Coaching

Coaching is a relatively new profession, which draws upon and employs a wealth of information from fields as diverse as psychology, philosophy and spirituality as well as business and finance.

Coaching takes place in a variety of settings and can be utilised by individuals or groups. Regardless of the setting, the focus is always to achieve real and tangible results.

A coach is a trained professional who uses specialised communication tools alongside their life experience to help you to:

• Define who and where you are/would like to be
• Define strengths/weaknesses
• Design a plan of action
• Make decisions
• Reach goals

Coaching can be broad based or specific; it is a very flexible and forward-looking approach to reaching your full potential.

A coach works with you all the way to ensure that the decisions you make and the actions that you take are designed by you and are in your best interest. They enable you to ensure that you achieve the most balanced and fulfilled life possible for you.

When do people choose coaching?

Coaching is very much a 'want' as opposed to a 'need'. Some people approach coaching as a means of 'brainstorming' their lives; they may feel that change is necessary or need support during a time of transition. Others use coaching to help them to achieve a greater level of work-life integration or to enable them to perform differently either personally or professionally.

How does it work?

Coaching takes place in person; on the telephone or via email. It may last from several weeks to several months or years. The structure and duration of the coaching relationship will be agreed and reviewed overtime between the coach and the coachee.

Coaching can only ever work with the full commitment of the recipient. The coachee must ensure that they are open to the process as a coach will not only champion you, but will make requests of you and ask you to experiment.

Through a complementary session, your coach will set aside time for questions and will also be honest with you as regards their suitability to be your coach. Should it be necessary they can refer you to a colleague if they believes they will better serve you.

Provided that you have an open mind and a willingness to work, through coaching you should expect to make lifelong gains.

We work with a team of coaches and other lifestyle professionals each with their own area of expertise.

Our coaching programmes can be seen in more detail in the following pages. These include;

• The Print® survey
• Career development and transition
• Work performance
• Wellbeing

• Our coaches

  Alice Whitney

  Alice conducted her initial training with Coach University who are the global leaders in coach training. She has since gained her licence in career development and transition coaching and in use of the Print® survey tool. She has strong academic and corporate employment backgrounds and undertook a radical career change in order to run Positive Touch since 2001. Through this period she has worked closely with a range of different individuals and businesses and has developed an extensive network of well-being professionals. Her current coaching clients are a diverse group and Alice enjoys the challenges they bring. Her coaching niche is in supporting and empowering clients to identify and achieve a sense of personal well being through the realignment of their work-life integration. Alice is a licensed career coach so is qualified to provide support to those seeking a new direction in life or career change. Through her previous businesses experience and her personal motivation she is ideally suited to providing guidance and reinforcement to those with entrepreneurial spirit and the will to succeed on the strength of their own endeavours. Ultimately, Alice is excited to work with anyone who is ready and willing to create the professional and/or personal life that they know they deserve.

  Heather Harris

  Heather graduated from Coach U’s Coach Training Programme in 2001 and holds the International Coach Federation credential of Professional Certified Coach. Her consultancy Red Resource, now in its 16th year, has served a broad range of clients on both sides of the Atlantic. Red Coach focuses on Work Performance Coaching, primarily although not exclusively in ‘creative’ industries, reflecting Heather’s own background on the ‘inside’. She has produced a body of exclusive Red Coaching material and created a unique Coaching/Training product in her Work Performance programme. All Red Coaching meets the criteria of:simple, practical, human & effective. Whatever the work situation, whatever the level of seniority, Red Coaching helps people do their jobs better. Heather is a certified Print Coach, licensed to use the Print identification tool and all Print strategies in support of better performance in the workplace, and is also a trained community mediator.

  Please contact us should you have any queries or complete the business coaching enquiry form or the personal coaching enquiry form.