Coaching for your clients

Coaching and Occupational Therapy have much in common.

Helping clients identify what is of value to them, breaking down tasks into measurable steps, and empowering clients to take the action necessary to achieve these goals, are core occupational therapy skills. They are the same skills required for life coaching.

There are, however, specific approaches, skills, and techniques which when bought together in coaching, are not part of Occupational Therapy core competencies. These include:

• Asking specific questions which lead to a deep level of reflection and self discovery.
• Clarifying values.
• Identifying and challenging limiting beliefs.

Coaching for your staff:

In the same way that coaching can be used as a clinical tool, it can also equip you with powerful skills as a team leader, department head, or private employer – in fact in any area where you play a managerial role.

You can utilise coaching techniques to enhance your own ability to effectively communicate with your staff, to assist them in establishing clear and purposeful goals, and to empower them to develop strategies to move forward.

Working with teams from a coaching perspective, puts the emphasis on the individuals who make up that team, and on who they need to be in order to create the change in themselves that will lead to resourceful and sustainable change within the group.

Coaching for yourself:

As Occupational Therapists, we are experts in life design for our clients. Designing our own personal and professional lives is often more difficult!

Through the process of objective, external coaching/mentoring, at EDEN Coaching we are committed to helping you with:

• Gaining work/life balance
• Planning your career
• Enhancing your professional performance
• Resolving specific problems at work
• Re-kindling your passion for work
• Boosting your confidence and self esteem
• Improving staff retention
• Developing and enhancing your team
• Clarifying team/department direction and priorities

Ten hours of specific supervision time can be counted toward the annual 30 hours CPD requirement for AHPRA registraian.