What is Personal Consulting?
A Personal Consultant is a facilitator who assists others in identifying and achieving their goals. The Consultant will have developed their own expertise and life skills over many years, through personal success and failure. They also have a gift for helping others achieve their goals, and will have qualified – as a therapist, life coach or sometimes both – in ways to help others achieve their potential by working collaboratively with them.
A Personal Consultant therefore works in partnership with their clients. If you decide to work with a Personal Consultant you can expect that they will:
- Establish the basis of their working relationship with you
- Understand what is important to you, your strengths and abilities
- Discuss your needs and help you establish your goals
- Understand what it is you want to achieve
- Help you clarify your thinking around your aims and ambitions
- Help prioritise and plan the steps needed to achieve them
- Monitor progress with you and help you build on your success
- Review key stages to consolidate new learning and habits
- Withdraw when their job is done.
Personal Consultants are Solution Focused. They do not spend time analysing or worrying about problems and their causes, they are more interested in effects and outcomes.
Though they have expertise, a Personal Consultant do not provide expert advice or instruction, they help their clients by identifying natural strengths and successes and building on them.
Personal Consulting helps the client improve and grow as a person, moving towards their goals and ambitions, amplifying and developing their creative mind-set and their life-skills as they do so.
The goals that are best suited for the process require clients to grow and improve as a person to accomplish them.
Personal Consulting is useful for:
- Devoting some time to what you want in your life
- increasing resiliency and reducing stress
- Improving personal decision-making
- Developing a greater sense of control and peace of mind,
- Building confidence and self-esteem
- Understanding and focusing on personal and professional goals
- Identifying the client’s passions, desires, values and priorities
- Sorting out what is important to the individual and enabling them to move towards it or do more of it.
The nature of the personal consultancy process requires that client and consultant to develop a confidential partnership that is mutually trusting, respectful and focused.
Success always belongs to the client, the Personal Consultant is the facilitator.
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