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What does an Executive Coach do?

Through one on one coaching, an Excecutive Coach helps you to achieve goals and make forward progress in the workplace. Working with an executive Coach, you enhance your performances, confront challenges and obstacles when, and even before, they materialize, and increase your awareness of your strengths and unique skills. An Executive Coach provides you with a:

• Neutral, non-judgmental sounding board
• Confidential forum to discuss challenges/weakness/fears at work
• Safe environment for polishing executive presence
• Vision and movement beyond self-limiting/defeating beliefs

In addition, with your Executive Coach, you can:

• Effectively project confidence
• Align your personal mission with the broader purpose of the company
• Develop empathy and understanding for others' working styles
• Organize your life and create a healthy balance between work and personal time
• Acknowledge your accomplishments
• Cultivate effective decision-making skills

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How can an Executive Coach benefit me?

A Coach functions as an objective listener who is free of preconceived notions. As a Coach, Karen listens actively to your stories, challenges and motivations so that she can help you attain your personal best to further the interests of your organization. Through coaching you will:

• Hone your leadership skills
• Achieve your professional and wider company goals
• Improve your communication abilities
• See beyond your self-limiting beliefs
• Understand the role of femininity in your success
• Improve your management skills
• Enhance your enjoyment and fulfillment at work

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What will I get out of Forward Options Executive Coaching?

Through a coaching relationship with Karen, you will identify what works for you and what needs to change, and then develop a strategy to go forward. You'll create measurable goals and devise ways to achieve them. Together, you and Karen will make tangible changes in your outlook, perspective, and therefore, your career.

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How does Forward Options Executive Coaching work?

We offer a complimentary coaching session to help you decide whether Forward Options Executive Coaching works for you. Following this initial consultation, if you decide to commit to increased productivity and fulfillment at work by working with Karen, we will create a schedule of sessions, by phone or in person if New York City is convenient to you.

You can opt for weekly or bi-weekly Executive Coaching sessions, each of which lasts an hour. With each conference, you will design a specific action plan to implement. In between sessions, you will make individual progress and are always welcome to contact Karen by email or quick phone calls. Growth occurs during the conferences and in the periods between sessions if you use the goals and principles discussed during your conferences to guide you forward.

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What makes Forward Options Executive Coaching different?

Forward Options Executive Coaching focuses specifically on the experiences of women. Karen has studied hundreds of successful and happy women all over the world to create strategies specifically for females. In addition to her studies, Karen overcame many challenges of her own throughout her career and has collected perspectives from several successful women.

Karen's unique perspective of the challenges we go through as women allow her to provide you with insights and support tailored specifically to you.

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For whom does Forward Options Executive Coaching work?

Karen can help you to design a comprehensive plan to create increased success and fulfillment and to enhance your performance at work. She will help you increase your personal satisfaction and help you overcome your weak points. Karen will bring out your best. Karen specializes in the fields below:

• Adjusting to a new work environment (ie promotion transition)
• Honing their communication and leadership skills
• Reassessing purpose, and aligning that purpose with company objectives
• Setting priorities and achieving measurable goals

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Can Forward Options Executive Coaching help me?

Consider the following questions:

• Do you lack confidence in your abilities?
• Do you need help making important decisions?
• Do you feel overwhelmed by the magnitude of your responsibilities?
• Are you having trouble communicating your opinions and ideas?
• Do you need work and life balance?
• Do you find that there is no one around you to share your frustrations?
• Do you need an objective/non-competitive forum to discuss issues?
• Are you frustrated with certain situations at work?
• Do you need to cultivate your leadership skills?

If you've answered yes to any of the questions above, the answer is yes; Forward Options Executive Coaching can help you. Karen actively listens to your needs and desires, helps you to figure out the gap between where you are and where you want to be, and collaborates with you to create a plan to bridge that gap.

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How is Forward Options Executive Coaching different from other executive coaching programs?

Karen Elizaga takes a holistic approach to executive coaching. While focusing on the business goals and challenges at hand, Karen also encourages her clients to explore their personal values, challenges and behaviors. She believes that focusing on the personal is part and parcel of the focus on upward career trajectory. Together, you will explore your self-esteem and self-love and consider how it affects your performance, positively or otherwise, at work.


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What commitment do I need to make?

Forward Options offers one complimentary session to assess your individual needs. Afterwards, most clients maintain a coaching relationship for three to six months. Then, many clients schedule follow-up sessions to reassess their progress and to work through additional obstacles.

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How much does Forward Options Executive Coaching cost?

The cost of Forward Options Executive Coaching varies based on the number and length of the sessions you opt for per month. We will make every attempt to find a structure that works for you. Email us to set up a complimentary session and to set up a plan for you.

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What does an Executive Coach do?

Through one on one coaching, an Excecutive Coach helps you to achieve goals and make forward progress in the workplace. Working with an executive Coach, you enhance your performances, confront challenges and obstacles when, and even before, they materialize, and increase your awareness of your strengths and unique skills. An Executive Coach provides you with a:

• Neutral, non-judgmental sounding board
• Confidential forum to discuss challenges/weakness/fears at work
• Safe environment for polishing executive presence
• Vision and movement beyond self-limiting/defeating beliefs

In addition, with your Executive Coach, you can:

• Effectively project confidence
• Align your personal mission with the broader purpose of the company
• Develop empathy and understanding for others' working styles
• Organize your life and create a healthy balance between work and personal time
• Acknowledge your accomplishments
• Cultivate effective decision-making skills

return to top

How can an Executive Coach benefit me?

A Coach functions as an objective listener who is free of preconceived notions. As a Coach, Karen listens actively to your stories, challenges and motivations so that she can help you attain your personal best to further the interests of your organization. Through coaching you will:

• Hone your leadership skills
• Achieve your professional and wider company goals
• Improve your communication abilities
• See beyond your self-limiting beliefs
• Understand the role of femininity in your success
• Improve your management skills
• Enhance your enjoyment and fulfillment at work

return to top

What will I get out of Forward Options Executive Coaching?

Through a coaching relationship with Karen, you will identify what works for you and what needs to change, and then develop a strategy to go forward. You'll create measurable goals and devise ways to achieve them. Together, you and Karen will make tangible changes in your outlook, perspective, and therefore, your career.

return to top

How does Forward Options Executive Coaching work?

We offer a complimentary coaching session to help you decide whether Forward Options Executive Coaching works for you. Following this initial consultation, if you decide to commit to increased productivity and fulfillment at work by working with Karen, we will create a schedule of sessions, by phone or in person if New York City is convenient to you.

You can opt for weekly or bi-weekly Executive Coaching sessions, each of which lasts an hour. With each conference, you will design a specific action plan to implement. In between sessions, you will make individual progress and are always welcome to contact Karen by email or quick phone calls. Growth occurs during the conferences and in the periods between sessions if you use the goals and principles discussed during your conferences to guide you forward.

return to top

What makes Forward Options Executive Coaching different?

Forward Options Executive Coaching focuses specifically on the experiences of women. Karen has studied hundreds of successful and happy women all over the world to create strategies specifically for females. In addition to her studies, Karen overcame many challenges of her own throughout her career and has collected perspectives from several successful women.

Karen's unique perspective of the challenges we go through as women allow her to provide you with insights and support tailored specifically to you.

return to top

For whom does Forward Options Executive Coaching work?

Karen can help you to design a comprehensive plan to create increased success and fulfillment and to enhance your performance at work. She will help you increase your personal satisfaction and help you overcome your weak points. Karen will bring out your best. Karen specializes in the fields below:

• Adjusting to a new work environment (ie promotion transition)
• Honing their communication and leadership skills
• Reassessing purpose, and aligning that purpose with company objectives
• Setting priorities and achieving measurable goals

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Can Forward Options Executive Coaching help me?

Consider the following questions:

• Do you lack confidence in your abilities?
• Do you need help making important decisions?
• Do you feel overwhelmed by the magnitude of your responsibilities?
• Are you having trouble communicating your opinions and ideas?
• Do you need work and life balance?
• Do you find that there is no one around you to share your frustrations?
• Do you need an objective/non-competitive forum to discuss issues?
• Are you frustrated with certain situations at work?
• Do you need to cultivate your leadership skills?

If you've answered yes to any of the questions above, the answer is yes; Forward Options Executive Coaching can help you. Karen actively listens to your needs and desires, helps you to figure out the gap between where you are and where you want to be, and collaborates with you to create a plan to bridge that gap.

return to top

How is Forward Options Coaching different from other executive coaching programs?

Karen Elizaga takes a holistic approach to executive coaching. While focusing on the business goals and challenges at hand, Karen also encourages her clients to explore their personal values, challenges and behaviors. She believes that focusing on the personal is part and parcel of the focus on upward career trajectory. Together, you will explore your self-esteem and self-love and consider how it affects your performance, positively or otherwise, at work.

return to top

What commitment do I need to make?

Forward Options offers one complimentary session to assess your individual needs. Afterwards, most clients maintain a coaching relationship for three to six months. Then, many clients schedule follow-up sessions to reassess their progress and to work through additional obstacles.

return to top

How much does Forward Options Executive Coaching cost?

The cost of Forward Options Executive Coaching varies based on the number and length of the sessions you opt for per month. We will make every attempt to find a structure that works for you. Email us to set up a complimentary session and to set up a plan for you.

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"To be very honest, I had no idea what I was doing there, at first. I hadn’t really been informed of what I had gotten myself into. But I’m now beyond glad that I went through the program." BRITANNY