Professional coaches provide an ongoing partnership designed to help clients produce fulfilling results in their personal and professional lives.

Coaches help people improve their performance and enhance the quality of their lives.

Top athletes all have coaches - is your life less important_

People hire a coach because

• They want balance,

• They want to grow,

• They want more,

• They want it easier.

Focus on what is important We live in a fast paced world with ever increasing amounts of information and input. It becomes more and more difficult to get an overview and perspective on what is essential and what is superfluous. Yet such "helicopter views" are ever more important. A coach will help you stay focused on what is important and maintain the big picture of your life and business.

Better decisions With broader perspectives come better choices. A coach will also challenge you to examine your assumptions, to think bigger and to seek alternatives. As you work together this process becomes more effective and translates into decisions that are better informed, more broadly considered and lead to more interesting results.

Smarter goals Goals are important. Good goals give direction, focus and energy. They clarify where you are going and make communication with others easier. On the other hand: poor goals can cause stress, confusion and diversion. A coach helps you set goals for what is really important for you - in life and business, goals that help instead of hinder. And the coach helps you stick to them once they are set!

Fewer problems Problems often exist in the eye of the beholder. What is a problem for one person may be an opportunity for another. A coach will support you to be more proactive so you have fewer problems and to find the perspectives that turn the problems you do encounter into possibilities. More learning Learning helps you feel alive and growing, it's an essential part of being human. Learning comes from experience, or, more precisely, from reflection on one's experiences. A coach will help you set learning goals but also give you the time to reflect and so refine your experiences into learning and wisdom.

Faster development Growth on the outside goes hand in hand with growth on the inside. Changes in your life are reflected in changes in yourself. What you want is always linked to who you are and who you can become. Your coach holds the biggest possible picture of who you are and what is possible for you. As your work together develops and deepens your development will accelerate, probably beyond what you thought possible! It΄s easy to find a coach Want to try coaching_ The ncf can help! On the ncf website you will find the only Nordic database of highly qualified, professional coaches. NCF - improving the quality of coaching Coaching is a new profession.

The Nordic Coach Federation, as the only Nordic trade association for coaching and coaches, provides stability and credibility to coaching. We offer continuous development for our members, certify professional coaches, develop ethics for the profession and speak for coaching in all its htmlects. The mission of the ncf is to build, support and preserve the integrity of the coaching profession in the Nordic countries.