Hire a Professional Coach

Indaba Professional Coaches provide a sounding board for their clients. Most important, they provide models of excellence, a proven process, and knowledge for their clients to follow so that they work towards achieving their goals.

Our Coaches help clients ‘hold up their mirror’ in a productive way that people too close to the client and/or the situation often can’t. We help clients understand that a monumental ‘shift in thinking’ followed by short- and long-term shifts in behavior can indeed create healthier habits. We help motivate them and hold them accountable because this ‘shift’ takes time and concentrated effort.

When the client becomes discouraged, experiences internal anguish or loses hope again their coach can be their sounding board, supporter, as well as their ‘accountability person’. Many times, shifting these vital elements from another person (family member, boss, etc.) to their coach preserves vital relationships and allows the person to be vulnerable so they can admit when they need help.

Increasing behavior awareness and enhancing future performance simultaneously often require a ‘shift in thinking’. Often, people are never taught precisely how to make a ‘behavioral shift’ as well as an ‘actions shift’. Often the reason that coaching efforts don’t ‘stick’ is that these two don’t line up. Even if the person wants to do both, they just don’t have the knowledge, tools, or accountability coach to get there. That’s why Indaba Coaching is so important.

An Indaba Professional Coach helps their clients walk through their goals in appropriate timelines. A Coach also stresses the need for introspection and self-examination, resulting in a rational and critical approach to solving ethical dilemmas and problems and juggling paradoxes. They help the client clarify their thinking by asking probing questions, listening intently for both intent and decision making that will result in actions, behaviors, and habits. The coach is trained to provide clear definitions of basic concepts. They provide insight into the client’s natural behavior patterns and explain the behaviors vital for the client to exhibit. Most important, they track progress and provide a standard for accountability.

Unlike other coaching methodologies, we do not believe the client has all the answers. We believe that no one has all the answers for the things they face in life. With that guiding principle, we not only ask probing questions, we help the client walk through options, and ask them to explore the consequences of their decision making. Through questioning, probing, observing, and interviewing we can provide suggestions, options, and education to help in this realm.

We use our own DISC Assessment that we created - DISCflex with our coaching clients. DISCflex uncovers the client’s behavioral tendencies and our coaches can help them flex their behavior to maximize their strengths and mitigate their weaknesses. Flexing behavior to the situations our clients face is an extremely important skill set: Behavior is what causes action. Repeated ingrained actions are habits. Think of the way to tune into all your habits as if you are a radio. Each station is a different habit. By raising or lowering the frequency dial (dialing up and dialing down), you can ‘set’ your station (your behavior) for whatever situation you are facing. This way of thinking sets the tone for acquiring better Behavior. We have proven for more than three decades that behavioral change is possible in any arena of life – from communicating effectively, dealing with anger, handling employee concerns, working with different people, and just about every professional skill imaginable. With the appropriate knowledge and guidance from an experienced Indaba Coach, clients can acquire enhanced proficiency in Performance and Behavior.