I walk down one side of a busy street that has no sidewalks. Wading through wet grass, stepping over tree roots and maneuvering around landscaping, I make my way slowly until I come to a sign for a building with multiple offices. There are at least six businesses listed on the sign. One of them catches my eye — Adventure & Victory. Is it some sort of adventure travel agency proclaiming victory if clients mastered a certain skill? Maybe it’s some sort of gym creating physical adventures where well-muscled athletes claim victory. Or possibly a place for children where they can go on imaginary adventures and be victorious heroes. According to its website adventurevictory.org, it is none of these things.
According to LinkedIn, Jacqueline Johnson is the founder of Adventure & Victory. She is a speaker and transformational coach who provides educational life skills programs that empower low-income disadvantaged women and their children with the tools needed to reach their full potential as contributing members of society. In addition, her nonprofit organization has a Dream Resale store which provides name brand clothing at dream prices.
Per the Adventure & Victory website, Johnson is a 21st century marketplace prayer leader, author, certified life coach and an ambassador of hope who is making a difference in her own unique way. She is a mentor and a minister of hope who has been under the tutelage of Bishop T.D. Jakes at the Potter’s House for 17 years. She is making a power-packed difference in the community by providing life skills and community outreach events. She has been awarded the Unsung Heroes award by Ebony magazine and Pine-Sol.
Adventure & Victory was founded in 1993 by Jacqueline Johnson with a passion for women and their families to come together and function together in love and unity. The mission of Adventure & Victory Inc. is to provide quality educational life skills, leadership and on-the-job training programs that empower low- and moderate-income women and their families, providing them the tools needed to reach their full potential as contributing members of society. Adventure & Victory provides men, women and their families the opportunity to participate in activities that enhance positive family growth, workforce development and the ability to seek, secure and hold long-term employment. The vision of Adventure & Victory is to enable women and their families to bridge their lives from hopelessness to hopefulness through a flourishing multifunction educational facility.
In Johnson’s Empowerment Moment Masterclass, you will:
- Learn how to create a meaningful life right now.
- Learn how to get results by sharing your story.
- Learn how to be bold and walk in your untapped confidence.
- Learn to create stability and sustainability in your life.
In addition, you will:
- Receive a more objective view of yourself, so you can make necessary changes.
- Gain the confidence you need to bounce back from setbacks.
- Experience synergy, working with a team together which gives you faster results.
- Enhance communication skills.
- Have accountability, so you “stay on course” and actually make something happen for yourself.
- Learn communications and technology fit together like a hand-in-glove.
- Become financially stable and self-sufficient.
Sponsors
Sponsors include Blackjack Pizza & Salads, Chick-Fil-A, Dallas Capital Bank, Dare to Dream Children’s Foundation, Exceptional Women Fellowship & Networking, Genesis Solutions, Inwood National Bank, Jason’s Deli, JP & Associates Realtors, K. B. Polk Center for Academically Talented & Gifted, Lucky Construction Inc., Pegasus Bank, Raising Cane’s, Rejoice Musical Soul Food, Spring Valley Dental Associates, Target Corp., Top Drawer Organizing, Vader Bebee Show, Walmart, Weir’s Furniture and many more.
According to Wikipedia, coaching is a form of development in which an experienced person, called a coach, supports a learner or client in achieving a specific personal or professional goal by providing training and guidance. The learner is sometimes called a coachee. Occasionally, coaching may mean an informal relationship between two people, of whom one has more experience and expertise than the other and offers advice and guidance as the latter learns; but coaching differs from mentoring by focusing on specific tasks or objectives, as opposed to more general goals or overall development.
Origins
The first use of the term "coach" in connection with an instructor or trainer arose around 1830 in Oxford University slang for a tutor who "carried" a student through an exam. The word "coaching" thus identified a process used to transport people from where they are to where they want to be. The first use of the term in relation to sports came in 1861.
History
Historically the development of coaching has been influenced by many fields of activity, including adult education, the Human Potential Movement in the 1960s, large-group awareness training groups such as Erhard Seminars Training which was founded in 1971, leadership studies, personal development and various subfields of psychology. The University of Sydney offered the world's first coaching psychology unit of study in January 2000, and various academic associations and academic journals for coaching psychology were established in subsequent years.
Applications
Coaches use a range of communication skills — such as targeted restatements, listening, questioning, clarifying, etc. — to help clients shift their perspectives and thereby discover different approaches to achieve their goals. These skills can be used in almost all types of coaching. In this sense, coaching is a form of "meta-profession" that can apply to supporting clients in any human endeavor, ranging from their concerns in health, personal, professional, sport, social, family, political, spiritual dimensions, etc. There may be some overlap between certain types of coaching activities. Coaching approaches are also influenced by cultural differences.
Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder coaching
The concept of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder coaching was introduced in 1994 by psychiatrists Edward M. Hallowell and John J. Ratey in their book “Driven to Distraction.” ADHD coaching is a specialized type of life coaching that uses techniques designed to assist individuals with ADHD by mitigating the effects of executive function deficit, which is a common impairment for people with ADHD. Coaches work with clients to help them better manage time, organize, set goals and complete projects. In addition to assisting clients to understand the impact ADHD has had on their lives, coaches can help clients develop "workaround" strategies to deal with specific challenges, and determine and use individual strengths. Coaches also help clients get a better grasp of what reasonable expectations are for them as individuals since people with ADHD "brain wiring" often seem to need external "mirrors" for self-awareness about their potential despite their impairment.
Business and executive coaching
Business coaching is a type of human resource development for executives, members of management, teams and leadership. It provides positive support, feedback and advice on an individual or group basis to improve personal effectiveness in the business setting, often focusing on behavioral changes through psychometrics or 360-degree feedback. Business coaching is also called executive coaching, corporate coaching or leadership coaching. Coaches help their clients advance towards specific professional goals. These include career transition, interpersonal and professional communication, performance management, organizational effectiveness, managing career and personal changes, developing executive presence, enhancing strategic thinking, dealing effectively with conflict and building an effective team within an organization. An industrial-organizational psychologist may work as an executive coach.
Business coaching is not restricted to external experts or providers. Many organizations expect their senior leaders and middle managers to coach their team members to reach higher levels of performance, increased job satisfaction, personal growth and career development. Research studies suggest that executive coaching has positive effects both within workplace performance as well as personal areas outside the workplace, with some differences in the impact of internal and external coaches.
In some countries, there is no certification or licensing required to be a business or executive coach, and membership of a coaching organization is optional. Further, standards and methods of training coaches can vary widely between coaching organizations. Many business coaches refer to themselves as consultants, a broader business relationship than one which exclusively involves coaching. Research findings from a systematic review indicate that effective coaches are known for having integrity, support for those they coach, communication skills and credibility.
In the workplace, leadership coaching has been shown to be effective for increasing employee confidence in expressing their own ideas. Research findings in a systematic review demonstrate that coaching can help reduce stress in the workplace.
Career coaching or counseling
Career coaching focuses on work and career and is similar to career counseling. Career counseling is a type of advice-giving and support provided by career counselors to their clients, to help the clients manage their journey through life, learning and work changes. This includes career exploration, making career choices, managing career changes, lifelong career development and dealing with other career-related issues. There is no agreed definition of career counseling worldwide, mainly due to conceptual, cultural and linguistic differences. However, the terminology of “career counseling” typically denotes a professional intervention which is conducted either one-on-one or in a small group. Career counseling is related to other types of counseling e.g., marriage or clinical counseling. What unites all types of professional counseling is the role of practitioners, who combine giving advice on their topic of expertise with counseling techniques that support clients in making complex decisions and facing difficult situations.
Career coaching is not to be confused with life coaching, which concentrates on personal development. Another common term for a career coach is "career guide."
Christian coaching
A Christian coach is not a pastor or counselor — although the coach may also be qualified in those disciplines — but someone who has been professionally trained to address specific coaching goals from a distinctively Christian or biblical perspective. Christian counseling is distinct from secular counseling. According to the International Association of Biblical Counselors, Biblical counseling "seeks to carefully discover those areas in which a Christian may be disobedient to the principles and commands of Scripture and to help him learn how to lovingly submit to God's will." Christian counselors, therefore, approach psychology through the lens of the Bible. They see the Bible as the source of all truth.
Financial coaching
Financial coaching is a relatively new form of coaching that focuses on helping clients overcome their struggle to attain specific financial goals and aspirations they have set for themselves. Financial coaching is a one-on-one relationship in which the coach works to provide encouragement and support aimed at facilitating attainment of the client's economic plans. A financial coach, also called money coach, typically focuses on helping clients to restructure and reduce debt, reduce spending, develop saving habits and develop fiscal discipline. In contrast, the term financial adviser refers to a broader range of professionals who typically provide clients with financial products and services. Although early research links financial coaching to improvements in client outcomes, much more rigorous analysis is necessary before any causal linkages can be established.
Health and wellness coaching
Health coaching is becoming recognized as a new way to help individuals "manage" their illnesses and conditions, especially those of a chronic nature. The coach will use special techniques, personal experience, expertise and encouragement to assist the coachee in bringing his/her behavioral changes about while aiming for lowered health risks and decreased health care costs. The National Society of Health Coaches has differentiated the term health coach from wellness coach. According to the NSHC, health coaches are qualified "to guide those with acute or chronic conditions and/or moderate to high health risk," and wellness coaches provide guidance and inspiration "to otherwise 'healthy' individuals who desire to maintain or improve their overall general health status."
Homework coaching
Homework coaching focuses on equipping a student with the study skills required to succeed academically. This approach is different from regular tutoring which typically seeks to improve a student's performance in a specific subject.
Life coaching
Life coaching is the process of helping people identify and achieve personal goals through developing skills and attitudes that lead to self-empowerment. Life coaching generally deals with issues such as work-life balance and career changes, and often occurs outside the workplace setting. Systematic academic psychological engagement with life coaching dates from the 1980s.
Sports coaching
In sports, a coach is an individual that provides supervision and training to the sports team or individual players. Sports coaches are involved in administration, athletic training, competition coaching and representation of the team and the players. A survey in 2019 of the literature on sports coaching found an increase in the number of publications and most articles featured a quantitative research approach. Sports psychology emerged from the 1890s.
Vocal coach
A vocal coach, also known as a voice coach — though this term often applies to those working with speech and communication rather than singing, is a music teacher, usually a piano accompanist, who helps singers prepare for a performance, often also helping them to improve their singing technique and take care of and develop their voice, but is not the same as a singing teacher — also called a "voice teacher." Vocal coaches may give private music lessons or group workshops or masterclasses to singers. They may also coach singers who are rehearsing on stage or who are singing during a recording session. Vocal coaches are used in both classical music and in popular music styles such as rock and gospel. While some vocal coaches provide a range of instruction on singing techniques, others specialize in areas such as breathing techniques or diction and pronunciation.
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