Our Life and Executive Coaching Process
The Time for Life Coaching Process
The Time for Life Coaching Process
Starting the coaching relationship- When you first contract one of our coaches, we send you an intake package including a contract to be signed, a questionnaire relating to your goals, plans, and current situation, and assessments relating to values, personality traits, values. We created the questionnaires and assessments that we send specifically to gain information that will help our coaching be most effective. It enables us to gain insight about your profession, personality, view of personal and professional life, ways of handling challenges, and more.
Before each coaching session- You send us a weekly update form prior to each scheduled coaching session. The update form focuses on accomplishments done in the previous week, challenges you are currently facing, and what you want to address during your upcoming session.
During the coaching sessions- We have one on one telephone sessions during which you and I are both entirely present and focused on you. We talk with you about what you want to achieve, listen to your answers, and ask questions specifically structured for clarifying your personal and professional life vision, address and overcome limiting thoughts, behaviors, and patterns, identify incongruities in your decisions and actions, hold you accountable, and we design individualized plans of action including timelines and specifics.
As part of holding you accountable, we will discuss what you will do during the following week, when you will do it by, and how you and I will know that you were successful at achieving your goal(s).
After each coaching session- You will receive an email confirming the tasks we agreed you would complete, the date in which you indicated you would complete it, and the method in which we would both know you were successful at accomplishing your goal for the week. Our coaches also send you assessments, surveys, worksheets, or questionnaires if and when they are applicable and related to your goal(s) and the topic discussed during the coaching session.
During the coaching relationship- Your coach will consistently support, motivate, empower, and challenge you. You will also be pushed beyond your comfort zone, challenged, and will be held accountable. We will work together and seek to identify self limiting thoughts and behavior patterns keeping you from moving closer to your goal(s) and replace them with new ones that are congruent with what you aspire to accomplish. We will also have specific expectations of you as you can have the same of us. See our expectations list attached.
Duration, Changes, and Ending of coaching relationship- In general, the minimum amount of time for which our coaching clients sign up is 3 months. We request this commitment of time for both your and our benefit. It shows us that they are truly committed to creating change in your life. At the same time, it gives you an average amount of time to experience changes and witness growth in yourself and your profession.
Coaching is about moving you further in life and overcoming the obstacles that have limited your growth and success so far. A large part of coaching is about helping you stop old habits and create new ones that are more compatible and supportive of your goals. These things do not happen over night and you should be completely aware of that.
According to the European Journal of Social Psychology citing to a study done in 2009 by Phillippa Lally and colleagues from University College London on creating new habits, it takes a person an average of 66 days to completely change a habit and make the new action a completely automatic habit. According to the results, by the 66th day, the new action has become as much of a habit as it was ever going to become. Even more interesting is the fact that there was a very large variation in how long the habits took to form. The number of days required were anywhere from 18 up to 254 days. The amount of days until the activity became a habit depended on the difficulty of the new activity and whether the person was ‘habit-resistant.’ Based on the results of this study, the much-repeated 21 days to form a habit theory is a considerable underestimation unless your only goal in life is a simple one like drinking a set amount of glasses of water per day.
This is why we are clear about our time commitment policy and expectations from the start.
Whenever you feel you have achieved the goal(s) or change(s) you set out to accomplish, you have the option to terminate the one on one coaching sessions, decrease your frequency of coaching sessions, join one of our group coaching programs (if space available), or keep in touch with us and let us know of your progress. You are always free to re-start coaching sessions again or sign up for individual coaching sessions on a need or project basis at any time.
Watch this video to learn more about our 8 point coaching process.
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 | I'm really looking forward to working with you to reach new heights of success and balance in your personal and professional life! Sonia Gallagher, JD Executive Life Coach PS. If you are ready to be challenged, to steer your life in a new direction, and to achieve the goals you desire, I invite you to request a Free Success Reboot Coaching Session and Experience Coaching and How It Can Benefit You First-hand! |
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