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“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” (Stanford commencement speech, June 2005) | Looking Into Coaching?
If you're ready to get on with life.
Ready to take all those thoughts, make sense of them, and put them into action, you may benefit from coaching. The best way to know what coaching can do for you is to listen to the stories and testimonies of people who have seen results in their personal lives. For testimonials click Results page.
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Coffee With The Coaches
Hiring Life Coach Laurie Hardie was one of the best decisions I've made in the last 10 years. My friend who is a liscensed therapist, recommended Laurie to help me prepare myself for the upcoming empty nesting phase of life. Though I still have a few years to go, I wanted to be ready for it - ready to embrace it, in hopes of easing the inevitable lamenting! She quickly helped me work through my ideas and encouraged me to formulate a plan I was excited about. With confidence and inspiration, I quickly moved through my Action Steps to meet my goal. Because of that coaching experience, opportunities and adventure continue to come my way. Check out our website - you'll learn much more about me! coffeewiththecoaches.com
Lots of Great Reasons for Hiring a Coach!
"Got a nagging feeling that your life could be more fulfilling? Want to change direction but aren't sure how to do it? Here's how to jump start your new life today ... Hire a personal coach."
--Modern Maturity" Executive coaches are not for the meek. They're for people who value unambiguous feedback. All coaches have one thing in common, it's that they are ruthlessly results-oriented." --FAST COMPANY Magazine. There is no stigma attached to having a Life Coach. . . "'It's OK for a man to see a coach,' Martha Beck, a popular life coach who guests on The Oprah Winfrey Show and writes a column for O - The Oprah Magazine." "There are a lot of specialty niches," says Patrick Williams founder of the Institute For Life Coach Training. He states that the latest trend is life coaching for teens and continues staying, "We are training people to do family coaching, parent coaching, retirement coaching. . ." According to the International Personnel Management Association (2001), "coaching increases productivity 88%-400% whereas training increases productivity a mere 22%." Asked for a conservative estimate of the the monetary payoff from the coaching they got, these managers described an average return of more than $100,000, or about six times what the coaching had cost their companies. --FORTUNE MAGAZINE "Professional coaches provide an ongoing partnership designed to help clients produce fulfilling results in their personal and professional lives. Coaches help people improve their performances and enhance the quality of their lives." - International Coaching Federation website | "It is not OK for a man to see a therapist."
-USA Today website. "Executives and HR managers know coaching is the most potent tool for inducing lasting personal change." -- Ivy Business Journal "I never cease to be amazed at the power of the coaching process to draw out the skills or talent that was previously hidden within an individual, and which invariably finds a way to solve a problem previously thought unsolvable." --John Russell, Managing Director, Harley-Davidson Europe Ltd. "Once used to bolster troubled staffers, coaching now is part of the standard leadership development training for elite executives and talented up-and-comers at IBM, Motorola, J.P. Morgan, Chase, and Hewlett Packard. These companies are discreetly giving their best prospects what star athletes have long had: a trusted adviser to help reach their goals." -- CNN.com Bob Nardelli (CEO of Home Depot) believes that without a coach, people "will NEVER reach their maximum capabilities.""Between 25 percent and 40 percent of Fortune 500 companies use executive coaches." --Recent survey by The Hay Group, International "What's really driving the boom in coaching, is this: as we move from 30 miles an hour to 70 to 120 to 180......as we go from driving straight down the road to making right turns and left turns to abandoning cars and getting motorcycles...the whole game changes, and a lot of people are trying to keep up, learn how not to fall." --John Kotter, Professor of Leadership, Harvard Business School. "Who exactly seeks out a coach? Winners who want even more out of life." -- Chicago Tribune "Increasingly, nonprofit executives and managers are finding coaches a terrific sounding board and source of help in a demanding and complex job." -- Nonprofit World |
