How We Coach You

Setting Coaching Goals

In your first Coaching session with your Donna Schilder Coach™, you will select 5-6 main Coaching Goals for your Coaching engagement.

Throughout your engagement, your Coach will help you keep your focus on these goals & support you in reaching them. Your goals may change over time but your Coach will help you adjust your course as necessary to support you in attaining your new goals.

In your first Coaching session, you’ll also discuss how you want to work with your Coach & share any information that you want your Coach to know about you.

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In Each Coaching Session

Prior to each Coaching session (or at the beginning of the session), you will determine what you’d like to work on in that session.

As you work with your Coach on your selected topic, they will ask you deep questions to help you learn about yourself & offer Coaching processes & tools to help you move forward toward your session goal(s).

Your Coach will also help you:

Review your progress on your actions
Create accountability for yourself to complete your actions
Brainstorm ways to overcome the barriers you encounter

Your Coach will Create a Space For You To:

Determine who you want to be
Create a vision for your work & life
Brainstorm possibilities
Create a career or life path
Discover new ways of thinking, behaving & being
Practice new skills
Solve problems
Generate actions to help you achieve your goals

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Coaching Modalities

Other coaching modalities you can choose from include:

Brainstorming
Appreciative inquiry
Role play
Guided imagery
Examination of beliefs
Processing of emotions
Examination of behavior patterns
Review of Assessment & Inventory reports

Moving Forward & Designing Actions

Our goal is to help you achieve deep awareness about who you are, what you want, what gets in your way & how to overcome it so that you build your ideal work & life.

Your Donna Schilder Coach™ will be your non-judgmental guide, helping you seek clarity to support your forward movement & personal growth.

When partnering with you to design your actions, your Coach will help you take into account your learning style, personality type, communication style & the current issues you’re facing.

They will also help you find time in your busy schedule to complete your actions.

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Committing to Coaching

The power of Coaching is realized through consistency, active participation & perseverance. Personal progress comes through small actions and small changes in thinking that build up to a big change over time.

To honor the Coaching process, we request an initial client commitment of at least three months, with a suggested commitment of 6 months to a year.

Coaching Structure

Personal Coaching Sessions are 45-Minutes long.

Coaching frequency:

Three times per month
Two times per month

We have found this length & frequency to be the best structure for most people. But, if you prefer a different structure, we can accommodate you.

We are based in Long Beach, CA, but we work over the phone & Coach clients throughout the U.S.

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Why Coaching Works

Coaching works because it is:

Co-Designed: You work with your Coach to determine your goals, coaching session agendas, coaching approaches, and actions.

Just-in-Time: You will work on issues as they come up & apply new approaches immediately.

Iterative: You are able to determine a course of action, try it, review it with your Coach, redesign it, try it again, in a cycle that creates success.

Efficient: We help you manage your Coaching time so you get a great deal done in a short & concentrated time.

Convenient: Coaching is done on the phone so you don’t even have to leave your office or home. And 45-Minute Coaching sessions will easily fit into your busy schedule.

Paying for Coaching

People fund Coaching in many different ways:

Pay for it themselves
Pay for it through their business
Ask their company to pay for all (or half of it)
Use their company’s Educational Reimbursement Program
Use their Expense Account
Ask their parents or a family member to fund it

However you pay for it, it is a great investment in you!

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We provide Leadership Coaching, Career Coaching & Job Search Coaching

Leadership Coaching

Hone your Leadership skills, step up to the next level of leadership, build your Personal Brand, and manage your career path

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Career Coaching

Explore your career possibilities, gain clarity about who you are and what you want, and select a career that’s meaningful and matches your lifestyle

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Job Search Coaching

Select your job search strategies, improve your job search skills, increase your productivity, and land your dream job

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Meet Our Coaches

Carole Billingham, MCC

Leadership, Career & Life Coach

Katie Smith, MCC

Leadership, Career & Job Search Coach

Chris Sier, PCC, BCC

Leadership, Career & Job Search Coach

Ariana McNally, PCC

Leadership, Career & Job Search Coach

Vicki Rich, MBA, ACC

Leadership & Career Coach

Karen Roussel, MSOD, ACC

Leadership, Career, Job Search & Sales Coach

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We provide Leadership, Career & Job Search Coaching

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Coaching Outcomes

Leadership Coaching Outcomes

“Through our Leadership Coaching work together I made progress toward all of my initial goals for Coaching. I now spend more time building relationships with my peers, staff, and superiors, which greatly benefits me in my work.

I have set aside time for Strategic Thinking and have used most of the strategic thinking tools you provided to me to shape my strategic thinking activities.

I recently sent my thoughts from one of those strategic thinking sessions to my boss and it was very impactful to our business.

I am also stronger at inspiring, recognizing, and encouraging my staff. And Coaching changed the way I look at myself and others in a positive way and impacted how I interact in meetings. I now do planning before most of my meetings and find that I am more successful at getting what I need for my department and in influencing others. . . ” — B.M., Marketing Director

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Career Coaching Outcomes

“I asked Katie to help me find the clarity I needed to truly know what it was I was meant to do and wanted to do next…and that’s exactly what she did. Through her guidance and carefully crafted coaching, Katie helped me gain clarity at a time when things were incredibly cloudy in my career.

After just a few sessions, I was able to see again and with that vision, I found what I was looking for…all of this within a 2 month process. I couldn’t be happier and I know I have Katie to thank for getting me going!”— Jackie Diener, Director of Studio Operations

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Job Search Coaching Outcomes

“Donna has helped me in many ways, including preparing me for an important job interview to support my job search. As a result of her coaching I was more confident during the interview, gave powerful & specific answers to the questions, and felt a sense of ease. Without her coaching I know that the interview would not have gone as well as it did, nor would I have felt as sure of myself. I am tremendously grateful for the coaching I received from Donna.” — H.B., Ph.D. Ed.D., Human Resources Manager, Aerospace Industry

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Setting Coaching Goals

In Each Coaching Session

Your Coach will Create a Space For You To:

Coaching Modalities

Moving Forward & Designing Actions

Committing to Coaching

Coaching Structure

Why Coaching Works

Paying for Coaching

We provide Leadership Coaching, Career Coaching & Job Search Coaching

Leadership Coaching

Career Coaching

Job Search Coaching

Meet Our Coaches

Carole Billingham, MCC

Katie Smith, MCC

Chris Sier, PCC, BCC

Ariana McNally, PCC

Vicki Rich, MBA, ACC

Karen Roussel, MSOD, ACC

We provide Leadership, Career & Job Search Coaching

Coaching Outcomes

Leadership Coaching Outcomes

Career Coaching Outcomes

Job Search Coaching Outcomes

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