How a professional life coach works

You receive two things in particular when you become coached by a professional life coach: Their dedicated time and unwavering loyalty.

Dedicated time

It's been proven that we all have an active attention span of 45 minutes. This means that we usually can't concentrate to listen for more than 45 minutes, before we need to take a break or even need to stop our activity. This is why most classes in school are set to 45-60 minutes and why most school days end fairly early. The same goes for professional conversations. In order to produce result in the form of enabling you to gain clarity, confidence and motivation to change or improve something in your life, to set goals and begin taking action to reach them, we as coaches need to be absolutely focused on you. Not only focused, but also attentive listeners without any bias or any of our own distractions. All this we set aside for your coaching session. In order to perform our job well, we therefore usually can't take on more than maximum 4 clients per day.

Unwavering loyalty

When you pay for these services yourself, the only person you need to answer to, is yourself and your coach. When someone else pays, such as your employer to enable smooth lay-offs or the government through a funded program, their interests and their desire to control and check your work, will always be something that can stand in the way for your choices and action-steps. A professional life coach wants you to be completely authentic and honest and do what is best for you, not what is best for your boss, partner or organization. Since we never lose anything regardless of which path you choose to follow, we can provide real-life based support and encouragement, as well as offer perspectives and challenge your limiting beliefs, without any repercussions by an employer. This is at best the preferred way. A professional life or career coach can of course still coach within an organization as long as all parties agree upon the objectives, but to ensure keeping your best at heart rather than your boss, it's better to pay on your own.

To begin to see results, a minimum of six sessions during a period of three months is recommended. At the same time, you shouldn't be coached more than six months or at most a year, to not become dependent on your coach for your decisionmaking, but rather learn how to make your own in a better way. If you'd like to try, send me an email to schedule an appointment and read more here.