“Coaching! That’s soft!” is often what you’ll hear people say, even if they don’t know what coaching is. Ask anyone who has ever had a great coach; one who pushes, nudges, cajoles, and inspires them to realize their goals and dreams, if coaching is “soft”. Coaching has been around since the first caveman needed help bringing down the first bison. Coaches help people figure out strategies and the implementation of those strategies with honest, clear feedback. We hold up the proverbial mirror to help you see the areas you are blind to and what may be hindering you in your work, with other people and in the quality of your life. We all have those blind spots, even us coaches.

People can be held back from realizing their outer limits by many factors including an assumed lack of resources, feeling overwhelmed, protracted fears, and limiting beliefs to name just a few. It is my belief that you are the best and only expert on your life and no matter where you are in life or business, your potential reaches beyond your current performance. With coaching, you explore the factors to unleash your inner resources, so often overlooked, take a stand in the future you wish to create and begin your journey to discover yourself, alter behaviors as needed and act upon the vastness of your potential. 

As your business coach, I initially operate from a state of “not knowing” and being extremely curious about you, your organization and the perspectives you bring to coaching. In this context, I can more freely hear you without my assumptions or preconceived ideas getting in your way. In “not knowing” what you are about, the responsibility rests with you to clarify your work, goals, ambitions, values, challenges, and accomplishments for me, your coach. Therein begins the journey of stepping into the future you want to design. I work with you to explore what you want to be different, and  challenge your thinking by asking you powerful questions and speaking hard truths, with your permission, of course!  Finally, I work with you to hold you and your team accountable to achieve the results you want.  However, the responsibility for your success in achieving those results rests entirely with you.

Finally, Interplay Coaching believes maintaining a sense of humor adds a great deal to the process of self-discovery and increased performance. Not taking yourself too seriously, while doing serious work gives you more room to maneuver within your life and play with the results. Our coaching is about gaining all of the enjoyment and learning you can out of your unique life and business while challenging you to create a future you once thought lived only in your unreachable dreams!