Case Studies

During our initial coaching session we will identify your needs. After that we will develop a programme to establish achievable goals and regularly track your progress towards meeting them. We will meet in person or on the phone. We can email eachother. These sessions will be your time.

Marianne is a mom and works part time. She was upset because she did not feel she was accomplishing enough each week. We discussed why she thought that and I sent her home with work to do: make a list of everything she did over the next two weeks.

What happened? She came back very satisfied with herself and feeling much relief. She had done SO many things- she just had not realized it. She did regular day-to-day activities, but had also arranged a dinner party and spent some quality time with her kids.

She needed a change in perspective- not a change in her life!

Max had a new staff member to work with. They did not like each other, but since Max had been in the office longer, it became his responsibility to make the new staff member feel welcome and to train him. Max felt very depressed and unsure of himself. I directed Max to take the new member out for coffee, one -to-one. Max hated the idea but finally agreed to it. We spent a session giving Max suggestions for topics of conversations. The day came. Max took the staff member out for coffee. Max said later that he hadn't had to worry about conversation. The staff member had so many questions to ask and Max gave him direct attention- and answered the questions. So, they will not have a perfect working relationship, but at least they are managing. The others in the workplace were relieved.

Lisa has her own business. She has been doing alright, but has lost impetus to go on. We had many discussions about why she was in this business and what she wanted to gain from it. We discussed the various steps she would need to take to keep the business functioning. It turns out, there is one chore that she could not get through. Why couldn't she do it? It seemed to her too much to accomplish. I asked her to describe all the component parts, ie : learning some key phrases (15 minutes to look through a training manual and make notes).
Making phone calls (what was the purpose, what time of day, how long should the phone call take, what would she say? )

These were small steps, but they broke down the enormous barrier. Within a week she was back in self confident mode!

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Name: Marianne

Type of Coaching: By phone

Name: Max

Type Of Coaching: By phone

Name: Lisa

Type of Coaching: In person