Come Grow with Us

What is coaching? How can it change your professional experience, and your personal experience of the time you spend working?

Coaching is generally considered a method of achieving set goals. The coach, through dialogue, helps the client to correctly set a goal, to find the best way to achieve the goal and reveal hidden inner potential in a person. The coach does not say how to achieve success, but asks questions through which the client themselves finds the solution to their own tasks.

What coaching isn't: therapy, counseling or mentorship. Coaching is a partnership between coach and client. The coach helps the client to achieve their personal best and to produce the results they want in their personal and professional lives. Coaching ensures the client can give their best, learn and develop in the way they wish.

What's different about coaching with Organizations by Design? Our coaching is a shared experience between the coach and the client, rooted in the practice of Appreciative Inquiry. Together, we collaborate to build a design for the future, develop strategies, and construct supporting actions for success. Our relationship is one of discovery that solutions that identifies and enhances what works instead of focusing on barriers and pitfalls. This method optimizes individual, economic, and organizational performance. Most coaching models begin by analyzing a goal, then creating steps to achieve that goal without exploring if the client has the interest or skills. On the other hand, the appreciative coaching model is based on the premise of the client's strengths. That way, the client  is able to access the resources they need to respond creatively to their current or future life demands, not just to the situation immediately at hand. Our coaching is aimed at releasing resources for life.

Our practice begins and ends with an inherent assumption that the primary source of information about a client resides within them rather than in other people. We serve first as a witness to the reflections of our clients and serve second as a sounding board (or perhaps more accurately a mirror) that enables our clients to observe their own internal processes and grow.

Come grow with us.