Coaching
What is coaching?
It's simple. A coach is a person who is on your team in your quest to live a full life. To find fulfillment, transformation or whatever you are looking for. A coach helps you pinpoint your values, envision who you want to become and then supports you along the way. A coach celebrates your successes, helps you feel the pain of your hunger for growth and always acknowledges your effort.  

The best way to understand coaching is to experience it. Interested? Poke around on this site and other coaching sites. Select coaches who are a match for you. Set up sample sessions with them. If you like what I have to offer, please let me try to win your business. 

The sample sessions are free. In the session you'll be coached on a topic of your choice. You will discover whether coaching is for you. The coaches will explain more about their coaching qualifications and examine how to create a powerful coaching relationship.

For a free sample session, just send me an email by clicking on "Contact" in the menu on every page or call 613 862-4459.

Want to read about the effectiveness of coaching. There are many types of coaching. And coaches use many terms to describe the type of coaching they do. Whole life coaching, executive coaching, productivity coaching are a few of the titles. Let's distinguish between personal coaching and business coaching.

Business coaching places the emphasis on improving results at work.

I'm honoured to have participated in an intimate way in the transformation of my clients.

Here is one example.

In the fall of 2004 the Manager of Corporate Health and Safety at a critical industry launched a coaching pilot project. I was fortunate to be hired to work with three employees, a manager and two employees, for a period of 12 weeks. They met for 30 minutes each week to discuss how to work more safely. The coaching started with individual face-to-face sessions. In time we found that all three individual sessions were dealing with similar issues so we decided to form a group of three and to meet face-to-face as a group for an hour, supplemented by an occasional individual session for the Manager. In all we held ten individual face to face session, nine group sessions and two individual sessions over the telephone.

The group identified 14 areas of concern under the banners of working relations, work processes and workplace safety. For each of these concerns we developed a workplan and came to each weekly meeting ready to report on progress made. “We found real issues and dealt with them” says one supervisor. For example, we clearly identified the safety roles of the manger, supervisors and employees. “I got a new idea of my role” said the supervisors of one operation.  We identified training needs and arranged training. We identified gaps in work order processes and revised them. The new manger, who funded the coaching says “it was a great way to become aware of safety concerns.

This success with coaching is supported by serious research.  When supervisors in a manufacturing plant received training in emotional intelligence, the essence of coaching, lost-time accidents were reduced by
50 %. Formal grievances were reduced from an average of 15 a year to three a year. The plant exceeded productivity goals by $250,000.  In another example of the power of coaching, thirty-one managers underwent a conventional managerial training program (goal setting, collaborative problem solving, practice, feedback, and supervisory involvement). It was Followed by 8 weeks of one-on-one coaching. Training alone increased productivity by 22.4%. However when training and coaching were combined productivity increased by 88%.

Results at Work

This program, based on coaching experience, focuses on what so many of my clients want: job satisfaction. It has three components: an extensive workbook, a training session and coaching.

Personal coaching

Coaching!!  Seeking change in your life at home, work and play . . .
The secret of personal coaching, and also business coaching is that they help us to think positively. As my client, I'll guide you to focus on the values you wish to live at home, at work and at play. Do you wish to be a more loving parent, a better communicator at work, a fitter person at play? What else?  Coaching capitalizes on your power within. It's that simple and profound at the same time. I help my clients pinpoint who they want to become. And we work together to create that reality. Again it's not about struggle. It's about fun, common sense, feeling the pull of your values and most of all viewing your world positively.

Coaching, and living a great life at home, at work and at play is about fully living today. This means that you do not spend your time regretting what happened in the past or dreaming about what could happen in the future.  You see the beauty of your life, today.  And. You created it. You are responsible for what you have. And. Only you can change it. If you see it as perfect you learn to accept what is. You stop struggling with what you want to change in others: family, colleagues, and friends. Chances are what you want to change in others is what bugs you about yourself, anyway.

The bottom line is that as your coach I'll work (sometimes play is a more accurate word) to help you release the forces in you: your energy, love, brilliance, your positive thoughts, your beliefs, your wisdom, and your values.

I'll help you design a plan for you life and live it. I'll challenge you, encourage you, celebrate your joy and fully experience your sadness.

Coaching tools
Here are some of the coaching tools that I will use with you as my client. They will help us gain insight into your situation and point out a path to follow.

1. Client Profile
2. Coaching Session Preparation Form
3. Personal Action Plan
4. Wheel of Life
5. Wheel of Work
6. Results at Work Journal
7. Judge You Neighbour Worksheet
8. Byron Katie Facilitation Guide
9. Financial Clutter
10. Office Clutter
11. Websites for personal growth

Personal growth articles by and about Brooke Broadbent. Click on titles to download the articles.

1. Author's Inspiration Comes Along the Pilgrim's Way, Kitchissipi Times, March 23, 2006 
2. Moving Beyond Worry, Stress and Fear, alive Magazine, March, 2006 
3. Author Helps People Find Path to Peace, Orleans Star, Jan 18, 2006.
4. "A Cycling Tour Through the County", County Magazine, Fall, 2004 
5. "An Adventure in Algonquin Park", Unpublished
6. "Local adventure athlete faces toughest challenge yet" Ottawa Outdoor Magazine, Summer/Fall, 2005
7. "Laughing Matters", Alive Magazine, June, 2005
8. "Moving Beyond Fear", Tone Magazine, March 2005
9. "Off the Beaten Path"(transformation on the Camino de Santiago), T+D*, August 2004
10. "Personal Coaching", T+D*, November 2003