Engaging the skills of a Coach can be viewed as a partnership and process that helps you to bridge the gap between where you are and where you want to be in both your personal and professional life.

Coaching is a rapidly developing profession and is quite distinctive from counselling, training, mentoring, consulting and teaching but does draw upon elements of each.

• Coaching is not therapy, which deals with healing the past. Rather it is enhancing the present and future.
• Coaching is not consulting, although some coaches may be consultants in their fields. Consultants will access situations, provide solutions and often implement plans, while coaches may lead you to your own solutions, by asking questions, making suggestions, identifying resources and offering choices so that you can learn to make a good choice for yourself.
• A coach is not a paid friend. While friends are valuable, friends often do not hold you accountable because they do not wish to jeopardize the friendship. Often they also lack the specific skills a life coach has to help you set appropriate goals, and guide you to change behaviours and so on.
• A  Coach is not a trainer.  The primary goal of any training is to prepare trainees to perform effectively on a specific post-training task and to impart specific competencies.

Coaching is more about helping you to change your thinking and behaviour rather than about intellectual learning. It cultivates a character based life from inside out.

Ultimately it's about coming face to face with yourself, discovering what your PURPOSE in life is and working towards achieving it both personally and professionally. 

This is our point of difference.  While we assist you to gain clarity, set and achieve goals and help you move to where you want to be, we do these through the paradigm of purpose and meaning.  We believe everyone is born for a purpose, but not many actually discover their life purpose and therefore are unable to align their life to their purpose.

What would be the point of setting and achieving goals if these were not in alignment of with your purpose?

While our On-Purpose Coaches assist you to fulfil your potential you will need to have a strong desire to live life more holistically, abundantly and On-Purpose.

So imagine what it would be like to have your own personal cheerleader, someone who sees your potential, and believes in you perhaps even more than you believe in yourself. – Someone totally focussed on YOU.

Imagine having someone who will help you to…

• Set goals and develop strategies and action plans!
• Persist when the going gets tough!
• Tackle life issues. Non-productive habits and patterns!
• Unlock your potential and stretch you to achieve what you are capable of!
• Improve your performance!
• Plan and prioritise more effectively!
• Minimise your mistakes
• Make wise decisions
• ACKNOWLEDGE AND ACCEPT YOU

On-Purpose Coaches are Certified by The On-Purpose® Life Academy and are members of the International Coach Federation.  By 2008 all of our coaches will have attained a Graduate Certificate or Graduate Diploma in Coaching with specialisation in one or more of the following:

• Life coaching
• Executive and leadership coaching
• Workplace coaching
• Third Age and Retirement coaching
• Sales coaching
• Careers coaching
• Business coaching
• Rehabilitation coaching (See our FreshStart Program)
• Transition coaching
• Relationship coaching

Some people mistakenly think that coaching is about ‘fixing’ someone up.  This often has a negative stigma attached to it.  This is definitely not so.  Top performers in all walks of life have coaches or mentors to help them be successful – to live their dreams and to help them reach their potential.  Champion sports men and women, successful executives, happy homemakers, talented musicians all have one thing in common - they all have a coach to help them be even better and more successful at life or their field of endeavour.

Take a few minutes right now to find out if you are ready for coaching.

© On-Purpose Life Academy 2007 

Add up your score    Total out of 200

Under 100

Thank you for completing the quiz.  Coaching is not for you right now but you may wish to do this again in another 3-6 months to see if you life wants and needs have changed.

Between 101 and 140

There is an indication that coaching could assist you to make changes in certain areas of your life.  You will need to make a commitment to the coaching relationship if you really want to see results.

Between 141 and 200

Well done!  Coaching is really for you.  You are passionate about making life changes and with a strong commitment to the process you will be delighted with your results.  Contact us now for your Free Introductory Coaching Session. This one click could make a life-time difference for you and to those around you! We pay for the phone call.

How Does Coaching Work?

The features of our coaching process include the following:

1. A complementary coaching session
   In this session you will discover more about the coaching relationship and the coaching process.  We will work through and issue/goal/habit that you want to deal with, improve or change. You will even be able to use some life-changing tools for goal setting, clarifying, prioritising and action planning – And all this is complementary with no obligation, no expectation - totally unconditional.  This is our gift to you.
2. The introductory 60-90 minute coaching session by phone/skype or face-to-face or web cam.
3. On-going 30-90min weekly or fortnightly sessions by phone or face-to-face or web cam.

   This features the following:

   Face to face or by phone/skype

   Your background information

   How the coaching sessions work

   How long each session will be

   Frequency of coaching sessions

   Clarify our respective roles

   Establish a coaching agreement

   Clarify the coaching period

   Method of communication between sessions

   Feedback, monitoring and accountability

   Clarify your goals and prioritise your number one goal

4. Email support as required
5. Session summaries
6. ‘Call-ins’ as required
7. The coaching period is usually 3-6 months but can be varied by mutual agreement, depending on your needs and which program you undertake.
8. Code of ethics is based on those articulated by the International Coach Federation

Coaching is all about empowering you.  Our skills are to help you clarify the important changes you want to make in your life and to know the right questions to ask you, to have a range of tools and techniques that will assist you and to develop a relationship of mutual trust, mutual commitment, mutual respect, mutual confidentiality, and mutual benefit.