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What is Coaching?
Professional coaches provide an ongoing partnership designed to help clients produce fulfilling results in their personal and professional lives. Coaches help people improve their performance and enhance the quality of their lives.
Coaches are trained to listen, to observe and to customize their approach to individual client needs. They seek to elicit solutions and strategies from the client; they believe the client is naturally creative and resourceful. The coach's job is to provide support to enhance the skills, resources, and creativity that the client already has. While the coach provides feedback and an objective perspective, the client is responsible for taking the steps to produce the results he or she desires.
Coaching is an interactive process that helps individuals and organizations to develop more rapidly and produce more satisfying results. Coaches work with clients in all areas including business, career, finances, health and relationships. As a result of coaching, clients set better goals, take more action, make better decisions, and more fully use their natural strengths.
© International Coach Federation
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“The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.” - Flora Whittemore, author
Coaching for Your Personal & Professional Life
Laura's coaching gets clients off auto pilot and puts their hands firmly on the wheel, so they begin to steer their own path with a high level of clarity and intention. Laura began her career as an anthropologist, driven by her fascination with how people make sense of their world, a passion that still finds expression as it has moved from the macro/cultural level to the micro/individual level in coaching. And Laura’s familiarity with the study of complex culture systems continues to provide valuable context in her work in organizations. Laura helps coaching clients to fully utilize their natural resources as a foundation for courageous new choices leading to personally fulfilling results. What's it like to work with Laura as a coach? Scroll down for some client comments.
Transition Coaching
Are you facing a life transition, and perhaps feeling like a lot of doors are closing for you? My coaching services open doors to new possibilities, so you can make the best of the worst of times and design a future you’ll love. I help clients move from confusion to clarity, from fear to empowerment, and from “survive” to “thrive”.
Leadership Coaching
Laura coaches leaders to harness their natural resources, engage others, produce outstanding results, and leave a meaningful legacy. Whether addressing issues, or going from good to great, Laura helps people to get off auto-pilot and embrace their full potential as authentic leaders.
Mentor Coaching for Coach Development & Certification
Laura is a faculty member for the ICF-Accredited Coach Training Program offered by Adler School of Coaching (www.adlerlearningusa.com), one of the most respected coaching certification programs in the world. In addition to training coaches, Laura provides mentor-coaching to new coaches, supporting them in honing their coaching skills, developing coaching presence and confidence, and in building their business.
Team Coaching
Are you responsible for a team? What kind of “dance” is that team doing? Is everyone executing their roles in a well-choreographed routine that’s a beauty to behold? Or do team members seem to be listening to different music, keeping different rhythms, and even bumping into one another? With Team Coaching, I can help your team to move in synchronized step in the same direction, for enhanced performance and morale.
Creating a Post-Divorce Family Where Your Children Can Thrive
Is there a gap between that tidy Parenting Plan that the judge signed, and the often “messy” reality of co-parenting after divorce? What would it be like to give your children the greatest gift you have to give – a family that’s mutually respectful, has clear shared values, and that functions as a cohesive and supportive whole for the good of all (especially the children)? I work with post-divorce families (parents, step-parents, extended family, significant others, everyone sharing parenting responsibilities), using a combination of Team Coaching and ParentCoaching techniques, to build a family environment where your children, and you, can thrive.
ParentCoaching for Better Parent/Teen Relationships
At your wits end with your teen’s behavior? What if you could find a better way of being in relationship that will elicit the best from BOTH of you? ParentCoaching can help you create the win/win, mutually respectful Parent/Teen relationship you both desire.
Laura Atwood is a member of the International Coach Federation (ICF), holds the ICF credential of Professional Certified Coach (PCC), and adheres to the ICF's Ethical Guidelines.
What's it like to be Coached by Laura?
Here's what a few clients have said:
"The coaching experience with Laura has been terrific. Her style is affirmative but direct. She is great at listening and clarifying both the spoken and unspoken content. She has been very helpful in assisting me to set and then monitor realistic goals. Her executive knowledge is robust and her experience is very broad. I found her advice concerning sensitive situations very meaningful. I was able to use the information from our sessions to broaden not only my skill set but that of my leadership team. I have been in leadership/executive positions for many years, including 20 years in the Naval Reserves. I have been exposed to numerous coaches during my career. It is without hesitation that I would recommend Laura Atwood."
Debbie Pendergast, MSN, RN, Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellow
Chair- Division of Nursing Services (major healthcare organization)
“Laura is an amazing coach and motivator. Laura's coaching not only moved me from a place of judging to learning, it also allowed me to create and realize success in my business and personal life. Thank you Laura”
E. Lynn Lanoue
“I contracted Ms. Laura Atwood as a mentor coach during a major transition in my life. Her direct but gentle style was a perfect fit. Laura listened at a level that initiated very powerful, meaningful questions that were key to my movement. Her delightful disposition also brought humor and laughter adding levity to the sessions. The entire process was a very rewarding experience. Laura is an insightful coach that I recommend for anyone looking to take a new step in life.”
Dennece McKelvy
Business and Career Coach, Intuitive Directions, LLC
“As a recent newcomer to ‘being coached’, I’ve been energized by working with Laura on both a work and personal level: gaining a broader perspective, sharpened insights and discovering the power of reflection – then sitting with the ‘tension’ of having to do something with it – and doing it. I view my life as a canvas of art – a work continually in progress. Laura has collaborated with the painter by offering a light handed and creative touch to add the finer details bringing clarity, colour and vibrancy to who I am. The painting continues…”
Suzanne Hill Brooks
Management Development Director
“I never will know how to thank you for all you have helped me achieve. You have helped me believe that I am someone now and that I can do anything I set my mind to. If other people could have looked into my heart and my mind, I know that they could not have believed I could be turned around. I know I was an extremely hard client. I admire you so much to have been able to help someone as confused and lost as I was and felt hopeless in both my life and business issues. Thank you Laura with all of my heart for getting me out and doing AND for not giving up on me. Every time we spoke I had more and more hope. You amaze me.”
S.E.
Small Business Owner
“My work with Laura has been personally and professionally rewarding and beneficial. She is masterful in her ability to encourage and support me in my continuing growth and development as a professional coach, and is also able to help me discover ways to better navigate the journey of life. I can enthusiastically recommend Laura as a professional coach for anyone who is interested in conversations characterized by caring, commitment and fun!”
Sally Starbuck Stamp
Coach and Consultant
“When I contacted Laura I was at a point in my life that I felt was a very black hole. I could not see my way out nor did I know how! During and after my sessions with Laura, I began to feel like a person again!!!! She helped me to see within myself that I was a very important individual to myself!!!!!!!!! Laura was always ready to listen, then helped me get at what was happening, and shared really valid observations to help me find the solution. I would recommend Laura for any issue that any person may have, no matter how big or small it may seem to you!”
F.S.
Small Business Owner
“Things are going really well with my daughter. When I spoke to her about the conversation we had had and the idea of a partnership she said 'I really like your coach'. It feels like we're working together and really enjoying each other in the process, which is much truer to our relationship than punishment. Thank-you very much!”
E.K.
ParentCoaching Client
"As my coach Laura was insightful, persistent, challenging, and a pillar of support as I searched, reflected, clarified, and crafted my path, reassured that I had a partner in Laura. I continue to be amazed at how seemingly simple conversations can cause so much impact and break-throughs in my career and personal life."
Pauline Tang, MBA, ATC
Leading Across Cultures, LLC
"It has been a great pleasure to have Laura as my guide in this learning journey. She has led me along in a gentle and non directive way, always keeping me and my issues at the core of our discussions. She is very present in our sessions and drives our conversation through soft but powerful questioning, offering pointed observations as well sharing her own experience when appropriate. I feel I have grown and developed as a person as well as a professional from these conversations, but the most significant learning I have had is from observing and internalizing the coaching behavior that Laura has been modeling. Shaping my own coaching style based on what Laura has exposed me to has increased the value I bring to my clients.”
Johs Overaa
Executive with a large global telecom provider, Paris, France
“Working with Laura Atwood has been the most effective personal and business related coaching sessions that I have ever had. Time spent talking with Laura has motivated me to have the confidence to take the first steps in building my coaching and leadership business.”
Mario Langoni MS PHR
Corporate Education Specialist, Scottsdale Healthcare Medical Centers
"Laura Atwood is an extremely effective coach. She has the ability to pass her knowledge on as a trainer as well as a demonstrator of high level coaching techniques. I went to my first Adler class which Laura instructed with over 20 years of coaching experience. I did not expect to learn a lot more than I already knew. I was totally wrong!! My experience with Adler and with Laura as an instructor was one of the best educational experiences I've ever had. I would highly recommend Laura Atwood to anyone who wants to excel as a Coach.
Top Qualities: Great Results, Expert, High Integrity"
Gayla Hodges
Owner, Change Agents, Inc.
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