Coaching
Professional Coaching Practice and Leadership Development
Bill’s highly intuitive style, deep insights and creative coaching strategies open clients to greater self awareness on where they are today and the choices they are considering. With greater awareness they are empowered with meaning and purpose to design and realize their desired future. As a professional life coach and a credentialed member of the International Coach Federation (ICF), Bill listens, observes and customizes the process of coaching to his client’s desired goals. Together the client and Bill create a partnership designed to help understand how committed the client is to the change they are wanting and what it’s going to take for them to have the courage to commit to improve their performance to enhance the quality of both their professional and personal life. Clients also appreciate Bill’s: It has been Bill’s experience that people come to coaching for many reasons. Whether it’s for career advancement or performance improvement and/or development, the common element is about making a change. For many people, making change takes courage. Coaching provides a conversation forum for self-discovery and understanding of how one can move through the obstacles or challenges to the actualization of their desired change. As a professional life coach Bill listens, observes and customizes the process of coaching to his client’s desired goals. Together the client and Bill create a partnership designed to explore, discover and accelerate their strengths and untapped potential. By understanding how committed the client is to the change they are wanting, clients begin to discover their true life agenda and create mechanisms for positive change to enhance the quality of both their professional and personal life. Goals are reached by seeking to elicit solutions and strategies from the client and holding them as creative, resourceful and whole. Bill’s role as a professional coach is to provide support in enhancing the skills, resources and creativity that the client has discovered, initiating what it’s going to take for them to have the courage to commit to improve their performance. Executives who come to Bill ready and willing to engage deeply in a coaching conversation; will actualize their individual authenticity and move their new-found awareness into action. Assessment tools By utilizing the EQ-i 2.0 Emotional Intelligence Assessment as a leadership assessment tool, the results of this assessment not only highlight client strengths and areas for improvement but also their blind spots. Understanding both the scientific and personal connections between the various emotional intelligence skills allows further enables the client and Bill to work together to design a process for improved leadership performance. Bill will also use any existing assessment tools that the client has already completed (ie; Myers Briggs, Kolbe, etc.) as a tool for expanding their awareness of potential opportunities to consider for development of their performance agenda. Bill utilizes the “living systems approach” to team coaching. With any pre-determined goals set, Bill works with the team as the experts in their work facilitating an “appreciative approach”. This empowers the team to gain the awareness that allows them to anchor best practices and make choices that will effectively address any issues and gaps as they move forward as a collaborative team. Authenticity Leadership Workshops The development of Bill’s 4-part Authenticity series of workshops on embrac These workshops take the leadership pillars of authenticity, collaboration, innovation and visionary articulation to bring about optimum leadership and are comprehensive in building confident, impactful leaders. “Thank YOU Bill! Please accept my deepest gratitude for your guidance and wisdom. I appreciate your honest feedback, your courageous confidence and your willingness to share your vulnerability and your strength. You have made a tremendous impact on my life and I will always be grateful for having met you. I do hope to cross paths again!” Julie Dupont – Corporate Trainer, Linamar Corporation International Coach Federation The International Coach Federation (ICF) offers the following philosophy and definition of coaching. The ICF adheres to a form of coaching that honours the client as an expert in his/her personal and/or professional life, and believes that every client is creative, resourceful and whole. Professional coaching is an ongoing partnership that helps clients produce fulfilling results in their personal and professional lives. Through the process of coaching, clients deepen their learning, improve their performance and enhance their quality of life. Standing on this foundation, the coach’s responsibility is to: Coaching accelerates the client’s progress by providing greater focus and awareness of choice. This process helps clients dramatically improve their outlook on work and life, while improving their leadership skills and unlocking their potential. In each meeting, the client chooses the focus of the conversation, while the coach listens and contributes observations and questions. This interaction creates clarity and moves the client into action. Coaching concentrates on where clients are today and what they are willing to do to get to where they want to be tomorrow. 
Executive Coaching
Bill recommends and offers the EQ-i 2.0 Leadership Assessment as part of his approach for leadership coaching. The second generation EQ-i 2.0 Leader Assessment measures the client’s results against not only the median average but also the top 100 emotionally intelligent leaders in North America.
If an individual wants a broader understanding of their emotional intelligence as it impacts others in their organization, the 360º Leadership Assessment may also be considered as part of the leadership development program Bill would recommend and provide.Team Coaching
ing the benefits of authenticity takes the participants on an interactive journey of learning how to be a more effective authentic leader by developing their emotional intelligence skills, building authentic relationships and living their authentic life purpose.
These workshops were launched in 2014 and corporate versions of the program can be customized to accommodate organizational needs and challenges. An off site leadership retreat version is also available.
To learn more about the programs and services Bill provides, call 905-508-7273 or email him at wcotric@changingdimensions.comMentor Coaching
Bill has well over a decade of experience of being a professional life coach. During that time Bill has been on the Adler faculty as a facilitator of the Coaching Certificate Program and Practicum Lead. This facilitator role has provided him with deep knowledge and understanding of the theory and science behind coaching. His successful coaching practice has provided him with diverse coaching experiences that enabled him to also master the art and heart of coaching. His mentor coaching is customized to the individual’s learning needs and challenges with the ICF competencies of coaching. Mentor coaching is focused on the deepening of coaching competency skills and is not about coaching personal issues or how to build a coaching business. If desired, a combination of personal and mentor coaching is an option that can be provided.
As a professional coach and a member of the ICF, Bill acknowledges and honours his ethical obligations and complies with the ICF Standards of Ethical Conduct. For more information about the ICF please visit the ICF website.
