Welcome to Empowering People
A Passage to Purpose
COACHING – EXECUTIVE & PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT – COACH TRAINING
Coaching
Simply an efficient tool for reducing attrition in your organization
Coaching Training
Integrating Coaching Skills into Your Leadership Roles
Group Coaching
An effective way to help your team reach their potential together
Do you want to…
- reach your goals faster?
- grow spiritually?
- keep up with speed of life?
- improve your relationships with your colleagues?
- make better decisions in your leadership role?
- better prepare for a upcoming transition in location or employment?
- find a balance between life and work?
Then here is something for you:
Group Coaching
Equip your team
Explore a new approach on how to increase effectiveness and productivity in your team or group.
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Coaching Training
Equip others
Learn how you can implement coaching skills into your leadership roles.
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Living in a cross-cultural environment is not easy. Life is busy and challenging. And we all know how difficult it is to find a fulfilling balance in life’s demands. Coaching can help you finding this balance. It can help reaching your goals in life faster. And it can help you reaching your full God-given potential in every aspect of your life.
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Coaching
A Passage to Purpose
What is Christian Coaching
Christian coaching is an ongoing conversation that empowers a person or team to fully live out God’s calling — in their life and profession. The goal of coaching is to develop a person or team who is able to more effectively reflect, correct, and generate new learning. It’s learning new ways to learn, listening to your heart and Holy Spirit, and taking action to reshape your life around that learning.
The coaching relationship is expected to produce insights, greater personal awareness, new or modified behaviors, actions, and ultimately results that satisfy the client. Much is expected of you: to evaluate, reason, imagine, decide, and implement.
Coaching is about You!
Coaching is about you — your goals, your learning, and your growth. Together you and your coach will listen to the Holy Spirit to hear His voice about you.
Coaching is about learning — rather than teaching. You are the expert on your life. Your coach uses coaching techniques such as active listening, open questions, encouragement, challenging a bit, and always remaining supportive. All to assist you in discovering insights and taking next steps.
Coaching is about action — your action. Each session you will determine 1-3 actions steps you will take before the next session. You may be surprised how quickly you progress toward your goals.
Coaching is about all of you — not just your work or ministry. We all know that changing old habits and thought patterns are difficult. Your coach recognizes these patterns and will support you as you change and grow.
It’s not mentoring. Mentors are experts in a particular field who seek to pass on their expertise to a person. Mentors provide knowledge, advice, guidance, correction, and encouragement to people who are newer and junior—by experience if not by position or age. They may use some coaching techniques, but mentors usually play the roles of advisor and teacher to guide and impart knowledge and wisdom.
It’s not therapy. Although many of the communication techniques are the same, like active listening, reflecting, use of questions, limited advice giving, etc… therapy focuses on the past to bring healing and unblock a person to move ahead. Coaching is future and action-oriented, for people who are basically clear of psychological and emotional issues.
It’s not training. In training, the trainer sets the agenda. Change conies from outside the participant, i.e. the trainer. In coaching, you set the agenda. Coaches use adult learning principles of self-discovery to motivate change from within you.
It’s not authoritarian. Did you have a tough sports coach that used to yell at you and make you do a million push-ups if you made a mistake? That’s not coaching. Your coach will push you beyond what you might think you can do, but will always be supportive. You are in control. The responsibility to decide and act is yours.
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Coaching Training
THE COACHING COURSE
Integrating Coaching Skills into Your Leadership Roles
Leadership requires increasingly effective expertise in the way we communicate with those we work with. Coaching skills are essential.
This 3 day workshop is for anyone who wishes to incorporate coaching skills into their existing roles.
Feedback from Participants
A very helpful and worthwhile workshop! (Participant from Germany)
I was sceptical. But this works perfectly in Asia! (Participant from Thailand)
Atmosphere was excellent! (Participant from the USA)
It is open to those who desire to coach, equip, encourage, and support others.
This training is based on the Leader-as-Coach Workshop which has a focus on those in cross-cultural roles and has been conducted around the world. The trainers are certified coaches (by Active Results/CRM) and/or the ICF (International Coach Federation).
- increased effectiveness
- better teamwork
- higher morale
- longer retention of people
- and greater impact in places we work and with the people
with whom we serve.
- Listening Actively
- Asking Empowering Questions
- Designing Actions
- Following Up
In addition, the program will cover topics such as:
- The Language of Transformational Leaders
- The COACH Model™
- Coaching Anywhere with Anyone
- How to Enable Personal Transformation
- Integrating Coaching Skills into Your Leadership Roles
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- Please get in contact with us for individual tailored coach trainings in your team or organization.
- 3-day, 1-day and 1/2-day courses are available.
We would love to welcome you at one of our courses!
Team Coaching
What would you like to see happen in your team?
- Improving performance
- Working effectively towards your vision
- Experiencing change as an opportunity
- Developing your team member’s potential
- Improving relationships
- Reducing conflict
Team coaching will help you reaching your goals!
When is team coaching appropriate?
- When new teams are forming
- When you want to improve effectiveness and performance of your team
- When new members or leaders join the team
Please contact us for further information!
Move forward
Things you can do in order to move forward in your journey as coach
Links
Links
International Coach Federation
A nonprofit organization formed by professionals who practice coaching.
GoCoaching on Group!deas
A place on the Intranet to share resources, ideas and questions. (Registration required.)
GoFAQ
Frequent Asked Questions
I’ve tried all kinds of things to develop my potential, but I’ve never had anything like this before. I’m just growing so much!
The reasons people might want to consider coaching are endless, and as unique as the person. Here are a few examples that motivate people to use a coach:
- reach your goals faster?
- grow spiritually?
- keep up with speed of life?
- improve your relationships with your colleagues?
- make better decisions in your leadership role?
- better prepare for a upcoming transition in location or employment?
- find a balance between life and work?
current opportunities and challenges. and set specific outcomes. Coaching sessions continue twice a month in person or over the telephone (or Skype), with each session lasting 60 minutes.
Together we will set the agenda for the session based on what you want to learn. The coach will listen, ask questions, encourage, challenge, expand, and support you. You will leave each session with homework - several action points for you to do before our next session.
Between coaching sessions, you will complete action steps that directly support your personalized coaching outcomes. The length of the coaching relationship varies, depending on your personal needs and preferences. The time frame is usually is 6 months.
Your coach will provide additional resources in the form of relevant articles, checklists, assessments, or models, to support your thinking and actions. Specifically, this is what your coach will do during coaching sessions:
- Listen. Coaches listen fully. You are the focus. Coaches listen to what you say, what you are trying to say, and what you are not saying. They also listen to the Holy Spirit and encourage you to do the same.
- Share. After you have fully communicated, coaches may share with you their ideas, comments, and views on your situation, dilemma, or opportunity.
- Encourage. Anyone who’s trying to accomplish something needs, yes, needs, an outside voice full of encouragement, compassion, and acknowledgement. Not a yes-type person, but someone who knows what it takes to achieve.
- Suggest. Coaches want a lot for you. They want you to have a life that fully expresses your God-given uniqueness and calling. Part of a coach’s job is to be at least three steps ahead of you, yet be with you.
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About
Who are we?
Matthias Holighaus
Matthias Holighaus is a certified coach (ACC) and coach trainer and has been living in Asia for nearly 15 years. At present he is involved in member
development, member care and leadership training for OMF International. His work takes him all over East Asia. He is a member of the International Coach Federation.
I just love to see cross cultural workers reaching their full God-given potential in every aspect of their life!
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