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What is a coach?
Coaches
offer an ongoing professional partnership designed to help clients
create rewarding outcomes in their personal and professional lives. Coaches assist clients to advance their performances and increase the quality of their lives.
Coaches
are qualified to listen, to observe, and to adapt their
methods to meet each client’s needs. They seek to bring out
resolutions and approaches from the client; they consider all
clients to be naturally inspired and capable. The coach's job is
to offer support to augment the abilities, resources, and
vision that the client already has.
What is coaching?
Coaching assists a client or group of clients by supporting the attainment of remarkable outcomes, based on goals set by the client or the group. Through the method of coaching, clients focus on the abilities and actions needed to effectively produce their individually significant outcomes. Coaching concentrates on where individuals are now and what they are willing to do to get where they want to be in the future.
What does the coaching process look like?
Coaching
typically begins with a personal interview (either face – to – face or
by teleconference call) to assess the client’s present opportunities
and challenges, define the extent of the partnership, identify priorities for achievement, and establish detailed preferred outcomes. Subsequent coaching sessions may be performed in person or over the telephone, with each session lasting a previously established length of time. Between planned coaching sessions, the client may be asked to complete specific actions that support the realization of one’s individually prioritized goals. The
coach may provide additional resources in the form of checklists and
assessments to support the client’s thinking and actions.
How long does a coach work with an individual?
The length
of a coaching professional partnership varies depending on the client’s or
group’s needs and preferences. Factors
that may impact the length of time include:
the types of goals, the ways clients
or groups like to work, the frequency of
coaching meetings, and financial
resources available to support coaching.
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 Kathleen McGraw, LCSW
& Associates, LLC
Kathleen McGraw is a trained professional coach and a graduate of Coach University (Coach U). She continues to enhance her knowledge and training through Coachville, The School of Coaching. She is a referral member of the International Coach Federation (ICF) and a founding member of the International Association of Coaching (IAC). Coach U, Coachville, ICF, and IAC were all created by Thomas Leonard, "The Father of Coaching."
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The following are brief explanations of the different types of coaching services that are available through us. For more in depth explanations, please contact us at (504) 836-3883 or info@McGrawandAssociates.com.
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Life coaching focuses on life planning, life vision, and life enhancement. It includes creating a happier, more fulfilling work, home, and family life.
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Personal coaching focuses on self – care, health, creativity, and organization. It includes building a solid personal foundation and having meaningful accomplishments.
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Relationship coaching focuses on strengthening relationships, such as a marriage. It includes relationships between parents and children, friends, and in business.
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Parenting coaching focuses on the need for parents to raise responsible, cooperative children who are prepared to meet the challenges of the teen years and beyond. It includes learning positive, discipline techniques and encouraging one’s children’s academic success.
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Children, teen, and college student coaching focuses on strengthening the youth against the risks they face in today's society, such as drugs and violence. It includes learning communication and negotiation skills, responsibility, and how to succeed academically.
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Kathleen McGraw, LCSW & Associates, LLC
Mariposa Institute for Families, Parenting, & ChildrenTM
Collaborative ADR Institute of LouisianaTM