Application

Preparing for Coaching

This information helps to guide our coaching. Please take your time filling this out – the questions are designed to help you think of yourself deeply, considering what is most important to you, what you do the best and when you are at your best.

Your Professional History
Name*
First Last
Name of your organization:*
Please describe the mission of your organization:
Please attach your resume, C.V. or a brief biography describing your professional experience. Please include a photograph
Max. file size: 256 MB.
Contact Information
Email*
Skype ID:
Generally, what is the best time of day/evening for coaching calls? Please include your time zone*
Your History
Describe your three greatest accomplishments to date*
What made these accomplishments stand out for you?
What have you incorporated into your current actions from your past accomplishments?
How could you use what you’ve learned from these accomplishments to assist you in making future changes?
What major transitions have you had in the past two years? (For example, new assignment, new residence, new relationship, etc.)
If you worked with a coach before or a similar one-on-one adult relationship (for example, tennis coach, piano teacher, therapist) what worked well for you?
Your Role Models
Who are or have been your major role models?
What attributes of these role models do you admire and want to emulate?
Who are the key supportive people in your life, and what do they provide for you?
Your Self Today
List five adjectives that describe you at your best
What prevents you from being at your best?
What energizes you?
What saps your energy?
Your Potential
What is your personal and/or professional vision?
What would you like to contribute to the world?
What do you most want to achieve in the next three years?
What do you most want to achieve in the next six months?
How ready are you to go for it?
Making It Happen
Why have you said “yes” to this coaching engagement?
What are three immediate changes you can make to get you off to a good start in our coaching?
How can your Coach help you to be more effective in working toward your goals?
Here are ways coaching clients work with their Coach. Which of these appeal to you? Select as many as apply
- Brainstorming strategies together
- Support, encouragement, and validation
- Insight into who you are and your potential
- Painting a vision of what you can become or accomplish
- Exploring possibilities and building on past success
- Accountability; checking up on goals
- Suggesting or designing action steps that lead to greater effectiveness and joy
What approaches to change have you found less effective for you?
What responsibility do you have for ensuring that our relationship works well?
How will you know that your coaching experience has been effective?
Begin to create your agenda for the executive coaching sessions
What opportunities are you facing in the next few months?
Select one or two possible development areas that you would like to discuss with your coach
Can you identify behaviors associated with these areas that you would like to change?
What would you most like to learn from the coaching process?
Write out one developmental goal to begin discussions with your coach during your first session

Preparing for Coaching

Your Professional History

Contact Information

Your History

Your Role Models

Your Self Today

Your Potential

Making It Happen

Begin to create your agenda for the executive coaching sessions

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