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Top 10 Reasons to Hire a Coach |
There are over 100 things that
you can work on with your Personal/Professional Coach, but here
are the Top 10.
Note: When you see the word Coach or well-trained coach below, it
refers to a Coach University-trained coach, given that many of the
mentioned coaching skills and client programs are exclusive to Coach
University and thus exclusive to Coach University trained coaches.
- You will set far better goals that motivate you in a
healthy way.
Did you have Goal Setting 101 in high school? Probably not. Enter
the coach, an expert in helping you to identify and set the goals
that you really want, not the ones that are "shoulds," pipedreams
that you've been recycling or that mirror the goals of your parents,
society or Madison Avenue. Choosing the right goals for you is
an art and the coach takes the necessary time to help you clarify
your personal values, so that you have something really solid
on which to develop your goals. Value-based goals are naturally
motivating, but it takes good coaching to get to these.
- You'll accomplish goals and tasks and projects much
more quickly.
One of the reasons that people hire a coach is to save themselves
time. Working with a coach, they learn how to be far more effective,
efficient and productive in everything that they do, including
their job/business or personal projects. We humans just aren't
that naturally effective, even if we think that we are. The coach
has the tools and techniques to share with their clients so that
things get done in half the time. (Even the coaching process is
efficient -- on the phone, 1/2 hour a week, reasonable fee.)
- You'll make fewer mistakes in your business life or
in your personal life.
The old model of learning from your mistakes has deteriorated
to be more like: How else will you learn if you don't make mistakes?
Too expensive, in our view. With a coach, you have a third eye,
someone who's been there and who has coached others in your situation,
and an expert in getting the job done with the minimum of fuss
(called learning curve, mistakes, errors in judgment, wrong tunnels,
etc.). The costs (emotional, financial, time) of making mistakes
has gotten very expensive in the past decade. A single mistake
can ruin you in today's hyper-paced business environment. Some
clients use their coach as an inexpensive insurance policy.
- You'll move up to the next level of your professional
and personal life.
Almost everybody is moving up the ladder of business success,
personal development, awareness and well being. The 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 it and help you get started
on your path.
- You'll reduce the number of problems you have and better
resolve the problems 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 -- a.k.a., becoming a Problem-Free Zone (PFZ).
This is not a joke. Being a PFZ is becoming even more important
along the path of sustainable success. You cannot afford to have
problems, period. Life's too short and problems are too expensive.
A well-trained coach can help you become a PFZ. A well-trained
coach is a PFZ herself.
- You'll likely make more money in your career, profession
or business.
Clients don't keep paying their coaches just for the fun of it.
Coaching, like every other professional service, needs to improve
the financial bottom line and it does. Coaches are trained to
help clients to leverage their ability to make money, i.e., getting
a raise, choosing a better career, starting a business, improving
profitability, adding more value to their customers, proper pricing,
productivity and others. Sure, coaching is personal, but it almost
always includes a strong financial aspect.
- 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?
- You'll be much more effective and influential with others:
family, business and personal relationships.
Communication makes life, life. A coach is an expert communicator
and trains clients on how to come across better, relate well with
others, listen aggressively, influence, coach, motivate and support
others. There are over 100 communication and listening skills
that clients can learn from a coach.
- 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
on its way out. 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 is called attraction
and Coach University wrote the book on it (called Irresistible
Attraction). It's real. It works. And it will replace much of
the promotion, marketing, selling, seducing and other very expensive
budget items. Remember that the world (a.k.a. consumers) is rapidly
eliminating virtually all waste and inefficiencies in how business
is conducted, products are sold and how services are delivered.
Selling and mass marketing, while certainly still very effective
right now, is on the hit list. Attraction is the next generation
of selling and the well-trained coach can help you and your business
get on this track immediately.
- 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 Americans seeking to create a much better life
for themselves 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, church on Sundays, 3 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.
A coach has been trained in the Life Design process and has already
made the kind of design changes in their life that his/her clients
are just now beginning to make.
Submitted by Thomas J. Leonard, who can be reached at thomas@thomasleonard.com,
or visited on the web at http://thomasleonard.com/
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