Tom Colwell

 Executive / Corporate Coach

How do we change? 
How do we get from where
    we are to where we want to be? 
And where is it we really want to go
    in the first place?  

Coaching places you, your team, or your organization at the heart of these questions.  At some level, you know what you need to change.  You know where you want to get to.   Coaching first grants that authority to you, and then creates a vision of what that change will look like, works to discover – to uncover – exactly what it is you need to do to get there, and then supports and turns you loose to get it done.

Coaching is the catalyst and carrier of the change-process, but all change is chosen, directed and achieved by the client.  As I coach, I change no one.  But all of my clients – individuals, teams, whole organizations – change, all of my clients grow.  It’s a powerful set of disciplines, and it works.

No one comes to coaching hoping things will stay the same.  All come to create change, to somehow make things different.  We can create that change out of our past, out of our present - what I call the Ring of Circumstance - or out of our best future.  Coaching works actively with all three, but it is the future that provides the real engine for creating something new.  It is out of our best future that power comes, bringing to us the courage, the incentive to leave our past behind; creating the ability and willingness to reinterpret and reprioritize our present, to act differently; and then directing the experience of moving gracefully into that future we dare to claim, to make our own.  click here.

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Wednesday, January 7th 2009