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A fascinating development I have observed over the past year within the Napier Family Centre’s Counselling service is the coaching and mentoring roles that have been established over recent times.

 

Everybody has problems. Sometimes this is what life is about, – challenging and stimulating to some, to others, not so. Even the best-fit minds, regardless of age, are sometimes overwhelmed with the problems of today and tomorrow, and with good ideas, or life goals or projects that need sounding out.

 

Behavioral–based coaching will help. It is the behavioral–based coaching method the Napier Family Centre has adopted to permanently change the behaviour of clients to successfully make the transition to what ever they have wished to achieve in life.

 

Life skills coaching began as an educational service for underprivileged adults in the United States. Interestingly, there are now also group-coaching programmes in the United States designed to prepare disadvantaged individuals for the workforce.

 

In addition there is a growing interest from life coaches to work with adolescents and young people to help them prepare them for life and work challenges. The Napier Family Centre counselling team is already doing this work.

 

Coaching is an emerging profession that synthesizes the best aspects of business, leadership, psychology, communications, organisation development, counselling, sports psychology, and philosophy.

 

Doing translates into impacting on your business or your life or both. This impact can be quantified and maximised.

 

Essentially a mentor is a confidant and a guide separate from the firm or family’s existing framework. A mentoring program is extremely powerful because it is based solely on a relationship of trust, interest and caring. It is not organizationally driven it is relationship driven.

 

It helps the individual clarify objectives and goals; aligns values, goals and actions; keeps individuals accountable; offers support; challenges; keeps the individual focused; reinforces changed behaviour; is the best of many disciplines. It is based on validated techniques to change behaviour.

 

Confidentiality; reliability; specialty knowledge of behaviour change; challenge, support, honest and direct feed back; objectivity; commitment to you your agenda and growth.

 

At the Napier Family Centre we have worked with individuals of all ages and at all stages of life, school, executives, business owners, beneficiaries, all having the one thing in common; the ‘feeling’ there’s a better way or just needing the guidance to act upon dreams.

 

To find out more about coaching and mentoring for you phone 835 9458.