SheChanges: How We'll Work

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How We'll Work

Coaching typically occurs over the phone, which makes it easy and convenient to conduct sessions despite the circumstances of travel, geography or proximity. Imagine getting coached in your pajamas from home! For those clients that prefer face-to-face sessions, I conduct sessions in my home office in Portland.

Prior to engaging in a formal coaching relationship, I typically offer a free sample session to give you an idea of what coaching looks like and who I am as a coach. This is a free ½ hour session with no necessary agreement to extend to additional coaching sessions.

After expressing interest in starting a coaching relationship, I will send you a coaching agreement, ethics statement, and discovery form to be completed and returned to me prior to our first meeting.

I conduct an initial “discovery” session (2 hours) as the first step in the coaching process. At this time, we design our relationship and discuss your responses on the discovery form. Together, we clarify values, what you want for yourself, why you are coming to coaching - and establish clear goals and expectations for the coaching sessions. This session is critical to the success of coaching in that it sets the foundation for our relationship – it lets me know how to be as your coach and helps me to hold your agenda if/when you start to stray.

Coaching sessions then begin the following week. The first month of coaching includes the 2 hour discovery session, plus two ½ hour coaching sessions. After this initial month, you are able to select your preferred frequency/duration - either three ½-hour or two 45-minute sessions per month (for a total of 1.5 hours of coaching per month). These coaching sessions are initiated by you at the time of your appointment.

It is essential that you continue to benefit from these coaching sessions and get what you need. To that end, I will be soliciting feedback from you periodically to check-in with you on how things are working, ensure alignment and clarify expectations.