About Coaching2Grow

• Coaching2Grow offers everyone interested in coaching access to the support that is normally only available to those who can afford personal contact with a coach.
• Coaching is ideally conducted face to face.
• Coaching2Grow covers most of the issues dealt with in coaching.
• Some users will find most of their needs for coaching met here.
• Others might use it as an appetite-wetter for direct contact with a coach.
• Also, people have different learning styles. Some like to discuss issues with people. Others are more inclined to read and/or reflect on their own.
• People also differ in how much they like to reveal themselves to others.
• Coaching2Grow is an opportunity to explore what coaching is about to see if it might be useful to you.
• Take a look through Coaching2Grow and see how helpful it is to you. If it addresses all the questions you want to ask, fine. If not, Coaching2Grow will get you started and serve as a stepping stone toward working with a live coach.

Coaching2Grow provides coaching across 3 broad areas:

1. Significant career and life decisions - Vision section
2. Specific work skills - especially ''Develop how'' under Grow section.
3. Common problems executives encounter - see Adapt.

Questions are used extensively throughout Coaching2Grow to stimulate your thinking for all three areas, but practical tips are offered more often for the latter two. To help you make significant career and life decisions, a framework is offered to facilitate your own decision making rather than provide a lot of direction.

To get the most out of Coaching2Grow, explore topics of interest to you, do your own thinking and record how your views and feelings change as a result. 

Link up with a learning partner who can offer you feedback, a reality check and support in exchange for the same from you. If you want further coaching beyond Coaching2Grow, make contact with a personal mentor or executive coach who can provide coaching face to face, via email or the telephone.

Self development is not something we can do in our heads. The best learning occurs through trying new approaches to familiar situations in the real world. To get the most out of Coaching2Grow, therefore, use it only as a starting point for pilot projects where you experiment with new ways of doing things and then return to Coaching2Grow to reflect on what has changed for you.

Coaching2Grow was originally launched in early 2001 by Mitch McCrimmon, Ph.D. Self Renewal Group, then based in the UK, now in Toronto, Canada.

Why not visit our sister sites as well?

1. For recent articles that critically question conventional meanings of leadership: Lead2XL.
2. Our main site - a broad range of leadership and personal effectiveness topics: Leadersdirect.
3. Practical tips on making the most of your career and career transitions: Nextcareer.
   

Coaching2Grow founder,
Mitch McCrimmon, Ph.D.