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Business Coaching
with Linda Naiman
"In the world of organizational development, coaching has become the most effective tool to accelerate results in learning and professional development and building engaged workplaces and lives."
— The University of British Columbia, HR department
While training and facilitation can produce powerful results, coaching provides the missing components to creating lasting change: Accountability and commitment. Transformation occurs more readily when organizations include coaching, to support leaders and teams to follow-up and follow-through.
One study examined the effects of executive coaching amongst managers in the public sector. Training — which included goal setting, collaborative problem solving, practice, and feedback, — increased productivity by 22.4%. Training and coaching increased productivity by 88%. (Public Personnel Management; Winter 1997; Olivero, Bane and Kopelman)
What is business coaching?
The word coach comes from the French — a vehicle for transporting people from one place to another.
Coaching is a collaborative process involving self-discovery, goal setting and strategic actions, designed to help you create exceptional results. Through the process of coaching, you will deepen your learning, improve your performance, and enhance your quality of life. Coaching transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary and the result is alchemical.
How does coaching work?
Coaching is about asking the right questions. It's not about having all the answers. As your coach, I am your trusted thinking partner.
- I ask you thought-provoking questions to help you find clarity of purpose and new insights that lead to solutions.
- I see possibilities for greatness in you.
- I help you identify or define your aspirations and challenges, then partner with you to help you achieve success — on your terms.
I’m here to listen objectively, make observations, and help you find the answers that are right for you. If you need expert help, beyond my knowledge-base, I will do my best to find the right resource for you.
Coaching concentrates on where you are now, where you want to be, and what you are willing to do to create success (as you define it). As a coach I encourage you and celebrate with you along the way. I also hold you responsible and accountable for your progress. The results you achieve depend on your intentions, choices, commitment and actions.
Coaching can be used to:
- Achieve greater levels of influence and impact
- Assess competencies, and uncover blind spots
- Improve 360º performance review results
- Follow up on training and anchor learning
- Set goals and stay on track
- Plan prioritize and strategise
- Improve leadership, management or sales performance
- Provide clarity and insight
- Identify your vision, mission and purpose
- Innovate: Turn ideas into action
- Facilitate the building of a shared vision and shared values
- Design a desirable work/life balance
- Navigate changes in career
What is the difference between coaching and therapy?
Therapy focuses on relieving psychological pain and treating cognitive or emotional disorders. While therapy helps heal the past, coaching starts with the present, and seeks to help healthy clients design a more desirable future.
What are the benefits of coaching?
Coaching accelerates your progress, by providing you with greater awareness, and focus. What value can coaching bring to your life?:
- Improved relationships (personal, professional and volunteer)
- Amplified creativity, productivity and efficiency in teams
- Create the basis for planning career advancement
- Increased income
- Enriched quality of life
- Overcome creative blocks and complete a special project (i.e. write a book, build a boat, perform in a play)
How can I help you?
Please call + 1 604.327.1565 or send an email by clicking on the Contact link below. Thank you.
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November 7, 2006
To Whom It May Concern:
This is a letter of recommendation recognising Linda Naiman’s unique counsel and ability as a life coach. Linda’s receptivity to my circumstances and subsequent advice helped me greatly during a trying, emotional time. Without going into the gory details, I was confronted with some difficult family judicial issues throughout 2005. Luckily, I met Linda in the late summer as I prepared for an October showdown.
Within less than an hour on the phone, Linda had me sized up and set out to facilitate my approach to the issues that confronted me. Through her ability to promote vision and discipline, we quickly arrived at a multi-stage action plan. Progress was made (I began writing, envisioning, seriously preparing for what lay ahead), we reviewed that progress and set about updating and tweaking the action plan. Our sessions were of huge benefit and importance to my personal development during that time and since.
Linda insisted I ask myself the difficult but visionary career-related questions. When we met, I was at the entry level of my institution. Since I met Linda just over a year ago, I have received 2 promotions and other distinctions within my organisation. I attribute much of this success to my new-found ability to envision/chart my course and take action to realise the vision. Linda taught me this skill and made it stick.
I also have Linda to thank for coaching me to a surprisingly one-sided legal victory. I know I forged the road but without Linda’s engineering ability, that road would have been rough and disjointed indeed.
Blue Skies,
Dan Wingham
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