Coaching

Commitments

AS YOUR COACH, I COMMIT TO:

• Listen intently, ask questions, share life experiences, and help you resolve the issues you identify.
  
• Believe in you completely. I will know that you can succeed in your goals and aspirations, especially when you are unable to.
• Stretch and challenge you, always from a supportive position of service.
  
• Be warm, laugh with, and travel with you as a partner in your success journey.
  
• Help you achieve all that you can be, as you stay true to your own best interests.
  
• Guide you through skill and communication-building exercises.
• Challenge you further and propel you faster than you would normally do so for yourself. When I challenge you to do something extra, you always have the option(s) to:
• Say, “no”
  
• Say, “yes”
  
• Offer an alternative suggestion

• Offer alternative points of view as I detect a shift in your voice or sense a fear that you have not yet recognized.
  
• Help you see what you want to see, but not force you to face things you are not ready to look at.
  
• Be ready for our scheduled meetings, ready to focus on you, without my circumstances clouding my mind.
• Maintain complete confidentiality for everything that passes between us.
  
• Stand within the Ethics and Standards under which I have been trained and qualified.
  

WHILE WORKING WITH ME YOU COMMIT TO:

• Be open to new challenges and prepared to stretch yourself to achieve them.
  
• Remain open and honest with me and, more importantly, yourself.
  
• Trust that you will never be judged on anything you share or say.
  
• Complete session preparation sheets, and follow through with any chosen action steps.
  
• Arrive on time for each session, limiting or removing all background and digital distractions.
  
• Be true to yourself, your principles, and your values.
  
• Be prepared to share a laugh or two and let me know if laughing is the last thing you feel like doing on that particular day.
  
• Immediately tell me if anything about our coaching relationship troubles you or is not working well.
  
• Care for yourself between coaching sessions. The bigger the challenge you undertake, the greater the degree of self-care that will be needed to support your wellness and energy. Self-management is a vital component of emotional intelligence.
  

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Deidre Heim Coaching Agreement