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What Barbara's Audiences Say:

“Barbara has an effective way of helping you learn and study; she is very organized yet flexible. Her life/work experience was useful to learning the nature of (our) work; she was lively in her delivery and open to questions.”

“Barbara is easy-going and thorough-full of information. Her teaching style is great.”

Things You’ll Talk About During A Coaching Session

• How you are. What progress you’ve made toward your goals.
• What setbacks you encountered the past week and what to do about them. Are you asking the wrong question? Are you thinking in self-defeating ways?
• Creating a new vision. A new or revised strategy for your life or your business that could increase revenue, reduce costs, or take advantage of a new opportunity.
• The good news, wins, successes, and positive results you had the past week and how these affect you.
• What you’ve learned, how you’ve changed or grown, how you responded to opportunities or problems during the week.
• Getting out of an unproductive comfort zone by developing a new skill (management, marketing, leadership, communication) you’d like to master.
• Getting rid of time, energy, and money drainers and creating more time, energy, and money for yourself.
• What new goal or outcome you would like to set for yourself and why.
• The assignment, plan, or goal you want to accomplish by the next coaching session so that you complete more.
• Building your confidence and self-esteem, recovering something you lost along the way, and reducing downtime when obstacles occur.

• You and your coach will create a contract as to the type of coaching support you want.
• You and your coach meet regularly over the phone (in some cases in person) to brainstorm, strategize and evaluate results – Clarifying directions, defining responsibilities, and overcoming challenges along the way.
• Your coach evaluates your behavior during the first month to get baseline or benchmarking data.
• You and your coach use that baseline or benchmark information
  to determine . . .
• where you are now;
• what directions you want to go;
• what you want to accomplish; and
• how motivated you are to bring about change.
• Your coach will provide training or skill development for you in the form that best suits you (tapes, lectures, discussions, books, seminars, workshops, groups, videos, etc.)
• You will engage in role-play practice to assure that you have mastered the new techniques before you try them "out there".
• Your coach will ask empowering but tough questions that are seldom asked because, although they are often pivotal, they are also unpopular.
• You and your coach create customized strategies to attain your desired goal.
• You and your coach develop structure with built-in accountability systems to assure feedback on your performance."