Business Coaching with Tony Dovale
The goal through Business Coaching is to help clients achieve emotional and professional satisfaction and success by leading them to a healthy integration of lifestyle, values, and career.
Our Business Coaching plans are custom-designed based on each client’s specific needs and goals. We work closely with the client to map out a personalized strategy for successful professional, and personal, development.
Our Coaching philosophy is founded on 3 core approaches
• AI (Appreciative Enquiry) coaching
• AQ (Resilience) coaching
• Ontological coaching
These Coaching approaches are synthesized to incorporate the following simple steps:
Awareness:
Through information gathering, determine how performance links to current business goals, and identify areas of development as well as develop elevated levels of Self-Awareness, Self-Esteem and Self-Confidence and Self-Management.
We help our clients understand the ways that the roles they have learned to play personally, and the ways they have learned to respond to challenges in their personal lives, may impact their responses under pressure on the job.
Analysis:
Through assessment, analysis and feedback we determine what’s best to do, to close the gaps in capability, capacity and commitment.
Discover and explore most feasible, and effective, solutions to challenges and ways of being, that provide least effort, maximum leverage and desired results with sustainability.
Emotional ownership:
Whilst clear strategic thinking is a fundamental requirement, we’re also aware that many people shut down their abilities to think clearly and make decisions under pressure.
Our AQ coaching development process assists clients with learning to uncover the ways that their habituated reactions to stress can work for them and against them.
Action:
The action phase provides the bridge between the person’s inner process and outer accomplishment that’s necessary to assist clients in achieving their identified goals.
We plan and implement well-defined action steps informed by regular feedback and monitoring of progress as the coachee moves toward identified and measurable outcomes.
Hold Accountable: We work with the client to define the most effective tools and processes for achieving results. We also may ask for follow-up emails with action items after each session.
We act as a cheerleader and acknowledge progress as well as holding the client fully accountable for delivering upon agreed items.
Achievement: LMI’s approach assists clients with the understand that it’s the conversations they have with themselves that can impact everything from the confidence they project to the creativity they are able to muster when dealing with day to day challenges.
An ongoing evaluation of the coaching process, and coaching impact, provides regular measures of business results and professional outcomes. Celebrating of each step of success along the way supports further commitment to the coaching development process.
We believe that each individual is naturally creative, resourceful and whole. Nothing is broken or needs fixing. We believe that the client is ultimately in charge of guiding the coaching relationship.
We can provide suggestions, and options, as to what might work best and where to begin and challenge client’s possible choices, but the client must be willing to take charge, to make decisions and choices and ask for what they want.
We believe that the client has the potential, capacity, ability, passion and drive to succeed in anything they choose to be, do and have in their life.
Therefore our primary role is to provide the unbiased, confidential sounding-board, and probing questions, that will assist them in unlocking their own wisdom, enable them to discover their strengths, and to collaborate to create strategies for action that will fit best with who they are and what they intend to achieve.
As the coach, we never take over responsibility by acting as an expert authority, or by telling the client what they should or should not do. We make every effort in our coaching to support the client in intelligently considering the implications of their possible actions and decisions, so that success may generate continued vitality, prosperity and desired results, not only for themselves, but for others as well.
Our intention is to accelerate a client’s growth and achievement of results within a context of realistic sustainable, work / life balance. All interactions are strictly confidential.
Initial meetings with the sponsor and coaching client are face to face. The sponsor meeting is to gain insight, understanding and match overall expectations of the intervention. The initial Coachee meeting is held to ensure a complementary and harmonizing relationship fit between coach and coachee.
Thereafter we agree on a balance of either, telephonic, and/or face to face encounters. These are in accordance with each coachees’ specific work needs and time constraints. This may be a blend of weekly, bi-monthly, multiple sessions per week etc. We are flexible and collaborate very closely with each coachee to achieve their’ desired outcomes.
In between sessions we are on hand for brief tele-coaching, email interactions, homework feedback, “scores” and break-throughs.
The core intended outcomes are matched from the initial discussions with the sponsor and the coachee. Although this is the core focus of our coaching, we find that often there are other results that add to the value of the entire coaching process.
Usual outcomes, over and above initial goals, include improved self-awareness, enhanced resilience and self–confidence, clearer goals and action plans and a more motivated/inspired coachee.
As problems, possibilities and solutions exist in the eye of the beholder, through the ontological coaching aspect the coachee will have greater awareness and understanding of the 3 main areas of ontological coaching, being those of language, emotions, and body, and an understanding of how these impact perspectives, possibilities and their behaviours.
ISPI - International Society for Performance Improvement
In order to systematically close the gap between expected/required and current performance, our coaching processing is aligned with the ISPI (International Society for Performance Improvement) model. (See attached document)
Typical coaching interventions are initiated for a 90-120 day period with 60-90 day extensions thereafter. The final duration depends upon the outcomes targeted and actually achieved. Some interventions may continue over many months to years based upon the clients’ specific needs and value received.
For more information or a free session please contact Tony Dovale of Life Masters International Coaching on 083-447-6300 or 011 467-1763
- Tony Dovale
November 2006