L A Brown Coaching

Build From Strengths

We hold the perspective that everyone has passions, talents, skills, inspirations, and innate greatness, often wanting to be more fully expressed. We believe it is better to build from personal strengths, talents, and skills than to expend effort trying to improve weaknesses. We also believe everyone is a leader; everyone is in charge of making the decisions that lead their own lives. And, at times and in various roles, everyone leads others. Whether leading yourself or leading others, success begins once you become clear about what you want, then become committed to making it happen.

Here are some scenarios to consider in deciding if you are ready to be coached:

You are already a successful executive/professional and want your organization to stay on the leading edge? You want more support and an outside ear.
You feel like working hard only leads to more hard work.
You have procrastinated (maybe for years) about moving forward towards important goals.
You are living and working in a box that feels like it is closing in around you.
You want to improve how you communicate and connect better with others.
You want to increase emotional intelligence in how you experience the world.
You are ‘tolerating’ one or perhaps many circumstances in your life.
Life is too busy, disorganized and overwhelming; something(s) need to change.
You are dissatisfied with your work, employer, partner, or career.
You want to feel more alive in one or more areas of your life.
You are making significant life transitions such as changing jobs / careers, children leaving home, retirement, being single again.
You want to reduce the amount of conflict in your work or personal life.
You want to make changes and are struggling with how to get there or where to start.
You want to live more in the present than the past or future.

Create Greater Clarity

One trick for most of us is staying on top of what we feel, need, and want, given invariably changing circumstances in our lives. The change may be externally driven and involve other people or organizations. And sometimes, the change is simply inside ourselves. While values and beliefs are often tightly held, they can and do change with time. And, once we accomplish one goal or achievement, we often look for a new one. Each time we experience change, we must reassess what we are wanting to be, do, or have next!

Beyond that, we all have bigger and lifelong dreams, some that we may have already achieved and some that we have not achieved or even started on. Dreams can include learning something new or developing a talent, having a particular experience, accomplishing a particular achievement, having friends and relationships, holding a certain position or owning a business, having a particular level of financial wealth, and/or owning particular things.

Coaching helps you explore and clarify what you are really wanting and then how you can achieve it!

Make a Commitment to Yourself!

Coaching is a powerful means of unleashing tremendous personal, professional, and organizational effectiveness. We often think of it as an expressway for getting on, or back on, track with your life. We've all made tremendous things happen in our lives. Most of us get into ruts in the times between major life decisions and events, even if they were great decisions at the time. Some of us have lived in fear our entire lives of doing or being or having what would really make our hearts sing, or as Steve Jobs puts it, "put a dent in the universe".

Linda A. Brown, MBA, MEd

Complimentary Session

Worth a Watch: Video of Steve Jobs, "How to Live Before You Die", addressing graduates at Stanford.

"The Best Way to Forecast
the Future is to Invent it."
~ Steve Jobs (1955-2011)

Worth Knowing (and watching again and again): Video of Marshall Rosenberg, "The Basics of Nonviolent Communication".

"It's never what people do that make us angry; it's what we tell ourselves about what they did."
~ Marshall Rosenberg (1934-2015)