About now your head should be spinning with all types of unanswered questions. Who, what, when, why, and how should be plummeting around in your brain. I’ve listed the most common questions in this section, and if your question’s not there, don’t worry: click around on this website or contact me!

• How do I get started?
  How do you find a qualified business coach who will understand you and your business? How do you start a relationship with the business coach you suspect may be the right “fit” for you? All answers start with conversation. Find out more about the process of finding the right coach for you here, take the quiz or contact Garry Oskamp here.
  
  
• What is coaching?
  Coaching is the partnering with you in order to move to or attain a position, plateau, or goal to which you would not have access alone.
  
  
• What is executive coaching?
  Executive coaching is the partnering with a company executive to cause the company to increase revenue and the executive to gain time.
  
  
• What are the benefits of coaching?
  The benefits of coaching are clarity of vision, definitive purpose, and the self-accountability of progress through measureable goal achievement.
  
  
• What are the features of coaching?
  The features of coaching may be addressed in two ways. First, the foundation of the features is in the alignment of client actions with client wishes. The client holds his/her own feet to the fire to accomplish whatever it is that the client says he/she wishes to accomplish. Second, and in a procedural fashion, the features of coaching may be described as how the client-coach meetings occur. This requires conversation, but in general, please know that I offer face-to-face and virtual coaching sessions. If you select face-to-face, I come to you, and coach you in your environment….office, home, neutral location. Virtual sessions are by telephone and are scheduled during the business day at a time which is mutually satisfactory to both of us. You, as client, place a telephone call to me, as your coach. I do not move a client time in order to please another client. If you have an established time, that time is yours until you choose another. Fees vary according to the type of coaching selected.
  
  
• How much do you charge?
  Again, fees vary according to the type of coaching selected. My fees range between $500 -$2,500/month depending on client needs.
  
  
• What determines the cost?
  As a general rule, the more time required, the higher the fee. Corporations usually require their executives to remain on-site, necessitating my traveling to the executive thereby increasing costs to the organization. However, inasmuch as I work with CEO’s, CFO’s, and other C-level officers, corporations tend to favor paying my rate to travel and keep their executive team in place. If you can benefit from virtual coaching, fees are somewhat less.
  
  
• How do retainers work?
  Retainer-based businesses require payment for a service at the beginning of the period of service. For example, I almost always work by the month. At the beginning of a month, the corporation deposits the monthly fee into my account by bank routing number, or the individual has his/her check in my hand before the month begins.
  
  I do not take a contract as do many coaches. Indeed, many coaches require the taking of a contract from, at least, 6 months to a year. I do not. It is my philosophy that we work together as long as it benefits both of us to do so. When our time together is over, we’ll know it. The legal binding of one to the other is not my idea of how a mutually supportive and growing relationship should work.
  
  
• Do you respond to RFP’s?
  Yes, but I must know the individual requesting the RFP or be introduced to the individual by someone I know and trust. I do not respond to mass RFP requests.
  
  
• How do you work with multiple coachees?
  As each coachee is added to the mix, we gain something and we lose something. What we gain is new and fresh ideas from another person. What we lose is unity of purpose and direction — Why? — because we all have opinions and those opinions are seldom or never the same as ours. How I work with added participants is I increase my fee FOR EACH PERSON ADDED. Why? — because too many cooks spoil the stew.
  
  
• Does Garry do all the work?
  NO! Garry has a virtual assistant, and many document processing, message taking, and office procedures are performed by the VA. All actual coaching is performed by Garry. You will not get a junior coach or a different coach to discuss your company’s dynamics or your most closely held dreams.
  
  
• What does Garry do for fun?
  Garry rides horses, plays golf, enjoys the family 5-acre home with his wife, Diana, 4 horses, 3 dogs, 1 cat, 6 pocket parrots, and a verbose African Grey Parrot.