What is Coaching?
Coaching is an ongoing conversation that empowers you to live out your calling.
The goal of coaching is for you to discover new things about yourself and to take action to reshape your life around what you've learned. You can expect new insights, greater personal awarenesses, changed behaviors, actions, and, ultimately, results that satisfy what you are longing for.
Excelsis coaching is a customized learning approach to meet an individual's growth needs.
It helps a person to become aware of:
• Who am I? (Identity, personality, strengths and weaknesses, etc.)
• What is important to me? (Values)
• What am I living for? (Purpose)
• Whose am I? (Lordship)
Excelsis Coaching seeks to inculcate deep and high quality conversations, so that through those conversations, you move from living for survival to living for significance.
We seek to provide self-directed customized one-to-one or small team learning.
Our leadership coaching has two-fold benefits:
For the individual: Leadership coaching will release the inner potential of the leader by providing them with a personalized learning experience, supporting them to address their unique challenges and helping them to be successful in what they do.
For the organization: Leadership coaching will result in a more effective leader which will lead to higher overall performance and employee retention. Hence, the overall position of the organization is improved.
Our Leadership Coaching Process will empower the leaders to have:
CLARITY. We enable leaders to have a clear vision in leading their organization. This requires a leader to have a clear view of themselves, their people, problems, opportunities and resources
CONVICTION. We empower leaders to clarify their values and calibrate their compass to set their direction.
COURAGE. We support leaders to have the courage to chart new courses and lead their people to pursue a new direction.
In career coaching, we work with people who wish to improve their work-life satisfaction, deal with life transitions or make a career change.
We help individuals discover what they really want to do with their lives and then enable in developing strategies to achieve it.
Our Career Coaching is a one-on-one systematic career coaching program that helps you identify your unique design, passion, strengths, and how you can excel in the marketplace.
We address the questions of:
• Who are you? (Discover your design, identity, values, etc..)
• What do you want to do? (Identify your calling, passion, vision, dreams, etc.)
• What do you do well? (Leverage your unique talents, strengths, gifting, abilities, etc.)
• What does the market want? (Explore the marketplace opportunities, your unique values, etc.)
• What should you choose? (Compare the career options and make career decisions)
• What will you do next? (Develop strategies and take action steps to achieve your goals)
We also provide professional career tests and assessments to help you identify your unique design and career options that leverage on your talents and strengths.
In life purpose coaching, we work with people who are either drifting through life, or burnt out, to find balance and purpose in their life and career
Our Life Purpose Coaching is a customized approach that enables an individual to take stock of where they are now (present state) and envision where they want to be (Desired future).
We not only help a person deal with their “here and now” problem, but also help a them discover:
• Who am I? (Identity, personality, strengths and weaknesses, etc.)
• What is really important to me? (Values, passion, dreams, etc)
• Where have I come from? (Experience, skills, abilities, etc)
• What am I living for? (Purpose, mission, vision, etc)
• What empowers me? (Source of strength and purpose)
Through our coaching, you will acquire new insights and move more effectively toward your life goals. Our holistic customized approach will help open up new perspectives and insights, creating action steps for change.
Couples often ask, what is the difference between coaching and counseling?
Coaching focuses on the present and is all about growing. Every marriage is different and has its strengths and weaknesses.
We adopt a customized approach to help couples move from where they are (present) to where they want to be (desired future). We come alongside the couple as facilitators to help them better understand one another, leverage on their strengths and discover the solutions for their specific issues. We will not tell the couple what to do, but will help them gain awareness of the realities and generate options of what will work best for them.
Counseling is for couples who need more specialized help to address past hurts, mental health issues, personality disorder, or other behaviors that are beyond coaching. Therefore, a counselor-client relationship tends to assume a medical model where the counselor has the answers.
Our marriage coaches have an intake process to determine if coaching is right for you. If coaching is not the right fit, we will advise you to see counseling/support resources to get your marriage relationship on track.
At the end of our coaching, we hope that you will learn the skills to:
• Coach your own marriage (Skills to listen and ask each other effective questions)
• Develop a healthier communication
• Learn ways to build intimacy
• Understand each other's roles and responsibilities
• Navigate conflict.
John Lim has helped me tremendously in the first 6 months of a major transition into a leadership role. I left our coaching sessions with a sense of hope and encouragement – a sense of direction. I left our coaching sessions with specific action steps to take in order to move forward and grow personally. John didn’t give me a lot of advice, but he helped me to clarify my own needs and goals and then led me to develop a plan to accomplish those goals and address those needs. John’s coaching has helped me to be more effective and efficient in my new leadership role.
- Brent L (Principal)
I felt very blessed that John conducted the coaching with passion by asking the right questions for me to reflect on and no rush or time pressure. I have learned a lot during this time and his knowledge helped me a lot to reflect and get deeper insights of myself and the environment. The coaching has helped me learned about my strengths and weaknesses and I will focus on how to leverage on my strengths in future
- Alex (Manager)
The greatest assets of John and Song as coaches are their earnestness and genuineness. These are values which definitely helped me to be completely comfortable to express my feelings and concerns, and the sessions truly felt a safe space – I felt heard. Even with their limitless empathy, they still exuded professionalism in the coaching. They were able to prompt me with relevant questions to help me to articulate my thoughts. I was able to gain a greater understanding of myself as an individual and was able to eventually uncover potential career options through their guidance. I consider this coaching to be one of the most significant things I have completed in my life; it was enlightening, encouraging, and filled me with hope. John and Song are without a doubt reliable people you can trust for guidance in your life.
- Gracia (University student)