Pat Hinton Walker, PhD,
CMC, PCC
Stepping Stones Coaching
5902 Edson Ln
North Bethesda, MD 20852
phintonwalker@comcast.net
TESTIMONY:
According to Group Coaching Client, L. Riley in Georgia:
"Dr. Hinton Walker is very skilled in setting professional boundaries of confidentiality and group behavior that facilitated discussion while maintaining a sense of safety and privacy. She has a gift for listening to what is said and what is unsaid. Even over the phone, her listening and interpretation skills were superb.
Lively discussions coupled with brief focused laser coaching sessions allowed each of the group members to benefit from thoughtful critique and to learn from each other on many different levels.
Dr Hinton Walker found a powerful way to create a workable vocabulary to discuss preferences and strength based self assessments by introducing the group to assessment by Archetypes and using the MBTI instrument. "
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Many Coaching
Clients Look in the 'Rear View' Mirror with a 'LESSONS LEARNED perspective. Our approach is to identify the 'jewels' or the 'legacy' of the past to bring forward into the vision for the FUTURE!!
When you are trying to determine the Next Step in your Career Transition, it is important to look down the road . . . but keep the VALUE of the experiences you have had in the past in your Rear View Mirror!
Specific Coaching Strategies for Stepping Stones Coaching:
How does coaching assist individuals with life/career transitions?
Coaching is ideally suited to assist individuals with life and career transitions . . . those that are planned and those that just "happen". Sometimes the unplanned career changes provide the most unique opportunity for pursuing a client's real passion or calling. For career transitions, clarifying the qualities or aspects of future employment in the context of one' s passion/calling (rather than focusing on the job)opens new doors and opportunities.
The first step is seeking clarity and awareness of the desires of the heart and how differing opportunities are matched with signature strengths, preferences and values. Then brainstorming for likely and even unlikely possibilities for expressing one’s passion/calling in new and meaningful ways. The key is to identify the next steps, the actions to be taken, and to move forward with the support of the coach. The role of the coach is to ask the powerful questions, help the client move their agenda forward towards the new directions. New awareness and sometimes taking short-term opportunities in context of longer-term passion/calling is the answer.
How do Entrepreneurs or Small Business Owners Use a Coach?
The coach creates a safe environment allowing the client to explore, brainstorm, and experiment with new ideas/strategies needed for new directions. Yet, there is sufficient structure and powerful questions related to the development of the important aspects of setting up a business to assist the client in being realistic amidst their vision. This allows the executive to use the coach to: How does the academic or business professional seeking a promotion (and/or tenure) use coaching?
Coaching is perfect for those interested in advancing careers and achieving the next step on the ladder. Determining how this goal fits into the larger picture of one's life and dreams is the first step. Then, designing the plan according to the corporation and/or academic institution's requirements is next. Sometimes, the most significant challenge to the individual is that they may be their own worst enemy or have not calculated the cost of time and energy required. Coaching assists the client in becoming aware of their own blocks or barriers inside, and overcoming these to accomplish preferred new role and goal. The coach provides support and assists the client in developing strategies to address procrastination, lack of focus and possible problems with believe in self. The client's preferred tomorrow - regardless of the career transition . . . begins with taking the next step!
How do Executives/Managers use a coach to reach higher targets and quotas. (This may require coaching the administrative or management team to assist them to grow, work together, and stay out of each other’s way to reach extraordinary goals). How do I use the opportunities for Group Coaching?
Coaching creates an environment where there is freedom from judgment and expectations that executive behave according to typical administrative or corporate mandates. In the coaching relationship it is safe to question, to appear vulnerable, to observe, to explore, experiment, to learn and change. Frequently, understanding one’s Emotional Intelligence knowledge and skills can be improved to allow the executive to use the coach:
Periodically Stepping Stones Coaching offers opportunities for former clients and new clients to participate in groups to achieve common goals or pursue similar ‘preferred tomorrows”. Generally, group coaching sessions are time limited and serve a purpose for the differing clients. Occasionally the sessions may be linked to content with a short time focused on content, then each individual will identify ways to apply or integrate the mutually agreed upon content and action steps into the goal or purpose of the group coaching experience. Groups generally range from 3 or 4 people with no more than 8 persons. One of the benefits of group coaching is that the individual benefits from the wisdom and experience of all group members, yet is still responsible for their own personal or professional growth. Examples of group coaching topics include:
- Emotional Intelligence EQ Coaching for Success for managers and administrators Preparation for Academic Promotion and/or Tenure Click Here for More Information on EQ
- Growing in the coaching experience for novice coaches
- Thinking of becoming an entrepreneur or starting a small business? Knowledge of your MBTI will help you in your decision making! Click Here for More Informaiton on MBTI
- Inegration of Informatics and Technology into Health Care Practice
Other topics that can be determined by an organization to facilitate culture change with new organizational directions
- Growing in the coaching experience for novice coaches
