Our Approach

The Chameleon Team utilizes their advanced training to provide a systems-based approach to individual and team development. Our techniques facilitate proactive and meaningful conversation that goes beyond routine problem solving models. Chameleon's professional coaches have the unique ability to elicit the existing creativity, skills, and potential from within the client. Our approach enhances the process of life-long learning; creating momentum and inspired action, increasing effectiveness, and furthering the fulfillment of the client's unique personal, relationship, or professional goals.

What makes us different? Well, we take into consideration the unique culture of our clients. Whether you are an individual, team, organization or community we learn about, integrate and leverage against the strength of your unique culture. In other words we spend time building a relationship with you based on trust and respect. Then we collaborate with you to co-create an approach that integrates your unique cultural beliefs and protocols. We don€t use a cookie cutter approach. We know that every individual, team, organization and community is different. When we honour and integrate the existing values system of our clients the changes that emerge out of the coaching process are truly sustainable!

We combine the following models and philosophies in the creation, implementation and facilitation of all our coaching initiatives:

The Co-Active Coaching Model
Arnold Mindell€s Process Work
John Gottman€s Relationship Research
Emotional Intelligence
Appreciative Inquiry
Neuro Linguistic Programming
Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching
Alternate Dispute Resolution and Mediation
Quantum Physics
Principles of Effective Adult Education
Spirituality and Culture

ABOUT THE COACHING PROCESS

The Coaching Process€Coaching typically begins with a personal interview (either face-to-face or by teleconference call) to assess the client€s current opportunities and challenges, define the scope of the relationship, identify priorities for action, and establish specific desired outcomes. Subsequent coaching sessions may be conducted in person or over the telephone, with each session lasting a previously established length of time. Between scheduled coaching sessions, clients may be asked to complete specific actions that support the achievement of one€s personally prioritized goals. The coach may provide additional resources in the form of relevant articles, checklists, assessments, or models, to support the individual€s thinking and actions. The duration of the coaching relationship varies depending on the client€s needs and preferences.

Assessments€a variety of assessments are available to support the coaching process, depending upon the needs and circumstances of the client. Assessments provide objective information which can enhance the client€s awareness as well as awareness of others and their circumstances, provide a benchmark for creating coaching goals and actionable strategies, and offer a method for evaluating progress.

Concepts, models and principles€A variety of concepts, models and principles drawn from the behavioural sciences, management literature, spiritual traditions and/or the arts and humanities, may be incorporated into the coaching conversation in order to increase the client€s awareness and awareness of others, foster shifts in perspective, promote fresh insights, provide new frameworks for looking at opportunities and challenges, and energize and inspire the client€s forwarding of actions.

Appreciative approach€Coaching incorporates an appreciative approach. The appreciative approach is grounded in what€s right, what€s working, what€s wanted, and what€s needed to get there. Using an appreciative approach, the coach models constructive communication skills and methods the individual or team can utilize to enhance personal communication effectiveness. The appreciative approach incorporates discovery-based inquiry, proactive (as opposed to reactive) ways of managing personal opportunities and challenges, constructive framing of observations and feedback in order to elicit the most positive responses from others, and envisioning success as contrasted with focusing on problems. The appreciative approach is simple to understand and employ, but its effects in harnessing possibility thinking and goal-oriented action can be profound.

THE ROLE OF THE COACH / CLIENT

The role of the coach is to provide objective assessment and observations that foster the individual€s or team members€ enhanced self-awareness and awareness of others, practice astute listening in order to garner a full understanding of the individual€s or team€s circumstances, be a sounding board in support of possibility thinking and thoughtful planning and decision making, champion opportunities and potential, encourage stretch and challenge commensurate with personal strengths and aspirations, foster the shifts in thinking that reveal fresh perspectives, challenge blind spots in order to illuminate new possibilities, and support the creation of alternative scenarios. Finally, the coach maintains professional boundaries in the coaching relationship, including confidentiality, and adheres to the coaching profession€s code of ethics.

The role of the individual or team is to create the coaching agenda based on personally meaningful coaching goals, utilize assessment and observations to enhance self-awareness and awareness of others, envision personal and/or organizational success, assume full responsibility for personal decisions and actions, utilize the coaching process to promote possibility thinking and fresh perspectives, take courageous action in alignment with personal goals and aspirations, engage big picture thinking and problem solving skills, and utilize the tools, concepts, models and principles provided by the coach to engage effe2ctive forward actions.

What does coaching ask of an individual? To be successful, coaching asks certain things of the individual, all of which begin with intention...

Focus€on one€s self, the tough questions, the hard truths--and one€s success
Observation€the behaviours and communications of others
Listening€to one€s intuition, assumptions, judgments, and to the way one sounds when one speaks
Self discipline€to challenge existing attitudes, beliefs and behaviours and to develop new ones which serve one€s goals in a superior way
Style€leveraging personal strengths and overcoming limitations in order to develop a winning style
Decisive actions€however uncomfortable, and in spite of personal insecurities, in order to reach for the extraordinary
Compassion€for one€s self as he or she experiments with new behaviours, experiences setbacks€and for others as they do the same
Humour€committing to not take one€s self so seriously, using humour to lighten and brighten any situation
Personal control€maintaining composure in the face of disappointment and unmet expectations, avoiding emotional reactivity
Courage€to reach for more than before, to shift out of being fear based in to being in abundance as a core strategy for success, to engage in continual self examination, to overcome internal and external obstacles

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