The Coaching Process

Current theory, research and practice into leadership maintains that the basis of effective leadership is self-awareness. The coaching process aims to provide learning opportunities for the client to achieve personal and professional insights.

Put simply, a coaching relationship creates an opportunity for executives to take a close look at and define where they are in their personal and professional life, take stock of what they are happy with, and what they would like to change.

An experienced coach will invite you to look at the whole picture in its complexity, and dream where you want to be in the future and decide what you need to do today, to get there.

The coach will provide experiential learning processes to enable you to understand and reflect on the current situation. The process will also enable you to design what action you will take, and break down your goals into manageable tasks. In between sessions you have an opportunity to apply new learning to real situations, and in turn, reflect on those new experiences in the next coaching session.

The coach is constantly there to encourage and support you in your effort to gain personal insight into your own leadership potential and personal history, and achieve your goals.

At GCA the coaching process is innovative in its ability to be specifically tailored to the needs of every individual. The coaches are flexible in their application of a broad range of evidence-based methodologies to respond to the different and changing needs of each executive.

GCA does not provide solutions. The most powerful tool a GCA coach can bring to a client is experienced facilitation and processes that enable executives to find answers within themselves. By providing meaningful experiences, and reflecting on those experiences, clients integrate real learning into their self-awareness, and so can continue to achieve their goals long after the coaching process has finished.

Changing Behaviour

What we do in the world and the way we contribute to organisations is fundamentally a function of the way we view the world. Most of the time we are quite unaware of the details of all the beliefs and values that make up our worldview and which we employ quite unconsciously to everything that we encounter.

Learning is about identifying our driving values, testing them against other worldviews to create new meaning from which we can reflect, plan and act in ways more appropriate to our conscious intention. A coach will help to uncover your worldview, including any roadblocks which may be holding you back from achieving more success.

The process is designed to stretch and support you to gain personal insights or achieve the actions you have set for yourself and, more importantly, will unveil behavioural insights and unfounded beliefs that contsantly get in the way of personal achievement.