Coaching Guidelines &

Pre-Coaching Questionnaire

Before we begin our coaching sessions, I invite you to look over the Coaching Guidelines and Pre-Coaching Questionnaire below. The questionnaire is designed to give me an insight into your life and what you might need from coaching. Each question is an invitation to share but please only share what you are comfortable with and leave any questions blank that you wish to.

Coaching Guidelines

The coaching offered in connection with this contract is designed to provide you with 9 hours of coaching. You will receive 6 sessions. The duration of each session will be 1.5 hours.

Within this coaching framework, the aim is to provide you with a safe environment to explore challenges and opportunities for change and to help you to realise your full potential.

The sessions are designed to:

be informal and open
offer you a totally confidential environment in which you feel comfortable enough to use your coach as a sounding-board for your thoughts
provide you with guidance in exploring the areas of focus which you choose to address during the coaching programme

The objectives of the coaching sessions are:

to facilitate and support your development
to allow open, honest and confidential exploration of the issues
to encourage and support the implementation of personal development goals

I will work with you using a combination of approaches (also see my Coach’s undertakings below) including:

identifying the reality of where you are now as well helping you to define your values and goals
exploring all options open to you and then helping you decide on your way forward, working towards consciously set objectives
helping you to understand, clarify and master the behaviours and emotions which will help you towards greater achievement and management success
supporting you in overcoming any challenges and embedding any behavioural changes which you desire

As Coach, I undertake to:

commit totally to supporting you during coaching sessions in moving towards achieving your goals

respond to your needs and agenda and NOT to impose an agenda on you
actively listen and help you explore your ideas without imposing my own

ask questions to get you to explore issues more deeply
support but also challenge you
relate to you with respect, dignity, integrity and compassion
manage the coaching assignment in a professional manner
keep everything you may say and write fully confidential, unless otherwise specifically agreed by you in advance or required by law and not to intrude into areas you wish to keep private until invited to do so

help you work things out for yourself and avoid giving you instructions on how to act
help you establish what help you want/need and how you might access it
avoid jumping to conclusions or being judgmental
help you explore options and the advantages/disadvantages of different courses of action
encourage you to reflect on specific experiences in order to learn from them
encourage you to set learning objectives
help you identify, plan and prioritise how to meet your development needs

provide you with constructive feedback as and when appropriate
work in accordance Coaching Code of Ethics and Good Practice
to discuss any ongoing coaching requirements beyond the contracted hours

You as the Coachee undertake to:

take personal responsibility for your emotions and behaviours resulting from the coaching process
take personal responsibility for the choices and decisions you make as a result of the coaching process
be honest and open and committed to the coaching process
keep all appointments unless the coach is advised with at least 48 hours notice.
agree to respond in writing to any request from your coach that supports the process
provide your coach with your agreed areas of focus be fully enthusiastic, committed and engaged throughout the coaching sessions
commit to raising the matter(s) with me if , at any time, you feel that my behaviour or actions are unhelpful/ inappropriate

We should both agree to :

respect each other’s time and other responsibilities and ensure that we do not impose beyond what is reasonable. In particular, we should commit to the agreed time for each coaching session and engage in any reasonable amount of e-mail or telephone contact in between sessions
aim to be open and truthful with one another about the coaching relationship itself
share responsibility for the smooth ‘winding down’ of the relationship when its purpose has been achieved and avoid creating dependency

Pre-Coaching Questionnaire

Please remember, these questions are an invitation to share but please only share what you are comfortable with and leave any blank that you wish to.

Name

First Name

Last Name

Phone

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Address

Address 1

Address 2

City

State/Province

Zip/Postal Code

Country

What do you want to make sure you get from the coaching relationship?

How do you want me to be as your coach?

In what way will this make a difference to you?

Briefly outline your life journey to date.

What / who have been the greatest influences in your life?

What are you most proud of having accomplished so far in your life personally?

What are you most proud of having accomplished so far in your life professionally?

What do you know about yourself from this?

How would you describe your life today?

What are your interests?

What activities have meaning and heart for you?

How would you describe yourself?

How do you think others see you?

List three of your gifts or talents. Do you regularly use these and how?

What motivates you?

What discourages you or takes away your motivation?

What do you believe in?

What do you do when you are really up against it?

What have you learned from a perceived failure, crisis or defining negative event?

What values do you have? (What really matters to you, what must be present in your life?)

What has to happen in your lifetime so that you will consider your life to have been satisfying and well lived, a life of few or no regrets?

How do you want to be remembered?

What are your aspirations / hopes & dreams?

What’s missing in your life?

If you could change one thing in your life what would this be?

Ideally, what would your life look like in 5 years time?

Briefly outline your career history to date

What are the 5 biggest challenges in your job today?

What are your strengths in consideration of your current role?

What are your areas for development in consideration of your current role?

How would you describe yourself at work as a leader?

How would you describe yourself at work as a team member?

How do you think your colleagues see you at work?

What are your key job goals?

How do your job goals support your personal goals?

How would you describe the balance between your life and work?

What have been your greatest achievements during your working life?

What failures or disappointments have you experienced during your working life?

What motivates you at work?

What discourages you or takes away your motivation at work?

What values do you look for and hold in your working environment? (What really matters to you, what must be present in your working life?)

How fulfilled are you within your current role?

If you could change one thing about your working life what would it be?

Professionally where would you like to be in 5 years time?

Reflecting on factors within your life at work and home, identify areas that you would like as your main focus during these coaching sessions. For each focus define what a successful outcome will look like.