Coaching and Organization

How often do you think organization is a barrier to success?  Organization skills typically go hand-in-hand with time management skills; sometimes people do great with one of these skills and not the other.  Consider how many professionals are available to organize closets, cabinets, garages, and offices.  Beyond that professionals offer services such as running errands or cooking meals or coordinating services.  Coaching is a skill for the professionals offering these services and coaches have clients for whom organization is a barrier to success.

Consider these questions:

  • As a coach, how important is it to have organization skills?
    • Coaches organize client records and organization is necessary to ensure confidentiality and having the information during coaching sessions.
    • Coaches are responsible for running their business and success requires organization.
    • Coaches discuss organization with clients.
  • As an organization consultant or concierge, how important are coaching skills for supporting client organization in the long term?
    • Coaching supports long term change and skill development which means after helping a client get organized, coaching helps them stay organized.
    • Coaching ensures exploring what the client really wants and providing the service in a way that works for them individually.
  • How often is organization a skill coaching clients want to develop?
    • While most people benefit from enhanced organization skills few identify it as a high priority.
    • Organization supports client focus and action.
  • Is accountability for organization a factor in coaching results?
    • Coaches are accountability partners so the obvious answer is yes.
    • Discussing organization with clients empowers their success.

As a coach, your own organization impacts your success and your knowledge of organization skills impacts the success of your clients.  What is your process now to enhance your organization and knowledge?

Cathy Liska

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Most blog posts here are written or curated by Cathy Liska, Guide from the Side®, CDP, MCC.

Cathy is CEO/Founder of the Center for Coaching Certification, CCC. As Guide from the Side®, she is a sought-after trainer and coach with over 30 years of experience in business management and ownership. Cathy built her diverse team at CCC that includes trainers, customer service, and coaches. She was Co-Leader for ICF’s Ethics Community of Practice, on the Leadership Team for the review and updating of the Code of Ethics in 2024, and active in the Ethics Water Cooler. To ensure she stays current in related areas of expertise, Cathy has earned the following: ICF’s Master Certified Coach (MCC), Certified Coach Trainer, Certified Consumer Credit Counselor, Certificate of Excellence in Nonprofit Leadership and Management, Grief Support Group Facilitator, Certified in the Drucker Self-Assessment Tool, Certified Apartment Manager, Certified Civil and Family Mediator, and Certified in DISC.

Cathy’s clients range from attorneys to corporate executives, government to nonprofit, entrepreneurs to children, under or unemployed to newly retired. She specializes in communication, management, conflict, and leadership. Her personal mission statement is “People.” Cathy is known for her passion to serve others so they achieve the results they want.

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