How often do we think we know what we want to achieve, only to discover that gaps in willpower, past influences and control, and self-discipline hold us back?

Performance coaching helps people identify their motivation, and overcome the blocks  that hold them back. It’s about both support and challenge. It’s particularly useful for the following:

• Long-range business, career, or life planning – While some people may prefer not to have a “life plan,” there’s robust evidence that shows that people who have clear plans and goals are more likely to be successful in the long term.
• Navigating business, career change points – An example of a career change point could be the transition from being primarily seen as a manager to being seen as a leader – someone who offers clear guidance and genuine inspiration. Coaching can help people navigate these change points more successfully.
• Making fundamental changes to performance or behavior – This involves the equivalent of athletes breaking bad habits in their game, and relearning basic skills the right way.
• Handling major life setbacks – High-performance coaching can help people recover from major business or personal setbacks. In particular, it can help people address work-life imbalances, or deal with major episodes of stress or burnout.

Performance Coaching is a process where a trained coach, usually with a business and a psychological background, facilitates the development and action planning of an entrepreneur, business owner, or organization. They work with their clients to identify goals, stick to a strategic plan, and reach their fullest potential. 

Performance Coaches know how to move people. They help clients dig in, understand what keeps them stuck and turning their wheels, identify fears, roadblocks and patterns of emotions or behaviors that are holding them back. Performance coaching requires transparency and vulnerability from the clients. Similar to hiring a financial advisor, Performance coaches cannot fix the weakest links without the clients being totally and completely honest about what those weaknesses are. 

We work in the realm of “why.“

• Why isn’t your business getting off the ground?
• Why are you afraid to quit your 9-5?
• Why are your finances a mess? 
• What formed your initial EQ?
• Do you have imposter syndrome?
• What limiting beliefs about yourself are you holding onto?
• Why are you constantly in the comparison game?

Maybe on the outside in, it looks like you have it all together. People look up to you, your life “looks good”. You’ve put a lot on the line and continue to do so, you work really really hard and the needle does not move. 

What are you doing wrong? It is only you that’s holding you back from your goals. 

A performance coaching experience is uncomfortable. Amy Schillinger drives clients off the edge and then helps them piece back together the useful parts of themselves, leaving the pieces that are dragging them down behind. If you are not ready to change greatly, if you’re not ready to not recognize yourself at the cumulation of our work, you’re not ready for performance coaching. 

You are in this to create a better version of yourself and to Live your Best Life. 

You deserve the wealth that you dream of. 

Performance coaching helps to get you there. 

Working with Amy, she takes a direct role and holds the clients accountable for change. 

“I cannot work harder than you to improve yourself. If you aren’t working twice as hard, you aren’t ready for this intensity of work, and my time is better spent with clients who want to win”.

– Amy Schillinger, LMFT

Performance coaching may also involve working with other people within your business– collaborating with other managers and leaders to make the business a high-performance organization, one in which everybody performs at an optimal level. Only if these managers and leaders are also worth the investment. Oftentimes performance coaching shines the light on the weakest links and it is in the business owners best interests to pivot their employment strategy.

The approaches and techniques used in performance coaching borrow heavily from the worlds of sports and the military – areas where optimal performance is key. 

Working with a coach can help you to: 

• Identify roadblocks to achieving your true potential in your business
• Set practical, achievable goals
• Develop new skills
• Identify and maximize strengths
• Develop tools to overcome weaknesses
• Develop a greater understanding of your wants, needs and desires
• Sense, identify and understand the emotions and reactions that are holding you back and in your interaction to others
• More effectively inspire and drive your business towards success
• Address and overcome negative behavior and thought processes that create roadblocks

You’re the key to your own success. If you realize you’re stuck, contact us today!