Propel yourself Forward With Life or Business Coaching
More and more people are nowadays becoming accustomed to the idea that businesses can be coached and effectively helped to enhance their performance, in a broad range
of business management areas. As the market is still totally unregulated many people are defining themselves coaches overnight without feeling the need of proper
training. This could have serious consequences for you and your business if you happen to hire one of these cowboys. So if you are considering using the skills of a
business coach to help you and your business to be more successful I am listing here are some questions to assess his/her experience and credibility:
what coaching qualifications do you hold?
what can I get from my business while being coached by you?
on what topics can you advise me about my business?
what areas of my business can you coach?
will I be coached on one area at a time?
in what areas do you specialise?
how long have you been coaching for?
how many clients have you coached to date?
have you coached a similar business before?
what is your background before you started coaching?
do you offer packages or do you charge on a on going basis?
Listed below are some acceptable answers you could be getting; your personal expectations will have a key role in deciding what is acceptable for you:
“I hold a Business Coaching Training Certificate from Results Coaching System” or “I qualified as a coach from the Coaching Academy”. Anybody can start selling
his/her services without really being a qualified coach: unfortunately many people are currently doing it. Having a qualification from a recognised and respectable
coaching training institution will guarantee you to be dealing with a real coach not just somebody who defines himself/herself a coach.
“anything realistically achievable that you are willing to commit time and resources to” or “it will depend on what you would like to achieve”: coaching will help you
to move from a current situation to an expected, measurable and tangible outcome. In any case the coach cannot know, before hand, what your business needs; you are
the only person that should be taking the decision about where your business should be going. Feel sound suspicious if the coach speculates on the expected outcome.
“as a coach I don’t advise, I ask questions and help you to find your own answers”: coaching is all about asking questions and not advising. A person that advises is
not a coach but perhaps a mentor, consultant or trainer.
“business coaching can help businesses owners to work on a broad range of areas, such as sales, marketing, operations, customer care, soft skills, conflict
resolution, motivation, personal performance of individuals and teams: the question is… what areas would you like to be coached on?”: the main role for the coach is to
inspire you on your decisions about what to do and ensuring that it gets done, ensuring accountability.
“I usually help my clients to set 2-3 goals in different areas to ensure of keeping them fully engaged in the business coaching process: it can happen that certain
weeks there will be more progress on one goal than another; in any case you will be involved, nearly on a daily basis, in some activities that are about your progress
toward your goals”: working on a single goal can be prone to times when no progress in being made and it can cause a drop in motivation.
“I work primarily with owners and senior managers of small and medium businesses that would like to boost their performance and take their business to the next level”:
it’s always advisable dealing with somebody that has clear idea of a specific positioning for his job.
“I have been coaching for 3 and half years, full time for the last 2”: coaching is a relatively new profession and the few top qualified coaches in the UK have been
coaching for just a bit more that ten years. Therefore 2-3 years experience can be considered a substantial and reliable level of expertise, particularly if supported
by a serious business management background.
“I worked to date with 13 businesses and on average they increased their profits by 23% in 6 months ”
“yes, a company operating in the same field and with similar size and turnover” or “I have never worked specifically with companies similar to yours: nonetheless the
fundamental of coaching and business management are the same”: while most people would expect the first answer to be ideal the second one fits perfectly a coaching
scenario. If you consider that coaching is all about you and your business, without suggestions or advises, the hands on experience with a similar company is not as
relevant as you might expect.
“I have over 15 years of management experience in junior, senior and board positions in small to large enterprises”: It is essential for a business coach to have some
solid hands-on experience in running businesses in a senior role. Ideally a mix of experience in different sectors and sizes of companies will help the coach to have
a richer background that will enable him/her to be more adaptable to your business. This kind of experience helps the coach to bond quickly and naturally with the
client because they can speak the same business jargon.
“I offer several packages like business, executive and personal coaching based on 12 sessions developed over 3 to 6 months”: open ended contracts, where you start one
day and don’t know when you finish, are reflecting the working methodology of therapists: they are also encouraging the coach to keep you engaged as long as possible
in order to make more money off you.
Life or Business Coaching is designed for people that are truly ready, motivated and committed to create a successful life for themselves, or ready to take their
business to a new level of success. A life or business coach is skilled in helping you make dramatic improvements every area of your personal or business life and
holding you accountable for the changes you say you are committed to making.
Ten years ago, coaching was considered the new “fad” in personal and business development but now everyone from Fortune 500 executives to homemakers and small-business
owners are taking advantage of the power in having someone on your team, in your corner…so you don’t sit on the bench.
A Coach is not a therapist. Although many Coaches are consultants, a true Coach is more than a consultant…a Coach is also a friend who can give you the “tough love”
you need to make the hard decisions in your personal or business life. A Coach helps you focus on both the big picture and the task at hand so you can reach your end
goals in a manageable, organized and methodical way.
A Coach is committed to your success ALMOST as much as you are (Hint: your Coach should NEVER be more committed to your goal than you are!). Your Coach is your
personal expert, consultant, motivator, mastermind partner and cheerleader, all wrapped up in one powerful package, to help you realize your highest potential!
Most Coaches specialize but many are skilled in a number of areas. For example, a Life Coach may be focused on people in transition in their lives, whether career
changes, divorce, loss of a loved one, etc. Business Coaches may be specialists too, perhaps focused on a specific area of business or a specific type of business.
Wherever you are in your life right now, if you are committed to success, whether personal or business, a Coach can help you get to where you want to go, faster, more
efficiently, more profitably and with a greater degree of satisfaction.
While there are many ways Coaches work, there are also typically common areas of focus, particularly in setting and achieving goals. Depending on the structure, your
Coach may give you homework to complete before the next session. A good Coach will “MasterMind” with you to help come up with ideas that you might not have considered
working on your own.
There are entire books written about coaching, so I’m not going to try to cover the entire global subject of coaching in this short article, but I do want to share
with you a little bit about how I coach my clients.
MasterMind Life & Business Design Coaching (personal or business or both)
Because I have a broad and varied background and have studied and worked in a number of areas throughout my life, I have a somewhat unique approach to coaching. I can
bring insight into many areas, both on a personal, spiritual and business level and because I enjoy variety, I split my coaching time between business and life
coaching, with a focus on what I call MasterMind Life & Business Design Coaching.
My typical client is an entrepreneur, or wants to be. This could be a small business or home-based business person (or both). He or she is interested in personal
development and improvement. My clients typically have an open mind to new ideas and experiences and are willing to look at ways of creating success that might
initially be a bit foreign to them.
business coaching
Because the entrepreneur typically is in a constant state of balancing their personal and business lives, we spend time together co-creating a program to promote that
balance of work and play that is so important in the lives of busy entrepreneurs. A large part of our coaching program is the MasterMind process, which essentially is
idea development and execution. When two great minds get together working on solving the same problem, magical things can (and do) happen.
Seven Ways MasterM
ind Life Design Coaching Can Propel Your Personal or Business Life Forward Faster:
1. Help you to set realistic and achievable goals (Hint: Virtually EVERYTHING is achievable) in your business or personal life
2. Provide an organized structure to get you from where you are to where you want to be
3. MasterMind with you (and your business team, if necessary) to generate new ideas, and organized plans for executing on those ideas
4. Help you develop and automate your marketing and sales efforts for your business
5. Plug you into the MasterMind Network (yours and mine) to expand your contact base and the resources available to you
6. Hold you accountable for your own success
7. Teach you how the Law of Attraction and MasterMind process REALLY works so you can super turbo-charge your life or business by using it properly
I would like to invite you to explore coaching for yourself to determine if it is a structure that can help propel you forward in your own life.
I offer complimentary coaching sessions to serious people interested in charging forward in their lives and businesses.
Without a doubt, Coaching can be a major positive force in your life, but coaching is a relationship, so finding the right coach for you. Explore the options. There
are a lot of great coaches whose primary goal is to assist you in creating the life that you want to live. Finding the right one will be a step for which you will
thank yourself (and your coach) as you develop your greatest potential in life and business.
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