Coaching Services
Learn more about coaching to build your success
What's it all about?
Discover more about leadership coaching for individuals and the methods that Debbie finds most effective with one-to-one training and development.
What is professional coaching?
The International Coach Federation (ICF) defines coaching as partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential.
A professional coaching relationship exists when coaching includes a business agreement or contract that defines the responsibilities of each party. As a certified coach, Debbie practices according to the ICF Professional Core Competencies and adheres to the ICF Code of Ethics.
Coaching is not therapy. Debbie does not work with mental illness or spend hours digging into your personality and past behaviors. Coaching is forward focused, partnering to create new possibilities and positive goals, and working towards achieving these.
How can coaching help me or my team?
As a team leader, you have responsibility for the professional development of your team. Are you unsure about how to do this? Do you know how to create and execute individual and team development plans to move your team forward?
Coaching can help your team….
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Develop a culture of trust and respect.
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Improve working practices and communications.
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Overcome differences that can otherwise prevent a team from succeeding together.
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Resolve tough business problems.
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Address individual professional development for each team member.
Coaching can help you...
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Take stock of your strengths and opportunities and allow you to behave more intentionally.
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Increase your self-confidence and profile in ethical ways.
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Master behaviors to help move you forwards more quickly.
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Develop your own authentic leadership brand.
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Create a more balanced and fulfilling life.
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Is coaching right
for me now?
Ask yourself the following:
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Have you reached a plateau in your career and want to put some "oomph" back into your performance to move ahead again?
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Do you get feedback on a behavior that you want to change, yet are unsure how to proceed?
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Do you need someone impartial who can act as an honest sounding board for you, providing unbiased challenge and support?
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Are there parts of your role that you struggle with, although you are otherwise successful at what you do?
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Do you find it hard to work with certain people, or find some situations very difficult to deal with effectively?
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Do you have the time to work at your development?
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Are you ready to invest in yourself now?
How can Debbie help me or my team?
Debbie works with individuals with diverse backgrounds and experience. She coaches a wide spectrum of professionals, including individuals who are just starting out all the way through to seasoned senior managers.
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​As a result of coaching, she will increase your awareness and capacity to consistently behave confidently and successfully with more people in more situations.
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When working with teams, Debbie uses assessment tools as appropriate to help leaders and the co-workers learn about the value of team diversity. Teams develop greater respect for the unique contributions and qualities that each member synergistically brings to the success of the team.
Working with Debbie over a 3 to 6-month period will inspire and motivate you to:
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Regain your sense of control and focus or lost confidence
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Take your next career or promotion step
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Launch into a new business area
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Develop your leadership presence
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Follow your dreams
How does Debbie's method work?
Working in close partnership with you, as a certified coach Debbie uses a thought provoking and reflective process to address the specific behaviors, knowledge, skills and competences that will empower you to maximize your professional and personal potential.
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Debbie’s style of coaching is empowering, supportive, challenging, and nonjudgmental. Her role is to guide you to leverage your own cognitive and emotional resources so that you can make your own decisions and action plans.
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To support this process, Debbie may also use a range of leadership and assessment tools to help raise your self-awareness and gain new insights to your own behaviors and the behaviors of others in the situations that you face.
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Much of the hard work of coaching occurs between sessions when you are able to reflect and take actions to achieve your goals.
Coaching for teams
Debbie uses interactive workshops and seminars, to coach teams in a stimulating multi-participatory environment. When she facilitates these learning events, Debbie encourages the whole team to address issues that challenge effective leadership, teamwork, and company success. Her preferred approach is to couple team development activities with individual coaching for the leader to simultaneously guide them through the process.
Debbie uses assessment tools with teams to achieve greater mutual understanding and appreciation. Team members learn to recognize and build on the strengths that each person contributes. Debbie frequently works with teams to develop cultures of trust and respect where diverse teams can thrive synergistically.
Debbie also works closely with team leaders and managers to deal with the challenges and opportunities that their teams face. Through one-on-one coaching, managers gain the skills and confidence to coach and develop their teams and team members on an ongoing basis.
