What is Coaching?

 Coaching is like having a personal trainer for your life!

Coaching is quickly becoming one of the leading tools that successful people use to live extraordinary lives.  Through regular coaching sessions, clients identify what is most important to them and align their thoughts, words and actions accordingly.  Coaches work with clients to identify what they want personally and professionally and to support them in achieving those goals.  Having a life you love starts with gaining clarity on values, enabling more meaningful choices and consistent action.  Coaching offers a means for more balance, joy, intimacy, energy, financial abundance, focus and action in every area of your life.

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How is coaching different from  consulting?

Unlike consulting, which generally results in giving the client standardised solutions, coaching is more personalised, action-oriented and focuses primarily on the present and future.  Coaches enable clients to determine their own "answers" through the work done in the coaching partnership.

Who works with a coach?

Entrepreneurs, business owners, professionals and people in transition are some of the people who typically work with a coach.  Regardless of their professional endeavours or place in life, clients have one thing in common: they are all successful, resourceful and intelligent individuals who want to get even more out of their lives.

What professional athlete hasn't used a coach to win?  Every elite athlete understands the value of having someone work directly with him, pointing out things he can't see, encouraging and challenging him to achieve his greatest potential.

Why use a Coach?

Why is coaching so popular today? There are several reasons:

People are less willing to wait for 'then' or 'the future' to make the most of their life. Good or bad, people want success, happiness, joy and achievement now; and they want it faster than ever. They will hire a coach to accelerate this process and reach their goals faster.

People are acutely interested in being sustainably happy. Finding that special job, lifestyle, new skill set or meaningful project is reason enough to hire a coach. They want help in finding a compelling vision for their future and move forward very, very quickly, even if it means big changes in their life.

People want to get ahead faster at work or in their business. A life-coach or business coach can act as mentor, catalyst and source of support; whatever the client needs to get them to where they want to go.

The following is taken from the "Top 10 Reasons To Hire A Coach", by the late Thomas J. Leonard, Founder of Coachville.

1. You will set far better goals that motivate you.

Your coach will help you to identify and set the goals that you really want, not the shoulds, pipedreams and goals of your parents or society. Your coach will help you clarify your personal values, so that you have something really solid on which to develop your goals. When your goals are based on the things you value most, they are more naturally motivating.

2. Accomplish goals, tasks and projects much more quickly.

You can learn how to be far more effective, efficient and productive in everything that you do.

3. Make fewer mistakes in your business life or in your personal life.

With a coach, you don't have to learn everything from your mistakes. This takes too long and is expensive! Mistakes are more costly nowadays what with the greater pace of change. Your coach will keep an eye on you and help you make better decisions, reducing the risk of mistakes. Working with a coach can be like taking out insurance against making mistakes!

 4. Move up to the next level of your professional and personal life.

Almost everybody is moving up a ladder of some sort - business success, personal development, awareness and emotional balance, for example. Your coach can help you see where you are right now and point out ways to grow and get where you want to get to. Or, if you're not even on the ladder, the coach can guide you to the right one, or at least the one that's leaning against the right wall, and help you get started on your path (please excuse the mixed metaphors!).

5. Reduce the number of problems you have and better resolve those that are left.

The first step in solving a problem is to ask yourself why you have this problem at all. The second step is to ask yourself why you have problems at all. The third step is to get on track to having no problems - being a Problem Free Zone (PFZ). This is not a joke. Being a PFZ is becoming even more important along the path of sustainable success. Life's too short and problems are too expensive.

6. Make more money in your career, profession or business.

Clients don't keep paying their coaches just for the fun of it. Although money isn't everything, coaching can help you to improve the financial bottom line. You can work with your coach on, for example, getting a raise, choosing a better career, starting a business, improving profitability, adding more value to your customers, proper pricing, productivity and more.

7. You'll be a lot happier and this happiness will last.

Coaches know how to help you to reduce stress, integrate all aspects of your life, simplify or downshift, and reorient around what makes you the happiest. What good is increased productivity and profitability if you're not happy?

8. You'll be much more effective and influential with others: family, business and personal relationships.

A coach can help you to come across better, relate well with others, listen aggressively, influence, coach, motivate and support others.

9. You'll become much more attractive to others - on the inside and on the outside.

Selling, as a profession and as a proven technique/process, is having to change dramatically. Why? Because humans are getting better at choosing for themselves and buying better. Humans will respond less to advertising and selling techniques and instead be drawn to a product or service and they will be more likely drawn because of who is offering the product or service. This process has been called attraction - and it's real. It works. And it will replace much of the promotion, marketing, selling, seducing and other very expensive budget items. Attraction is the next generation of selling and the well-trained coach can help you and your business get on this track immediately.

10. You'll have a better life, not just a better lifestyle.

The term "Quality of Life" has become overused in the past few years, but the trend of seeking to create a much better life is accelerating. In fact, people are re-examining what they had assumed that a good life was (married, 2.3 kids, nice car, secure job, 4 weeks of vacation a year) and are now creating their own life, often breaking the rules and flying in the face of conventional wisdom in the process.

Why coaching works

You may be thinking to yourself "I don't need to hire a coach to make me successful when there are tons of books out there that will tell me everything I need to know".  If only it was that simple, we would have a world full of happy, fulfilled and prosperous entrepreneurs who revel in making tough decisions, can plan successfully for the future and know how to manage their staff without the slightest bit of doubt as to the outcome.  Sadly, I haven't come across too many of these people, but what I do know is that all of the business owners with whom I have worked, have needed the reassurance and guidance of an experienced mentor and coach to finally make important headway into their future success.

Most of us have been conditioned from birth and throughout our life journey to believe certain things that sometimes help us in life but often hinder us instead.  These beliefs are commonly referred to as self limiting beliefs and they will generally stop us from making the kind of decisions that we need to make to move forward not only in our personal lives but also in our business and professional lives.  When you work with a coach, they will help you to identify, challenge and overcome these beliefs that are holding you back from the success you desire.

Setting Goals 

This sounds so simple and yet is one of the most difficult things to follow through with on a day to day basis.  Let me ask you this.  How many New Years resolutions have you made in your life and how many have you followed through to a successful outcome?  If you are one of the many, the answer to that question is "no where near as many as you would have liked!".  Hundreds if not thousands of books and self help articles have been written about setting goals.  It's not really all that difficult to do.  If you can use pen and paper you can set goals!  The real challenge lies in the following through and this is where having a great coach working with you makes you stand out from the crowd.  It is what your coach will do for you that you probably will never do for yourself.  Your coach will make you accountable for the goals you set and then help you with the plan you will need to follow through.  Let's face it - a book just can't do this for you...ever!

Mentoring

"You just don't know what you just don't know!".  I love this saying because it helps small business owners realise that they can't know it all.  It is so important to have someone working with them who has an extensive background in business to help them to avoid all the nasty pitfalls that are awaiting the unwary.  Good business coaching, I believe, comes from a combination of traditional coaching, mentoring and consulting combined into one package.

My belief is that if you are really serious about moving ahead faster and smarter in your business, then invest in coaching NOW.  Nothing will work as well as coaching to drive you towards business success.  Why not give me a call or send me an email today because all you have to lose is the price of a phone call but you have so much more to gain.  Isn't the prospect of a far better and more prosperous life worth the zero risk of a phone call?  

 

        All the strength you need to achieve anything is within you.  Sarah Henderson
 
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