 What
we do...
At The Inquiring Mind, LLC our highly qualified personnel
work with clients using an innovating and engaging methodology. Using
a wide range of modalities and learning environments, we work with our
corporate clients to balance and sometimes overhaul their corporate culture
bringing it in line with mission and goals of the company. We work with
individuals to bring into balance whatever goals are established by the
client.
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What
is a Coach?
A coach is a consultant, strategist, sounding board and motivator encompassed
in one! Coaches are highly trained to provide the tools and guidance to
help clients create their personal and business lives the way they really
ENVISION them. A coach will provide feedback, give suggestions and make
requests to assist clients in taking proactive steps toward accomplishing
all of their goals.
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What
is coaching?
Coaching is a partnering process that unlocks your potential so that
you can achieve what you want. It is an empowering process that bridges
the gap between where you are today and where you would like to be. You
benefit from improved performance and an enhanced quality of life. We
become your personal resource and we help you grow both personally and
professionally. Coaching is also a management term used to describe a
personalized leadership training and support program designed to challenge
an individual to explore and increase their leadership capacity. It is
meant to increase a leader's natural abilities and skills while bringing
attention to and providing support in areas needing enhancement. It can
be appropriate in times of organizational intervention and to address
performance challenges.
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What
is the focus of coaching?
 Whatever
you need it to be. Our coaching technique is about being the question,
not the answer, and moving you and/or your company’s future to whatever
place necessary to discover what is in store for your future. In the beginning
we assist business leaders in finding that common ground, the forever
used searched for word “balance” Today the balance between
one's business and personal life has become more and more skewed towards
a "work-work-work" mentality leaving less time for relaxation,
family, family, and the other things that keep your personal batteries
charged. A large part of our coaching is methods are about assisting you
in finding a work-life balance, producing faster results by holding you
accountable for getting what you say you want now, and helping you find
the answers to whatever is preventing you from moving forward. Coaching
is a relationship by choice with a highly skilled professional who works
with you as a personal partner.
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Why
is Coaching becoming so popular?
Individuals are active in life are seeking for ways to sharpen their
personal skills without taking a time consuming course or sitting through
a workshop that may have little to do with their situation. Many of these
individuals are also seeking to address the being issues of life; not
just the knowing and doing. High achievers are beginning to recognize
that the benefits of a personal life coach apply to everyone. Since most
coaching is done on a personalized basis, it is one of the most time-efficient,
cost-effective processes available today Coaching is also becoming recognized
as a professional discipline.
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How
is coaching different from other professions?
-
 Consultants
say: Let’s find a solution.
(Coaches help you follow through.)
- Motivators say: Here's the affirmation.
(Coaches show you it was already in you.)
- Trainers say: Let me show you how to do it.
(Coaches help you master the knowledge.)
- Mentors say: Let me show how to walk the line.
(Coaches show how to look outside the box)
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What's the difference between “Business or Professional
Coaching” and “Life Coaching”?
Business Coaching focuses on your business. Life Coaching is focused
on all of your life but the starting focus is your personal development.
A majority of our clients own a business and combines the two. The line
of distinction is often blurred. The more enhanced your personal development,
the higher your business potential.
Coaches believe that personal and business matters definitely influence
each other.
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How
is coaching differ from other help I may get?
Coaching will help you develop and implement life plans and skills and provide
the motivation and support you need on your way to achieving your goals. Coaching
is not therapy. Unlike your friends and significant others, professional life
coaches will always tell you the truth, KEEP you accountable at all TIMES and
work solely on YOUR goals and accomplishments.
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How
can a Coach help people whose lives are GREAT already?
Professionals, who are succeeding in their lives, may have obstacles
or are transitioning into a new career. Our Professional Life Coaches
have VERY large tool boxes, to assist in maintaining and enhancing excellence
in your life. It’s been proven they are a valuable resource to have
for those who are trying to restructure there life or their company. Coaches
have found that people who generally want more out of their lives usually
want to have a partner by their side with resources available to them
that they hadn’t even ventured to look at.
That’s where “The Inquiring Mind, LLC ”
steps in.
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How
do NLP and Coaching fit together?
NLP presuppositions, skills, and models serve the coach in many ways.
Several of the presuppositions of NLP are particularly useful in establishing
the coaching frame –
- Everyone already has the resources he
or she needs.
- The worth of an individual is constant, while
the behavior can change.
- The map is not the territory. We respond to
our personal maps of reality, not to any "objective" reality.
- It is better to have choices than not to have
choices.
- Behavioral flexibility is more useful than
having limited behavioral choices.
- Every behavior has a positive intent.
- There are no mistakes, only feedback.
These NLP presuppositions balance and used non-judgmentally allow the
coaching client to evaluate without being self-depreciating. By living
these presuppositions, experienced NLP practitioners naturally embody
the attitudes of great coaches - the client is capable.
Athletic coaches & NLP Life Coaches have experience exploring underlying
belief systems that either support or inhibit growth.
The NLP coach listens for familiar language patterns that indicate a
client's self-imposed limits, and he/she knows how to generate powerful
questions in response to those patterns. The NLP coach can introduce the
idea of multiple perspectives through skillful questioning. "What
might your future self suggest?" "Is this the critic? What does
the dreamer have to say?"
An understanding of NLP models enriches the abilities of the coach to
work with the client using outcome specific questions. Eliciting a well-formed
outcome helps clients define their vague dreams and set up evidence procedures.
In many cases, just specifying an outcome generates movement toward it.
Frequently, the most powerful questions in a coaching session come spontaneously
from the coach's intuition.
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Can
I pay for my staff to be coached and is this a good idea?
Most clients discover the coaching they receive pays for itself and that
having a coach actually helps the client have/earn/retain more money.
Everyone can benefit from being coached. Companies benefit from coaching
in a variety of areas ranging from personnel issues and employee performance
to strategic planning and new product/service development.
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What
does it cost to hire a coach?
Like many things this depends upon:
- The type of program that you want,
- The amount of customizing required,
- The length of the paradigm enhancement program
(workshop)
- The size of your group
- The location for the program.
Our fees are commensurate with the industry standards – our customer
service and customized programs well exceed industry standards. Please
contact “The Inquiring Mind, LLC ” at
info@inqmind.com or 1-866-IN1-MIND
and we would be pleased to discuss our fees and program with you.
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How
do you charge for your coaching services?
We require a retainer prior to services and bill against that retainer
based upon a fixed hourly rate. Alternatively, this is also customized
for each individual or entity engaging in our services.
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Our
Qualifications
We are certified to deliver a number of reputable assessments tools related
to personal interaction and conflict. Depending on your individual needs
we can recommend a variety of tools and methodologies.
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Additional
Information:
Stephanie Durham has worked successfully with a wide range of organizations,
from very small (2 people) to very large. So if you want to hold
an effective meeting, I can facilitate a meeting that ends with
results others support.
If you want to lead a powerful company, I can show you
how to stay in control.
If you want to communicate effectively, I can show you
how to guide conversations, avoid conflict, and win trust.
If you want to give presentations, I can show you how
to influence those in the board room for that large Marketing campaign.
If you want to get control of your life, or your business,
I can show you how to create a future and control the present.
Managers and Entrepreneurs use the information to develop
strong teamwork and relationships, and to create positive interpersonal
skills. Negotiations and problem solving sessions are enhanced to create
solution-oriented, win-win opportunities.
Sales Managers learn to build deep levels of understanding,
obtain valuable and effective methods for training in meeting the future
objections of the client. Build relationships through effective communication
skills and learning how to overcome objectives in selling.
Educators & Mentors discover new paradigms for inspiring
and engaging students, as well effective techniques in dealing with challenging
learning environments.
Business Professionals develop new skills that assist
them with better communication not only in the work place but in there
personal life, they have better rapport, are able to gain more insight
when it comes to assisting clients and associates in processes of growth
and change.
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