This document discusses speed coaching and how coaching can help both individuals and organizations. It defines coaching as a process that facilitates growth, achievement, and accountability. For individuals, coaching can help attain goals, improve work-life balance, and foster personal development. For organizations, coaching keeps employees engaged, improves performance, and creates a more innovative culture. The document encourages readers to prepare for coaching by reflecting on habits to change and areas to improve in order to achieve their highest potential. It offers a free half-hour coaching session for those interested.

1. Speed Coaching
Lori Zimmer
Ginny Kannenberg
Momentum LLC

2. Agenda
• What is Coaching?
• How can it help you?
• Can coaching help a company?
• Are you ready for coaching?
• Let’s try it! Speed coaching!

3. What is Coaching?
• Coaching is a process that facilitates
movement.
• Coaching is about
growth, achievement, proactive effort, and
accountability to results.
• Coaching is focused and responsive, forward
thinking and supportive.
• Coaching allows you to bring out your best
abilities and use them to make positive
changes in your world of work or personal
life.

4. What is Coaching?
Standing on this foundation, the coach's
responsibility is to:
• Discover, clarify, and align with the client’s
desired goals
• Encourage client self-discovery
• Elicit client-generated solutions and
strategies
• Hold the client responsible and accountable.
• Provide support to enhance the
skills, resources, and creativity that the client
already has

5. Confidentiality
Coaching is a confidential process
between the coaching client and the
coach. All conversations within the
coaching environment are handled
confidentially except in the case of
client safety.

6. Coaching VS. Other Helping Approaches
• Therapy: diagnosing and emotional
healing focused on the past
• Teaching: disseminating information and
knowledge
• Consulting: directive, expert problem
solving
• Mentoring: role modeling and advising in
a specific arena to assist with individual
growth and development
• Coaching: facilitating excellence in others

7. You are trying to learn to ride a
bike:
• A Therapist would: try to diagnose the issue
that is preventing you from wanting to ride
the bike
• A Teacher would: teach you the history of
the bike and how to use it
• A Consultant would: tell you what bike to
buy, how the bike should work and what you
could use it for
• A Mentor would: show you how to ride the
bike
• A Coach would: run along beside you, help
you find confidence and hold you up as you
learn to ride!

8. A Professional Coach Is:
• Your Partner in achieving business and personal
growth
• Your Champion during a turnaround
• Your Trainer in communication and life skills
• Your Sounding Board when making choices
• Your Motivation when strong actions are called for
• Your Unconditional Support when you take a hit
• Your Mentor in personal development
• Your Co-designer when creating an extraordinary
project
• Your Beacon during stormy times
• Your Wake-up Call if you don’t hear your own voice
• Your Partner in helping you have all of what
matters most to you

9. A Great Coach Will:
• Listen openly with no judgment
• Build trust and respect
• Ask probing questions to dig for root causes and real issues
• Challenge your thinking
• Hold you accountable
• Be honest and frank
• Provide a different perspective
• Acknowledge and support
• Celebrate your successes
• Strategize and set goals
• Share ideas and approaches when needed
• Empower and energize
• Allow time for reflection
• Explore the possibilities
• Drive action
• Remain objective and unattached to the outcomes
• Maintain confidentiality

10. Coaching’s Impact to Personal Life
• Attainment of goals and objectives
• A more balanced work and personal
life
• A chance to pursue your unique
strengths
• Foster personal growth and
development
• Improvement in interpersonal
relationships
• Significant positive changes

11. Coaching’s Impact to Professional
Life
• Goal achievement
• Increased success with current
responsibilities
• Focus on forward movement within
your company
• Growth in understanding unique
strengths and how best to utilize
them
• Defined plan of action for continual
growth

12. Are you ready for coaching?
• Are you willing to learn?
• Are you wanting to grow?
• Will you allow yourself to change?

13. Could your team/organization
benefit from coaching?
“Organizational health: the ability of
your organization to
align, execute, and renew itself faster
than your competitors can.”
McKinsey Quarterly

14. Could your team/organization
benefit from coaching?
The key to strong organizational
health is engaged employees.
• Employees with skills, ability and
know-how to carry the
organization forward.
• Employees who are ready, willing
and able to make the changes
necessary to keep their
organization on top of it’s game.

15. Could your team/organization
benefit from coaching?
• Engaged employees drive better
products/services, continuous
improvement and innovation =
higher customer satisfaction =
healthy growth and a sound
future.

16. Could your team/organization
benefit from coaching?
• A coaching style leads to employee
engagement.
– Manager listens and uses employee
ideas.
– Empowers employees to create and
innovate for improvement.
– Enhances opportunity for employees
to achieve success in the workplace.

17. Coaching’s Impact to
Organizations
• Keeping employees aligned and engaged
in work
• Improving work quality and productivity
• Opening up communications for a more
informed and knowledgeable workforce
• Tapping into employee creativity and
innovation
• Improving performance and supporting
employee growth and development
• Creating more collaboration and
teamwork
• Developing a more energized and fun
work environment

18. Preparing your mind for coaching:
• What is the pebble in your shoe
that is keeping you from achieving
your highest potential?
• What habits, activities or limiting
thoughts do you need to eliminate
or modify in order to move toward
your goals?
• What is one thing you would like to
add to your life?

19. Preparing your mind for coaching:
• What are you spending time on
that is not adding value to your
life?
• What areas of your life are out of
balance?
• What unique gifts of yours are not
being developed?

20. Coaching Offer
• For anyone unable to receive
coaching today due to our time
constraints, we would like to offer
you a free ½ hour coaching call.
• If interested, fill out your question
form and leave us your contact
information. We will contact you
within the week.