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FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions
Nielsen Executive Coaching LLC (NEC) answers the questions that people ask on a regular basis. Take time to browse this page to find out. Contact me, Jennifer Nielsen, for more information!
Yes. Joining the Collective is free at Tier 1 Leadership Launchpad. When you’re ready for more advanced leadership development and greater access to private and group coaching, you can upgrade to a paid monthly membership:Tier 2: Strategic Growth $99/mthTier 3: The Executive Suite $149/mthCan I join for free?Yes. Begin with the Community membership and deepen your support when you are ready.What is included in the free membership?The free Community membership includes selected leadership resources, community connection, and monthly group coaching.Is this only for Asian American professionals?The Collective centers Asian American, first generation, and multicultural professional experiences. Leaders who value culturally relevant and whole person leadership growth are welcome.Can I cancel a paid membership?Add the confirmed cancellation policy here. Do not publish this answer until the policy is verified.Is this advice or coaching?Jennifer will not tell you who to become. She creates space to think, adds perspective, and helps you turn your insights into action.
Professional coaching focuses on setting goals, creating outcomes and managing personal change. Sometimes it’s helpful to understand coaching by distinguishing it from other personal or organizational support professions.
Therapy: Therapy deals with healing pain, dysfunction and conflict within an individual or in relationships. The focus is often on resolving difficulties arising from the past that hamper an individual’s emotional functioning in the present, improving overall psychological functioning, and dealing with the present in more emotionally healthy ways. Coaching, on the other hand, supports personal and professional growth based on self-initiated change in pursuit of specific actionable outcomes. These outcomes are linked to personal or professional success. Coaching is future focused. While positive feelings/emotions may be a natural outcome of coaching, the primary focus is on creating actionable strategies for achieving specific goals in one’s work or personal life. The emphases in a coaching relationship are on action, accountability, and follow through.
Consulting: Individuals or organizations retain consultants for their expertise. While consulting approaches vary widely, the assumption is the consultant will diagnose problems and prescribe and, sometimes, implement solutions. With coaching, the assumption is that individuals or teams are capable of generating their own solutions, with the coach supplying supportive, discovery-based approaches and frameworks.
Mentoring: A mentor is an expert who provides wisdom and guidance based on his or her own experience. Mentoring may include advising, counseling and coaching. The coaching process does not include advising or counseling, and focuses instead on individuals or groups setting and reaching their own objectives.
Training: Training programs are based on objectives set out by the trainer or instructor. Though objectives are clarified in the coaching process, they are set by the individual or team being coached, with guidance provided by the coach. Training also assumes a linear learning path that coincides with an established curriculum. Coaching is less linear without a set curriculum.
An individual or team might choose to work with a coach for many reasons, including but not limited to the following:
Something urgent, compelling or exciting is at stake (a challenge, stretch goal or opportunity)
A gap exists in knowledge, skills, confidence
A desire to accelerate results
A lack of clarity with choices to be made
Success has started to become problematic
Work and life are out of balance, creating unwanted consequences
Core strengths need to be identified, along with how best to leverage them
Jennifer Nielsen is the owner of Nielsen Executive Coaching LLC. She is a certified executive coach with over 20 years of experience in management consulting and has industry experience in audit, accounting, financial services, technology and government services. She has managed, trained, mentored and coached diverse professionals that range from junior analyst to senior manager levels in her career. While she coaches and trains all professionals and executives, she specializes in coaching female leaders, as she has been there and understands the struggles for career progression and transition. Jennifer provides all her clients with the tools and strategies to bring them more awareness to what they desire and define as success.
She is able to help you to:
Clarify values and to discover what is most important in your work and life
Hold you accountable for the actions you decided in order to keep you focused towards the path you chose
Be used as a sounding board and serves as an objective view point to your current situation and circumstances
A minimum of at least 3 monthly sessions with Nielsen Executive Coaching LLC is needed to explore and discover what changes, improvements, or transition you want to clarify and focus into action plans.
As your executive coach, Jennifer will guide and support you in discovering the actions that you need to make the change you want but the transformation often occurs after the sessions.
Clients are held accountable for implanting the actions and change but Jennifer will be there along-side the client to witness and support the transformation!
Nielsen Executive Coaching LLC has an obligation to maintain the confidentiality of details and information revealed and discussed by clients. As a certified professional coach, Jennifer agrees to adhere to and abide by the International Coach Federation (ICF) Code of Ethics. However, clients occasionally bring up issues that may be better served by another type of professional (i.e. counselor, mentor, therapist, financial planner, etc.), in which a referral will be made to the client and may lead to a denial of services.
Yes, when working with Jennifer, you are in a partnership. There will be a coaching agreement that the client (coachee) reviews and approves before starting any program. The agreement lays out the terms and conditions of the program, costs, payment terms and the refund policy tailored for the client. Therefore, from time to time, the agreement may need to terminated early, as mutually agreed upon between Nielsen Executive Coaching LLC and the client, therefore, in which Nielsen Executive Coaching LLC will refund the remaining unused session costs back to the client, as satisfaction is always guaranteed.
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