DUKE PROFESSIONAL AND PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
COACHING SERVICES


Coaching enhances your professional and personal life by empowering you to:
  • explore career and life goals
  • capitalize upon your strengths
  • pursue excellence
  • develop your inner resilience
  • refine and advance leadership skills
  • take risks to produce top results
  • achieve personal and family balance
  • reduce stress
Professional Coaching assists you in refining those behaviors and actions in the workplace that enhance your professional role, goals, strategic actions and directions.

Professional Coaching produces solutions that are tailored to your professional and executive situation. The coaching relationship produces long-term learning, personal satisfaction and substantial improvement evident in increased productivity across your span of influence.

Personal and Life Coaching helps you reflect on your distinctive situation and enables you to develop or alter aspects of your life that are creating strain and stress and leading to dissatisfaction or unhappiness. Personal and life coaching provides a supportive environment in which you can sort through your personal goals, values and interests in multiple areas of your life. Areas in which we can provide life enhancement coaching include relationships, spiritual well being, health wellness, career development, transitions, stress management, work/life balance, as well as examining your assets to increase your life satisfaction.

Virtual Group Coaching applies the coaching process using telephonic groups. Topics can include such areas as parenting, career transition, relationship enhancement, post divorce issues, transitioning into retirement, spirituality and life balance, and caretaker support.

In these virtual groups, you call into a bridge line to connect with other participants and a leader (called a virtual group coach). These time limited educational groups offer you the support, input and wisdom of other group members. In the convenience of your home or work setting you can connect with other people experiencing similar situations and benefit from the energy and knowledge of a dynamic group.

The Coaching Experience
Coaching helps you achieve results and sustain life-changing behaviors in your life and career. By employing a holistic view of your life, coaching emphasizes producing actions that uncover your unique qualities and talents. Your coach will help you identify specific actions to facilitate maximum growth, success and satisfaction. As you follow through on agreed upon steps between coaching sessions, you will fulfill your goals and experience a renewed sense of accomplishment. Each coaching experience is designed to accommodate your personal values, goals and motivations.

Unlike therapy, which addresses past issues and situations, coaching focuses on the present with a look toward the future and what you want to accomplish to reduce stress, sustain a healthy lifestyle, and achieve success.

Time and Frequency of Coaching and Virtual Group Sessions
Coaching can take place telephonically or in person, based upon your schedule. Each session is tailored to your individual needs and the pace with which you are comfortable.

Coaching sessions are scheduled weekly, biweekly or once a month dependent on the type of coaching requested. A personalized, customized program can be designed to meet your specific lifestyle needs. Our coaching system conveniently allows you to fit the coaching around your schedule and desire for advancement.

Why Duke PPDP for Coaching?
The staff at Duke PPDP offers a wealth of experience and skills to enrich and add value to the coaching process. Each coach has an advanced degree in the social sciences and an extensive background in human relationships and workplace issues, as well as communication styles, personality, corporate culture and change management. In addition, each coach has skills in mind-body health, resilience, stress management and assessment and problem-solving. Because of this depth of experience, Duke PPDP is able to offer a coaching experience that helps you meet your goals while utilizing the best wisdom in the field. The staff at Duke PPDP offers a wealth of experience and skills to enrich and add value to the coaching process. Each coach has an advanced degree in the social sciences and an extensive background in human relationships and workplace issues, as well as communication styles, personality, corporate culture and change management. In addition, each coach has skills in mind-body health, resilience, stress management and assessment and problem-solving. Because of this depth of experience, Duke PPDP is able to offer a coaching experience that helps you meet your goals while utilizing the best wisdom in the field.

To schedule a coaching session or to find out more about coaching sessions and coaching groups,
please contact Elaine Hughes or Melissa Dement at 919-286-1244 or 1-800-336-3853.


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Duke Occupational Mental Health Programs
Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Department of Community and Family Medicine
Duke University Medical Center