Results Coaching

Do you need more motivation, support, that egde? Would you ever consider working with a results coach?

If you're NOT getting what you want on your own, consider working once a week or month with a success coach!
I can help empower you to take action more consistently to produce the results you want.
The simplest answer is I work with you as your performance coach until WE get the results YOU want!

The biggest challenge for most individuals in creating success in their business or personal lives is they're unclear about the direction and their goals. So as your success coach we'll begin by simply helping you define exactly what "it" is, support you in this new direction and along the path, and then most importantly, teach you strategies to motivate yourself on a more consistent basis until you've achieved them! Email me Today!

Learning to take full responsibility of your behavior and making the best decisions possible is the real secret to an exceptional personal and professional life! What if together, we could easily define what you desire at this point in your life, and effortlessly move you to take consistent action everyday to achieve it? Would our relationship be worth your investment? Intrigued? Call my personal office number (818) 879-2000 and lets find out this is something that will work for you!

What is Results Coaching?

Coaching is one of the fastest growing new professions. What is the appeal? Recent issues of Newsweek, Money Magazine and the Wall Street Journal urge professionals to avail themselves of the services of a personal coach, Why? Dedicated athletes use coaches to increase their focus and to provide support, structure, and ongoing accountability to prepare them for competition. Organizations and individuals more and more are now hiring and working with results coaches because they are interested in doing their very best. As humanswe have a deep need to grow and develop, and to actualize our potential to it's fullest. Being and doing our very best!

The Personal and Professional Coaches Association defines coaching as "an ongoing relationship, which focuses on clients taking action toward the realization of their vision, goals or desires. Coaching uses a process of inquiry and personal discovery to build the clients level of awareness and responsibility, and provides the client with structure, support and feedback." How is that different from existing professions? Like counseling, it is client centered and individual. Like consulting, it is outcome oriented, dealing in visions and actions. The major difference between masterful training, counseling, therapy, consulting or mentoring and masterful coaching can be described quite simply. The coach does not have answers. The coach does not provide expertise. A coach operates from the presupposition that the client (player) has all the resources, including the ability to discover and utilize resources. Want to get your goals even quicker, get my new Kindle book; Setting Goals, Quick & Easy Worksheet, Therory and SMART Goals.

Conditioning You For Success

Can you answer this; can you describe what specially you want in your life right now? Are you clear about it? Would a 7 year old be able to comprehend it? Do you take action on a daily basis to achieve it? This is specifically what our Personal and Professional Success Coaching gives you, the ability to empower yourself on an on-going basis to ACT, the ability to consistently take daily action!  In developing a partnership as your Success Coach I personally work with you to clarify your goals, expand your creativity, create more flexibility, and quickly move you towards your outcomes. We can work together weekly, monthly or as often as you like to make your future so compelling, it will actually feel as if it’s drawing you towards it. You MUST reprogram your old limiting beliefs with new empowering beliefs to produce the results you desire. Contact Us

Initial Call - Complementary Introductory 30 minute Call.
The purpose is to establish the compatibility of our partnership.
I will follow up via email with an invitation to work together.

Private 1 on 1 / Phone Coaching
Weekly 30 min. or Bi-weekly 60 min. calls, your choice.
3 Session minimum.
$150./Session - Quantity sessions discount.

Terms & Conditions:
Availability: When John's schedules permits. Usually Monday-Friday.
Payment Policy: Check or monthly charge to your credit card.
Cancellation Policy: 24hr.period required to reschedule or you will be charged the full amount of the session.

We are very selective at whom we work with. You must be committed to "do whatever it takes to succeed."
Our tele-coaching investment is as follows; $150. per hour, 3 session minimum (at your discretion).

Goal Setting, The First Step...

One of the greatest investments you’ll make in your lifetime will be in yourself. The challenge is we're often too busy or too distracted to focus on who we really want to become. So we often overlook ourselves and sacrifice goals and dreams until we realize “time fly’s by so quickly.” If you're like most people you do have dreams but never put them down on paper in detail, making them a reality. Many studies have concluded that writing down your goals, manifests them 15 times sooner than just thinking about them occasionally. It would be like chartering a plane for a vacation without a destination, why would you settle taking the most important journey in life without first deciding your where you want to go!

Three essential steps of goal setting;

1 - Define who and where you are!
2 - Design clear goals and a plan for it's achievment!
3 - Determine to empower yourself everyday to action!

As an expert in behavioral change, we’ll create a whole new path for your life to travel upon, and the road to success is a whole lot smoother having a map and a guide to make your journey much more FUN!

There Is No Failure, Only Feedback...

The coach holds a safe space within which the player can explore. That space allows the player a "time out" to evaluate how the game is going, to establish the evidence procedures for success, and to strategize future action steps. The coach does not judge results. There is no failure, only feedback. The coach does expect the player to take responsibility and to develop the flexibility to overcome barriers.

Coaches also provide structure. As coaches hear players express a desire for action, they make requests. Examples of requests are: "Will you make two calls about that this week?" "Will you spend ten minutes a day on this?" Requests are negotiable. The player might counter, "No, I won’t do it every morning, but Ill do it three times this week." The alliance evolves. Once requests are accepted, coaches hold players accountable for taking those actions.

As individuals, most of us prefer self generated action steps, yet we often fail to take them because no outside force holds us to them. We rarely have deadlines for the things we want to do for ourselves, so they go to the bottom of the "to do" list. By holding a player accountable, the coach sets up an expectation. The call provides a deadline. In my own experience working with a coach, I have often done things on my list in the half hour before my coaching call. Without the structure of coaching, I would let those things slide. Players choose the steps they want to be held accountable for. The coach provides an external expectation that those steps will be taken.

How Long Does A Coaching Relationship Last...

Most coaches require an initial commitment of three to six sessions from players; many individuals often remain within the coaching relationship much longer. One of our main objective of coaching is to help the player establish habits of curiousity and accountability, that way after they have completed their initial work with John they may want to cut back to monthly or quarterly check-in sessions.

Often after an initial month or two, players learn to make powerful use of the relationship and have changed their expectations about the coaching relationship. They begin with the assumption that the coach will have all the answers and will help them get "back-on-track" and will lead to personal success. Though usually after just a session or two the players begin taking responsibility for their own changes they create in their lives. Then the efforts of creating success in their lives becomes much easier once they learn it's all based upon THIER actions. We are just the guide.

Designing Our Partnership...

The coach and player work together to design an alliance. They define structures that will support the player as he or she moves toward a goal. Players have the most up to date and complete information about how they operate. They know what structures or habits will encourage their movement.

They know from experience what on the spot decisions they have to make. The player is in the game; the coach is only on the sidelines. Only the player can take action. Some of the questions addressed in the process of designing the alliance includes: How do I want to be held accountable for moving toward my goals? What perspectives do I want my coach to remind me of? What is the best use of my coaching time? The alliance evolves as the player discovers more of what works best. The coach does not know. The player does.

The coach does not define how things should be, but is committed to helping the player clarify "what is" (the present state) and what he or she wants in the future. What is your game? What "gold" are you going for? The "how" pieces, how to get from here to there, present state to desired state, don’t come from the coach. The player has those answers. Players define the game and create the game plans; coaches help them stay on track.

Many beginning players start the process expecting the coach to have answers, the magic "tip." Yet the coach, confers on the player a powerful sense of control and responsibility. The player operates according to his/her own map. The player is familiar with the environment and knows the other players and the rules of the game. The skillful coach helps to articulate and perhaps challenge those rules and raises questions. In the process of outlining the game and the rules for the coach, the player gains clarity. Action steps emerge!

NLP and Coaching...

NLP presuppositions, skills, and models serve the coach in many ways. Several of the presuppositions of NLP are particularly useful in establishing the coaching frame. In reading this article, I’m sure you have noticed many of them. Everyone has the resources he or she needs. The worth of an individual is constant, while the behavior can change. The map is not the territory. We respond to our maps, not to any "objective" reality. It is better to have choices than not to have choices. Behavioral flexibility is more useful than having limited behavioral choices. Every behavior has a positive intent. There are no mistakes, only feedback. These presuppositions balance responsibility with non-judgment, and allow the player to evaluate without being self- deprecating.

By living these presuppositions, experienced NLP practitioners naturally embody the attitudes of great coaches both assume that the player is capable. Both have experience exploring underlying mental frameworks that either support or inhibit growth. They are less likely to get distracted by "the story," the surface structure. They assist players in finding the deep structure of their experience, where profound change takes place.

NLP skills assist the coach in every session. Since much of coaching takes place on the phone, an NLP coach uses sensory acuity to listen to the players voice tone and tempo. In addition, the coach knows how to listen at different levels, to the player’s message and to the meta-message. The NLP coach listens for familiar language patterns that indicate player’s self-imposed limits, and he/she knows how to generate powerful questions in response to those patterns. The NLP coach can introduce the idea of multiple perspectives through skillful questioning. "What might your future self suggest?" "Is this the critic? What does the dreamer have to say?"

Practicing, developing, and rehearsing the physical mechanics of your sport is only the beginning, sports psychology and the mental preparation is the most important aspect of your game. We also assist sports professionals and athlete’s to achieve peak performance in their mental game as well. Arnold Palmer once said; “Golf is a game of inches. The most important are the six inches between your ears.” So you’ve hired a golf instructor, taken the lessons and improved your swing. You know the mechanics and yet you've come to the point where you no longer feel you’re improving. The game of golf, like any other sport, is 80% mental. The ability to become outstanding is determined by the state of mind and the preparation you do before and during the game. If you’ve only invested in technical aspects of your game, it’s time now, to invest in your mental capability and improve your focused concentration. Your ability to tap into an empowering state of mind at any moment of play is essential and will take your performance to the next level by working with me as your performance coach.

Give me a call and lets talk about how easy it is to get you moving to the next level of your success - (818) 879-2000

Warm Regards,
John James Santangelo
Telephone/Fax (818) 879-2000
5699 Kanan Road, Suite 188
Agoura Hills, CA 91301 USA