Coaching |
Professional coaching is being applied in business and professions to aid individuals in becoming more effective in their work roles.
The premise is that people need more than insight or strategies to change their behaviors: they don’t always act on insights or follow through on strategies.
Our approach is termed integral coaching. An integral coach focuses on the whole individual, across a spectrum of experience:
• the social quadrant: work relationships and personal relationships
• the behavior quadrant: the body, health and vitality
• the self knowledge quadrant: one’s reflective life
• the environmental quadrant: technology and tools
A coach will tailor custom programs to increase an individual’s awareness and engage new ways of responding. In this way, new behaviors become integrated into stable practices, and the person being coached becomes independently self-correcting.
Such long term change can have ripple effects across life: people become more fulfilled in their work relationships, and more effective in their professional responsibilities; and their own clients and staff are more enthusiastic about working with them.
According to a study done by the Manchester Group, when executives were asked about their coaching experience, they reported:
| • improved relationships | 77% |
| • improved teamwork | 67% |
| • improved job satisfaction | 61% |
| • improved productivity | 53% |
| • improved quality of work | 48% |
"For more than a year Andrea was a personal coach to our Principals Group. Her approach was specialized to each personality, and she helped each of us focus on strengths and challenges. Our relationships have been enhanced by this process.
Andrea has a unique ability to disarm one’s fears and provide a path to embrace self-exploration. From working with her I have gained valuable knowledge, self-awareness, and helpful tools. I am forever enlightened."
Gabrielle Bullock
Managing Director, Los Angeles
Perkins+Will
"Andrea’s approach to coaching tailored to the individual’s style and coaching needs has resonated with the leaders of our practice. She works effectively with the whole person to achieve a balance between the individual and the demands required by the job, and the results have been rewarding."
Lynn Filar
Principal
Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum
"Coaching sessions with Andrea have made me more aware of my communication, leadership style, and habits. She has helped me to make adjustments that have improved my effectiveness as a leader of the firm, and my enjoyment of that position has increased. I recommend this coaching for all senior level executives."
Paul Rodler, S.E.
Principal
Forell Elsesser Engineers, Inc.