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What is coaching all about?<\/b><\/h3>\n
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\"GinnyHave you ever wished you had someone to talk with who really had your best interests in mind? Someone who is both supportive and whom you could trust to hold you accountable? Someone who is enthusiastic about your potential and is able to see the vision you have for yourself and for your organization? Someone who understands what you are up against and has suggestions for you to find your way to solutions that work and that have staying power? Someone who, although they do not work for your organization, knows what the structure and the personal interactions are like and why they are challenging you? If these are some of the things you’ve been wishing \u00a0for, you can find them in a coach.<\/p>\n

Coaching is a growing business in the US because there is a need for people who are objective sounding boards without a personal agenda regarding your situation. Coaches are individuals with experience in your industry or with your issues who have found ways to develop productive solutions and who are willing to guide you to find your own solutions. Notice that the last part of that sentence said \u2018find your own solutions.\u2019 Coaches do not tell you what to do, they help you find the best-fit solution for your specific situation, one that you feel resonates for you.<\/p>\n

Coaches recognize that you have within you the answers that you seek, and also know that finding those answers can emerge from conversations, and applying the tools and techniques they provide. Once you\u2019ve decided on your solution, the coach helps you implement it with strategic methods and accountability checks.<\/p>\n

Coaches start with the premise that you are fine right where you are, and with encouragement and support you can achieve whatever you want to do in whatever part of your life you want to do it in.<\/p>\n

\"ChrysalisGinny\u2019s coaching focuses on leadership in two key areas: self-leadership and leading others. Before you can lead others you need self-understanding. To paraphrase Aristotle, you must \u2018know yourself.\u2019 Ginny employs an array of tools to assist you in this endeavor, from personality clarification, to improved emotional intelligence and resilience, to creativity and visioning exercises. She will support you in finding your connection with your authentic and essential self, and work with you to identify and appreciate your strengths and talents, as well as develop areas that you wish to expand.<\/p>\n

Your ability to lead others, whether that is as an owner of an organization or as a key employee in an organization, rests on a skill-set\u00a0 that includes effective communication, creating and sustaining a vision of the future, helping others develop and contribute an understanding of power and authority and its proper use, and knowing\u00a0 the dynamics of team interaction to name a few. At the heart of Ginny\u2019s leadership coaching is flexibility of style, an essential capacity to meet all situations in the most effective and efficient way.<\/p>\n

How does coaching work?<\/strong><\/h3>\n

There are a variety of ways that you can work with Ginny in developing your capacity both for self-leadership and for organizational leadership.<\/p>\n