Coaching is a partnership between you and your coach with the specific intent of fulfilling your personal and professional goals. Coaches provide: Focus and Accountability New perspectives to help you reach your goals A competitive edge Coaching is: Goal oriented Practical A coaching engagement can be as short as a single meeting or as long as nine months, depending on what you are trying to accomplish. For longer engagements, the initial meeting will be used for assessment and will be in person, at a location convenient for you. The assessment will incorporate your business and personal life, recreational interests, preferred learning patterns and other areas of interest. A program will be developed that will build your capacities and skills that are required to fulfill your goal(s). A coach and client will typically meet once a week, either in person or by phone. Additional outside work including reading, writing and other practices will be part of the program. Please account for an additional two to four hours of work per week.