Back
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How
does a high achiever benefit from coaching?
At Seek Solutions, we work with high achievers to help them be more
focused, effective and organized than ever professionally, so they
can have as much time as possible to enjoy a well-rounded fulfilling
life.
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How
does a person know when to hire a coach?
Coaching is one of the most efficient, effective and fiscally responsible
routes for creating more of what you want. A person is ready for
coaching when their desire for change, mastery or understanding
outweighs the desire to be completely self-sufficient or too busy,
(e.g. "not needing any help," "I should do this myself," "I don't
have time").
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How
is coaching different from having a manager, good friend, or family
member listen to you?
Our approach to coaching at Seek Solutions is to "hold" the "client's
agenda," (the client's overall purpose, intent, vision, mission
and goal). We are trained to listen objectively, with your agenda
in the forefront of the coaching relationship, to help you make
decisions based on who you are, what you want and your life's direction.
Too often, managers, friends and family want for you what they want,
with less emphasis on what is best for you from your perspective.
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Isn't
being a coach like being a consultant?
A consultant is an expert in a given area, hired to give advice
in that area and often held responsible to create change with or
without the direct involvement of the client at each appointment.
In coaching,
however, both client and coach are responsible for the success of
each session, and it is the client's job to implement change in
between sessions. An Olympic athlete, for example, could not hire
a coach to do their field events or practice for them. This approach
is known as "Co-Active Coaching" which is taught at the Coaches
Training Institute, (CTI), San Rafael, CA, USA, where Shannon Seek,
CPPC and most Seek Solutions' Associate Coaches have trained.
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What
is the difference between a mentor and a coach?
A mentor is an expert in the specific area in which they are advising
someone. A mentor's job is to guide a person through the nuts and
bolts of success in a particular area. In the purest sense, a coach
is an expert in asking the right questions so the client gets in
touch with their own inner wisdom, versus giving advice.
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How
is coaching different from therapy?
While coaching, like anything that forwards our goals and spirits,
can be healing as an experience, it is not therapy. Coaching is
focused on the present process and making it work to help the client
get what they want now and in the future. While therapy usually
has the intention of improving a client's current situation, it
is often focused on healing by processing the client's emotions
and past deeply and integrating it into the present.
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How
does coaching help remove obstacles to my success?
Through coaching, Seek Solutions works with you to identify blind
spots, fine-tune behaviors and develop your professional and personal
foundation, (values, vision, life purpose).
This usually
requires a trained "second set of eyes" in order to be objective
with you so that you can realize your goals and dreams.
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How
does Seek Solutions approach getting a client organized?
We look at how our client thinks. How will they remember to find
their keys, their tax receipts, their expense reports,or their birth
certificate? Where are they inclined to naturally place things or
look for things? What makes it easy for them to put things where
they belong? We encourage them to use their own language to label
things--usually the first thing that comes to mind is the best.
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What
is something special about the Seek Solutions' approach to getting
organized?
We emphasize the freedom to be creative, while being practical at
the same time. The more our client relates and identifies with a
system we help them design and create, the more likely our client
is going to want to use and implement it. In other words, the system
put in to place needs to be sensible, easy, understandable, interesting,
and even novel to the person(s) using it. Imposing a numerical,
colorless file system on a person who hates math and likes color
is pointless or vice versa.
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How
can coaching support the process of getting and staying organized?
Since there is often less immediate gratification from maintaining
a system as with the huge noticeable difference you experience when
you organize something initially, maintenance can be one of the
more difficult habits to reinforce. Over time, coaching can support
the practice of maintaining and fine-tuning professionally organized
spaces, work flow and systems.
And, coaching
has even more access to personal or professional goals, intent,
values, vision, and/or life purpose to make organizing fun and meaningful.
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Seek
Solutions
Executive and Business Coaching · Professional Organizing
Shannon Seek's Organic Organizing Matrix (OOM) ·
Bridge Line Rental / Teleconference & Web Conferencing Services
Contact us at findit@seeksolutions.com.
Or, directly at Seek Solutions, Marin County, California, USA
Tel +1 (415) 925-8856 or Fax at +1 (415) 461-8264
Since 1995
All Rights Reserved. © 1995-2004 Shannon Seek, CPCC, Seek Solutions.
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