What's Coaching?

Coaching focuses on the bigger picture of what you want to create for your business and career. Marcella partners with you to create a fool-proof plan for moving forward and supports you in implementing your plan. We focus on developing you and your business to your highest potential. Marcella helps you to discover honest insights into where things aren’t working. She helps you bridge the gap between where you are and where you want to be. The result of coaching is that you will gain focus on your priorities, acquire a new perspective on how to achieve your goals, and take action with accountability.

How does Coaching work?

Expert coaches, like Marcella, use a systematic process of assessments and sharply focused questions to evoke self-understanding and productive thinking. The questions are intended to promote exploration and discovery, solve problems, gain information, and uncover what is missing or blocked.

First, Marcella helps you clarify your goals. If you are unclear on your goals, she has a process to help you figure it out.

Next, we uncover anything that is currently holding you back. By clearly identifying concerns and obstacles we can develop strategies to overcome them.

Then we break up your goal into smaller pieces. These are your keys to success and make it easier to achieve your long-term vision.

From there, we create a specific action plan with measurable objectives and milestones. Marcella keeps you accountable, focused and motivated to execute the plan.

What's the procedure for Coaching sessions?

Coaching is usually done on the phone with email support. Geography is, therefore, not a limitation and telephone coaching is very time-efficient. Usually two or three 45 minute- 1 hour coaching sessions are scheduled per month, depending on your needs. You will leave every session with a clear set of action items and progress is reviewed at the next session.

Can't I do this on my own?

In the athletic world, great players would not consider performing without a coach. They attribute their phenomenal success to their coaches' support and expertise. The same is becoming increasingly true in the business world as more and more companies hire executive coaches to enhance the leadership effectiveness of key managers and more professionals hire business and career coaches to help them achieve optimal performance.

The difference between people who are successful and those who aren’t is the execution of a good plan. Most people have good intentions. The key is taking consistent action and Marcella helps you do that. She uses a proven system of tools and skills to help you create a strategy for success and design and implement the specific plan and support system needed to achieve your goals. She can help you achieve what you want more quickly and with more ease, balance, and sense of purpose than most of us can on our own.

What's the difference between Coaching and Consulting?

In consulting, we come to the partnership as an expert, whether it be in change management, leadership development, HR strategy, or organizational design. We teach you skills, like better performance management or workforce planning. After careful discussion and analysis of what results you’re trying to achieve, we sometimes do the work for you. The focus of consulting is to get a project done that will enhance your business.

There is a good analogy, using bike riding, that illustrates the difference between a coach and a consultant:

	A coach will help you understand how and why you ride a bicycle, help you to determine what’s holding you back from riding properly, and jog along next to you as you ride.
	A consultant will explain why one bike is superior to another, teach you how to ride the bike, and, if necessary, ride the bike for you.

Which one is best for you is based on your needs, as well as your time constraints and deadlines.

Why should I work with Marcella instead of another coach/consultant?

Unlike many other coaches, Marcella has many years hands-on experience as a corporate executive in a variety of industries, as a key advisor on career issues, and as a small business owner. She brings that expertise to your coaching sessions and shares it with you. She doesn’t expect you to have all the answers. She’ll share with you what’s worked in her extensive experience dealing with all kinds of organizational and professional challenges.

In other words, she often works in hybrid mode as a coach-consultant. This means that she offers you the best of both professions: advice and expertise from a highly experienced business, leadership and career development expert; motivation and brainstorming when you’re stuck; insight, ideas and resources to build you, your business and your career to the highest level.

Contact Marcella now at 508-758-9938 or at marcella@coachbreakthrough.com to get started on the path to making your goals a reality.