STAN J TONOSKI,

 Entrepreneurial Coach

Making Business Better 

The Why, How and Who of Coaching?

My work within coaching is focused on developing stronger leaders, better decision makers, better people managers, and successful balanced individuals. I assist business owners, managers and executives to take the next big step in building their business and careers. I aid business clients and commission salespersons in overcoming the mental blocks that stand in the way of the really big success they can achieve and deserve.

Coaching is a powerful partnership for personal and professional development that improves performance and overall well-being. Professional coaching helps clarify your vision, establish a course of action and sustain momentum toward your goals. The coaching relationship provides a structure for progress, reflection and assessment, producing outcomes that align with values and priorities.

Our coaching model of co-active coaching provides an ongoing equal partnership designed to empower clients to produce fulfilling results in their personal and professional lives. We help clients improve their performance and enhance the quality of their lives.

We listen, observe and customize our approach to individual client needs. The client drives the Agenda.  We seek to elicit solutions and strategies from the client; we believe the client is naturally whole, creative and resourceful. It is our job is to provide support to enhance the skills, resources, and creativity that the client already has.

Coaching is designed to help people become the most important leader of all: a leader of themselves first. It is only when people can effectively manage, motivate, and lead themselves that they can know how to effectively manage, motivate, lead, and hope to inspire others.

Through the process of coaching, clients deepen their learning, improve their performance and enhance their quality of life. And since personal development leads business development, corporations are taking advantage of offering it to their executives, managers and employees to raise the bar for moving their company, as well as each individual personally, to the highest of levels.

How?

By starting with two fundamental premises. First, believing that people have their own answers and are capable of deciding what is best for them. This is a fundamental shift away from telling people what to do or how to do it. Coaching is about helping people figure out for themselves what will work.

The second premise is that if people can align everything they do in their work and their personal lives with their values, then they will be in a very powerful and fulfilling place. 

Individuals who engage in a coaching relationship can expect to experience fresh perspectives on personal challenges and opportunities, enhanced thinking and decision making skills, enhanced interpersonal effectiveness, and increased confidence in carrying out their chosen work and life roles. Consistent with a commitment to enhancing their personal effectiveness, they can also expect to see appreciable results in the areas of productivity, personal satisfaction with life and work, and the achievement of personally relevant goals. 

Why Would I Want a Coach?

There are many reasons that an individual or team might choose to work with a coach, including but not limited to the following:

• There is something at stake  and it is urgent, compelling or exciting.
• There is a gap in knowledge, skills, confidence, or resources.
• A big stretch is being asked or required.
• There is a desire to accelerate results.
• There is a need for a course correction in work or life.
• An individual has a style of relating that is ineffective.
• There is a lack of clarity.
• The individual is extremely successful, and success has started to become problematic.
• Work and life are out of balance,  creating unwanted consequences.
• One has not identified his or her core strengths and how best to leverage them.
• The individual desires work and life to be simpler, less complicated.
• There is a need and a desire to better organized and more self-managed.

Who Uses Executives Coaching? 

Executive Coaching is utilized most commonly in the following ways;

1) To  support the employee to regain or better their prior performance level.

2) To mentor individual staff members who have great potential as the future leaders.

3) To provide one-on-one training to implement new skills and strategies. This provides the best ROI on training and by far the best long term transference of new skills to the workplace than any other training method.

 4) To provide individual executives with a sounding board, just in time training, and a success support system. See the article on coaching from an executives point of view. 

5) To assist top performers achieve even higher levels of success thereby leading their co-workers, colleagues, and the company to better overall results. 

 The most critical tool for solving humanity's grand challenges is the committed passionate human mind. Peter Diamandis