Success Coaching

A success coach is kind of like your secret business partner who is totally dedicated to your success -- and you get to keep the profits.

* Here is what busy leaders over the years have said about coaching:
-- "...insurmountable tasks have been broken down into bite-sized chunks."
 -- "Just by meeting over the phone regularly, this experience kept me anchored, focused, and 
      accountable and gave me deadlines for accomplishing things I have always wanted to accomplish..."
 -- "My spouse would have never allowed me to bounce all those crazy thoughts and ideas around in
      casual conversation..."
 -- "I wish I had invested in myself like this a decade ago."

* Here are some of the initial fears that have been expressed about the coaching
      relationship:
-- "Will this be absolutely confidential?"
 -- "Will I be wasting my time? In other words, will it take 8-10 weeks for me to discover that it doesn't
      work?"
 -- "Will it be too expensive?"
 -- "Will he think less of me if I openly share my vulnerabilities?"
 -- "Is he truly competent?"
 -- "How do I really connect with someone whom I have never met, except over the telephone?"

"Coaching with Dr. Freeman stretched me both personally and professionally..."

Some years back I was speaking at an event in Georgia. After the meeting the CEO of a major firm asked me to dinner that evening. He started the conversation by saying, "I have a lawyer to keep me legal, a CPA to keep me liquid, a secretary to keep my schedule straight, and a doctor to keep me healthy. But I have no one to help me assess the real condition of my internal world. Can you give me a mental, emotional and spiritual audit?"

I had never thought about such a thing. I attempted to be helpful, but felt completely lost in doing what he wanted.

This led me to think about an "Internal Audit", first for myself and then possibly for others. Since then, as chaplain for the NBA Washington Wizards (for 19 years) and as a board certified professional counselor/ behavior analyst, I have successfully facilitated an "Internal Audit" with a number of pro athletes and executives.

I am an "absolute nut" about confidentiality. Working with professional athletes taught me an important lesson: You can either talk TO an athlete or you can talk ABOUT an athlete -- but you cannot do BOTH. I bring this integrity into the coaching relationship.

Specific personal skills are needed to face the challenges and complexities of the work world. Professional coaching at The Freeman Institute provides clients in leadership positions with tools for developing greater personal and organizational effectiveness. Coaching clients are helped to:

• discover and develop effective leadership styles
• transform new and established work roles
• manage organizational chaos and complexity
• recognize and channel formal and informal authority relations
• apply and adapt skills to a variety of personal and professional settings
• find answers to organizational conflicts and dilemmas
• achieve balance between work and professional life

Coaching differs often from psychotherapy in that the focus is much more "here-and-now." Attention is given to finding real-time solutions to real-time challenges. Sessions may be held in the Baltimore/Washington region at our office. An approach could include anything from a one-time meeting for specific problem-solving to an ongoing long-distance relationship over the telephone aimed at long-term personal and professional change. Coaching is another way we practice care...
In addition, our organizational effectiveness concepts help individuals get started or move beyond a variety of impasses. We teach organizations the skills they need to create: mission and vision statements, common language, basic infrastructure, collaborative teams, strategic plans, future searches and community. We not only work to alleviate personal and organizational problems, we promote a process of self-understanding, adaptation, and change.
We custom design training on a variety of topics. Check out our seminar program specialties linked below.

Here are some more of the subjects we discuss:

Beyond career or material success, what is the core purpose of my life? Am I moving from power to wisdom?

1. Am I content with who I am becoming?
2. Does my family recognize the authenticity of my life?
3. Do I have a flow-through philosophy?
4. Do I have a quiet center to my life?
5. Is my humility genuine?
6. Is integrity in the small matters built into my reflexes?

Want a free (30-min.) living brochure? An "Internal Audit" can be experienced by selecting one of two options:

1. Sixteen-week EXECUTIVE A PLUS COACHING program
2. On-going, long-distance telephone success coaching