WillCoach Coaching Offering
The WillCoach Coaching Offering is carefully designed to offer both individuals, teams, organizations, families, communities, and workgroups effective and flexible options to choose from in order to suit their unique circumstances.
Coaching is a powerful tool for the transformation of a collective and the development of individuals. For more on what coaching is, please visit the What is Coaching? page. The WillCoach Coaching Offering consists of:
Individual Coaching
Individual Coaching conversations are the most well-known ‘life-coaching’ approach that has taken the world by storm in the last 20 years. Few people are aware that there are thousands of different types of coaching and approaches to coaching. From health coaching, relationship coaching, life coaching, financial coaching, transition coaching to coaching for coaches, executives, leaders, parents, performance, and more. Then there are approaches such as Gestalt, Ontological, Integral, Systemic, Behavioural, Solutions Focused, Action Logic, and more. And don’t forget the thousands of different tools for assessment that may support each journey – like Bmaps (Structural Dynamics), LDPs (Action Logics), Neuroscience, Strength Finder, Enneagram, Personality assessments, skills assessments, and more.
In the end, none of this matters at all if the relationship between coach and client doesn’t allow both to focus on the person for the client and not the problem. I take a partnering approach for us to explore, together, what is going to serve your journey best. What sits behind the coaching journey doesn’t matter as much as the journey itself, but I will always be transparent about what we might explore, what the outcomes are, and, even what the process entails.
We may explore some tools in the process and will only do so if our work leads us to agree that specific types of feedback is valuable for you in this regard. I will only work within the capabilities for assessments and approaches that I am qualified to bring to our work together. Learn more about Individual Coaching.
Group Coaching
There are two approaches to group coaching. Both are rooted in the understanding that it is topic or outcomes-based, and that each participant is there to focus on their own journey, together.
A group is a collective of individuals who share in the time and space of the work they do, but tend to work on different outcomes, which are related, or not, to a theme, topic, focus, event, or deliverable. Typically, collaboration (which implies consensus, commitment, accountability, and shared results), if at all present, only serves individual outcomes. Learn more about Group Coaching.
Team Coaching
Team Coaching is a hot topic at the moment in the world. The cost of individual coaching for many organizations is too steep, and so, team coaching has become one of the main ways to support transformational processes towards high performance. If you’re thinking team-building days, off-sites, kumbaya sessions, and costly personality assessment, I’ve got a surprise for you. Research has shown that the vast majority of outcomes established in these forementioned approaches never get actioned. It also shows that most of these processes actually serve to further frustrate collective outcomes and client-centered results.
Team Coaching requires a systemic approach, which includes both relational and process focuses. Teams are a group of cross-skilled people brought together, to dedicate their collaborative focus on a shared, single outcome to serve clients, systems, or stakeholders. No wonder then, that Lean and Agile approaches in organizations rely heavily on Team Coaching as a staple for transformational outcomes. Read more about Team Coaching.
The GERMINATE™ Coaching Model
This is a model that I have created, based on who I believe myself to be as a coach, my orientation to the types and approaches to coaching I believe to be the most effective, and what is within my present capability to hold as a coach. The GERMINATE™ Coaching Model continues to evolve, as my practice evolves. Many coaches develop their own coaching model to support their coaching-way-of-being, ethical practice, personal development, and most of all, their clients.
This model is applied in Individual Coaching, Group, and Team Coaching contexts and is inherently rooted in a systemic and ontological approach. Learn more about the GERMINATE™ Coaching Model.
