Coaching helps people improve their life by defining and fulfilling their goals. Coaching makes people aware of their value and potential, and helps them to discover their strong and weak points, as well as the solutions for their problems.

Coaching includes highly effective techniques that help people solve their problems alone, define their visions, expand their horizons and overcome hesitations concerning their potentials.

It provides them with the tools to overcome their limits and achieve higher levels of performance.
Μarkos Perrakis PhD O. D. Coach

As a famous American coach says, coaching “helps players play better!” This “game” can be a job, a business move or a business plan, a personal relationship, a change in our private life etc.Coaching is based on the professional relationship between two persons, the coach and the coachee.

• The coachee is somebody who has the desire to acquire something, to change something on himself or to achieve some important goals.

The coach helps the coachee to find out what he wants, to set achievable goals and plan the next steps for their achievement. The coach “provokes” constantly the coachee to achieve his goals; he supports and “controls” him.

• The coach doesn’t impose anything nor presses the coachee to do anything (though he doesn’t allow him even for a moment to forget his goals or to deviate from them!).

Coaching is for everyone who has some problems and he is not sure about his next steps, but also for everyone who is satisfied with his work and his life in general, but feels the need for more inspiration, self-consciousness and “success”.Coaching helps us:

1. Understand what we really want and how we can achieve it.
2. To discover positive ways to face difficult situations.
3. To set priorities and concentrate on them.
4. To set goals and make a new start.
5. To feel more secure, optimistic and certain about our choices.

Who feels that his life has lost its meaning or interest. When his goals are not clear

• When he tries to achieve something but fails despite his strong will
• When he feels the pressure to achieve something for which he doesn’t feel competent enough.
• When his anxieties and fears prevent him from setting goals or making decisive steps for their achievement.

When he wants to get out of a difficult situation in his professional of private life and he hasn’t the required strength to take the right decisions for his future. When he wants to make changes or changes take place in his professional or private life and finds great difficulties in evaluating them in advance and in deciding whether this is what he needs. When he doesn’t know how to manage, to plan and implement them. (Fusions, Fires, HR management in his work environment)

• Expansion and business initiatives in general, organization, communication, additional responsibilities. Will he react properly? Will he make the best out of them?
• And for many other cases when he has the need of somebody to support him and urge him to take a positive direction.

Coaching helps us develop our talents and make use of our potentials. The ideal candidates are those who were recently promoted

– New managers, team leaders
– Directors, CEOs,
– Executives who face challenges against their development.
The coach takes care that the benefits of the employee are in accordance with the company’s strategy and vision. Skills such as effective communication, mobilization, use of feed-back remain forever property of the coachee.

Lack of clear visions and goals, a tough period, a dynamic development, the difficulty of evaluating priorities, non productive behaviours, the will for change, the conflict between values and confusion are good reasons for the using coaching.

Coaching is recommended for everyone who wants to improve himself in a conscious and effective way because:
It reveals him his best self as a right nutrition reveals a healthy way of life.
It makes him familiar with the changes in his environment
It strengthens his self-consciousness It improves the understanding between colleagues.
It makes sure that the team and the individuals set clear goals.
It makes us more flexible under stress conditions.
It increases the levels of creativity and self-fulfilling It makes people happier

Coaching has not to do with a specific hierarchy or a specific job. Whoever wants to develop himself, to get helped, to have a total benefit in his personal and professional work, chooses coaching and makes therefore an investment for himself.

Coach asks the client penetrative, even provocative questions, instead of offering him ready answers and advices. The coach leads the people to ask themselves the important questions in order to discover their strong and weak points. He helps them to set free their potentials and follow the solutions they choose. The coach helps an individual or a team to get aware of the current situation and proceed to the desired result. He inspires them by providing them with the tools to overcome their limits and achieve higher levels of performance and self-fulfilling. The coach has to be demanding, decisive and persistent. He helps the client to concretize his needs, to set priorities and high (but realistic) goals. He motivates him to take action in order to achieve them and he works by his side. The coach will help you to understand and enhance your role in fulfilling your success.  To understand your needs

• To see the alternatives you have
• To take decisions
• To set priorities in your life
• To set goals
• To create an action plan
• To stay focused on your goals and achieve them
• To find out how your personal features can influence your personal and professional activities and your ability to achieve your goals
• To find a work and life balance

The relationship between the coach and the client usually lasts from three months to two years

The first half an hour is gratis

Method

Phase One: Goal setting and definition Defining the aim of the consultation and registering the current situation. We are trying to define your expectations from coaching taking into account the difficulties you are currently facing and your desires for the future.

Phase Two: Development of acknowledgement and strategy application.(Tracking alternative solutions, possible predicaments and facing them. We create a base upon which you learn new techniques and ways of thinking that help you develop your competence.)

Phase Three: Micro coordination, additional support and termination Goal achievement with timetable. During this final stage we will see how well the changes function and if there is a need for additional modifications.