Why Life Coaching with Piers Thurston in london

Why Does Coaching Work?

Life coaching has been around for almost 20 years now and it has become increasingly popular during the past 10 years. In the workplace, coaching is almost commonplace - 80% of FTSE top 100 companies now use coaching.

Coaching is an client centered interactive, future- focused, non directive process where the coach guides and facilitates your progress towards defined goals. Sounds good, but what does that mean....

For me, there are 4 key words to use when describing how coaching works:

Awareness - Sometimes we don't know what we don't know, and can't see the wood for the trees. A coach can enable you to gain new insights about yourself.

Focus - We often don't take time and space to think nowadays, and reflect on what is really important. Even if we do, we still aren't able to do it objectively and it can get a bit muddled. A coach help you set out your thoughts, priorities and ideas clearly and logically so the mist lifts!

Responsibility - Realising that we have huge amounts of choice can be massively empowering or paralysing! But ultimately we are the person who needs to take charge and make things happen for ourselves. A coach can enable you to realise where you need to take responsibility for own your behaviours and outcomes.

Commitment - Talking about stuff is all well and good, but actually taking action is where the real benefit happens, so coaching is always about agreeing actions and commitments to change.

So what is the role of the coach?

A coach helps their client to identify what they want to achieve. Once identified, the coach supports their client throughout their quest to achieve their goals, helping to keep the client focused and on track and to overcome any challenges and obstacles on the way to their goal. Often providing insights, and techniques for you to overcome obstacles and interference, or just enbaling you to reduce the gap between thinking and doing

Also it is not necessarily that the life coach is smarter than you or knows more than you, but it is a way to focus on what you want your life to be, so you come up with a plan on how to get there with the support and motivation from an outside, objective person. Coaching is largely non directive, enabling you to gain responsibilty and commitment, and I am not going to - 'tell' you the answer....

However on some of the tools I use, there is an element of me demonstrating a way of doing something to you that can choose to experiment and engage with, if you choose.

.A bit more about how my coaching business works....

I limit the number of clients I have to ensure everyone receives my full attention. I believe your happiness is crucial and not to be compromised. I respect and value you as a client, and as a human being, and I adhere strictly to my Code of Practice.

FeelHappyNow was established in 2002, and I have coached hundreds of clients for 1000's of hours in my career. I am experienced and have successes in numerous coaching context and subject area. Read some quotes here

I provide a tailored service and, after an initial session, I can offer you a choice of how you want to go about achieving your outcomes. Due to my coaching experience and comprehensive toolkit there are often different ways and approaches we can take to enable you to get to your outcome, ranging from more therapeutic and holistic to more action and performance focused.

I take a pragmatic and realistic view of how the world works, which is reinforced by my practical commercial background.

While I am always open to new effective methods, I don’t bombard you with any ‘new age alternative' approaches that involve reading your fortunes, moving around your furniture or analysing your tea leaves! I only use techniques that I find actually make a real difference.

How does it work? It really depends on, you the client. I have a tailored approach to my coaching and every client's requirements are different, whether that be in what they want to work on, or how they want to work. During the past 10 years I have develop a comprehensive toolkit to help move my clients forward in the most effective, speedy and sustainable way possible. Read more about my approaches

What are the typical areas I work with people on?

Career decisions and development

Entrepreneurial and Small Business Development

Confidence and self esteem

Relationship decisions

Increasing motivation or creativity

Overcoming procrastination

Overcoming anxiety and fear

Setting life goals

Work life balance, and stress management

If you want to know more about whether you are ready for coaching have a go at answering the questions here