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Appreciative Coaching

We practice Appreciative Coaching. Appreciative Coaching is coaching with a significant difference: it focuses on what has and is working in the client's professional and personal lives. Problems are acknowledged, but only as tools for learning. Three key ingredients of Appreciative Coaching are:

Appreciative Inquiry: We start by assuming that there are parts of everyone's life that work and we discover what they are. Then, using powerful questions, we build on those things to help you to dream about what can be, and to design your path to get there.
Values: Core-values define who you are at your best. They are feelings that, when identified and given expression, create joy in the moment. Creativity, independence, trust and mastery are examples of values. There are hundreds of values and we each have our own, unique blend of them. One goal of the coaching relationship is to discover and to always honor your values.
Purpose: What is the impact you want to have on the world? What is the direction of your life? Answering these questions is essential as part of the coaching process.

When you know what works in your life, where you're headed and you're energized as you go there, your hard choices become easier, you know where and with whom you need to spend your time, and you know what to say, "yes" and "no" to. Life gets easier and it's more fun! It is wonderful to know what results matter in your life and to be getting them. That is the real success you can find with appreciative coaching.

For more information, please contact Kennedy & Company at:
206-783-6829 or info@ResultsThatMatter.com