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About Coaching |
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What is coaching?Coaching is a new profession. Coaches:
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Clients use a coach for any of the following reasons and often for a combination of these reasons:
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How is coaching different from consulting? Therapy? Sports coaching? A best friend?Consulting. Consulting. Coaching is rather like consulting. However, the coach stays with the client to help implement the new skills, changes and goals, to make sure that they really happen. Therapy. Coaching is not therapy. Coaches don't work on "issues" or get into the past or deal much with understanding human behavior. That knowledge may come as clients move forward toward personal and professional goals that will give them the life they really want, but it should not be the focus of a coaching relationship. Sports. Coaching includes several principles from sports coaching, like teamwork, going for the goal, being your best. Unlike sports coaching, most professional coaching is not competition or win/lose based. Coaches focus on strengthening their clients' skills, not on helping them beat the other team. Coaches look for win/win solutions. Best friend. A best friend is wonderful to have. But is your best friend a professional who you will trust to work with you on the most important aspects of your life and/or business? Have both - a best friend and a coach. |
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What is the basic philosophy of coaching?Simply put, it is that we humans are great, that we're all discovering what we really want, and that we can get what we want faster and more easily by having a coach who's been there and who can help us.
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Who hires a coach and why?People hire a coach because
It's as simple as that. Coaches help a client get all three, quickly. Even coaches hire coaches to coach them |
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What does a coach do?A personal coach does just what an athletic coach or music teacher does, only in a fuller and bigger way. A coach challenges you and takes the time to find out what winning in life means to you. A coach is your partner in living the life you know you can accomplish, personally and professionally. A coach is someone to hold you accountable for your life, to make sure you really do live up to your potential. No matter where you are in life, there is always a desire for more. More success, more money, closer relationships, a deeper feeling of meaning in life, etc. It is the nature of people to want to attain more, become more, be more, and we all struggle with how to get what we're looking for. Most people believe that "hard work and doing it on your own" are the keys to finding the life, success, money, or happiness that they seek. They believe that a price must be paid to attain what they want, and often that price is poor health, not having enough time to enjoy life, strained family relationships or lessened productivity. The saddest part is that, even though this effort may result in more of something, it is often not the something you had in mind, and you end up back where you started, or worse, further from your real intentions. Athletes and performers know about this trap. They know they need someone else, a trained someone else to help them set goals, discover real needs, and work effectively toward ultimate goals of excellence. So, they are willing to hire a coach or a teacher. No serious athlete or musician would expect to progress very far without one. |
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What about people who are already doing really well in their lives.Why would they need a coach?They might not need a coach. But it is helpful to find out: Are they doing what they most enjoy? Are they tolerating anything? Is life easy? Are they going to be financially independent within the next 15 years? Do they have what they most want? We've discovered that, often, people need to expect more out of their lives. A coach can help in this process. |
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What people are saying about coaching As you may know, coaching has received quite a bit of media
attention in the past several months. In fact, the emerging profession
of coaching and Coach U have been covered on the NBC Nightly News, Donahue
and CBS This Morning. They have also been featured in Newsweek and USA
Today as well as in over 100 other major media outlets. Coaching has
received this positive attention because of the success of the clients
who use a coach. In fact, here is a brief sample of what the media has
said about coaching: [Your coach] will guide you to a fuller life or a slimmer
figure. Whatever you want. Your weakness is his challenge." -- USA Today |
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Clients use a coach for any of the following reasons and often for a combination of these reasons:
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| So, as you can see, coaching is for those individuals and groups who see the value in having a confidential partner to prompt them to stay focused thus resulting in reduced stress and more self confidence as goals are successfully attained. | |||
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