In preparation for the first coaching session, clients are asked to complete a comprehensive coaching questionnaire which contains a series of self-reflective questions including: Career/Coaching goals; challenges they are currently experiencing in the workplace and development areas to focus on.

This questionnaire is designed to get people thinking about what they want to create in their life and give the coach the opportunity to obtain some useful client history and understanding of the client’s future goals.

In the first 1.5 hour coaching session, the coach asks a series of clarifying questions about the information provided in the questionnaire to drill down and determine any patterns of behavior and belief structures that may limit the client’s success.

This conversation also involves defining the areas the client wants to focus on and partnering together to determine specific goals for the coaching relationship. Once the client agrees and commits to these goals they immediately start taking the actions necessary to bring these goals to fruition.

Every 2 weeks, the coach and client meet for a 45 min Coaching session. Prior to the session, the client provides the coach a written update with the actions he/she has taken between calls, the learning breakthroughs/successes experienced as a result of those actions and any challenges encountered. The client also provides the desired specific outcome for the upcoming session.

This information enables the coach to fully prepare before coming to the call, so that the session can be used as efficiently as possible. TMBC’s Coaching style is deliberately "freeform" allowing us to meet the unique needs of the client at any given time. Using situational challenges the client faces that week is the most powerful way to effect new approaches and strategies. Regardless of the content of any individual session, actions are determined for moving the client forward towards reaching his/her stated goals.

In the Coaching we focus on:

• Teamwork and collaboration – building powerful strengths –based teams and a healthy, collaborative work culture.

• Powerful communication and influencing skills – motivating others, using dialogue as a management tool, being able to persuade and negotiate more effectively.

• Personal power – having a strong sense of self-confidence and a deep knowing that we have powerful and unique strengths that we can leverage to make a greater impact.

• Conflict management – being able to work with difficult people and resolve differences to your satisfaction.

• Building bonds – improving our ability to connect with others and form strong relationships.

• Initiative – overcoming procrastination and taking action.

• Intentionality – thinking and acting “on purpose”, and in deliberate congruence with our values, strengths and who we are.

• Resilience – handling adversity and setbacks.

• Stress management – enhancing our ability to work under stress and pressure.

• Emotional self-control – keeping destructive emotions in check.

There are two ways in which TMBC evaluates the impact of the Strengths Coaching relationship:

Personal Ongoing Evaluation:
Coaching is an ongoing learning process in which a client is likely to experience many emotional and behavioral breakthroughs. Coach and client continually evaluate the results of the actions taken, change behaviors/strategies when necessary and anchor the learning experienced and identify how to apply what they have learned to impact other areas of their life.

Quality Assurance
At appropriate intervals of the Coaching relationship, clients will be asked to complete a comprehensive survey regarding their Coaching experience with TMBC. They will have the opportunity to provide both qualitative and quantitative feedback on their Strengths Coach and the results they have achieved as a result of the Coaching.

This feedback will be used to track client progress and provide feedback to the coach on how they can better support their client. Where appropriate, overall trends in the Coaching will be reported to the Organization

Unlike traditional Coaching models that focus on developing people’s weaknesses TMBC believes people’s “key areas of opportunity” are people’s strengths not their weaknesses. TMBC focuses on who people are and the strengths they bring rather than fixing their weaknesses. TMBC believes that all people have unique gifts that can be leveraged to benefit their organization. TMBC also works with leaders to help them shift their perspective so they are looking at how they can leverage their peoples’ strengths to create an inspired, motivated and engaged team.

TMBC Coaches bring a unique combination of corporate experience, extensive education,
and strengths focus:

• Seasoned professionals with over 10 years of corporate experience
• ICF certified Coaches/ and certified in TMBC Strengths Programs
• Minimum of 5 years Coaching experience
• Demonstrated measurable success with corporate clients

This combination gives TMBC Coaches the necessary perspective and experience to understand a wide variety of work-related and personal issues.

My coach has listened extremely effectively and has empowered me with her expertise, loving support, laser strategies and questions to make me a very confident, happy, enriched human being and professional.  I look forward to another great year of partnering with her on my life vision and dreams.

You have helped take our company from a little aspiring company to one of Sweden's best in our field.  On top of that you have helped our senior management team become vastly more successful as leaders, managers and, not least, individuals.  I can't say enough about the impact you’ve had.

At year end, I want to be sure that I thank my coach for another great year.  Her insights are incredible.  My whole understanding of how 'things" and "I" work has changed for the better

 

• My coach helped me engineer a job which compliments my strengths while contributing significant value to my partners, employees, customers and suppliers.

 

 

• I have 5 precious sessions left.  They have powered me to make an incredible shift in my being.  I feel like a novice, but I finally get it and understand the meaning of personal power.  She is a fantastic coach.  She is a star coach.

 

 

• Thanks for the incredible impact you have on the world – working with you has been tremendous.  My life will never be the same after everything I have learned about me.  Watch out world here I come.

 

 

• I finally get what my staff had been dealing with – jeez, thank you

 

 

• Thanks again for your “wisdom.”  My coaching with you is going so well – if it ended today it would be worth much more than twice what I have already paid.

 

 

• The rigor and discipline of my TMBC coach’s teaching transferred a learning to me I will take to my grave.  As far as retirement, I hope to work as long as I am able because my attitude is invigorated with passion about what I do for a living.