WHY EVERYONE
NEEDS TO HAVE A
Coach
Working with a coach offers a number of powerful benefits. Regardless of your aims, dedicating time to personal or professional development helps improve confidence as well as a sense of self-worth. Coaching can provide clarity, direc- tion and focus. If you’re struggling to make a change, coaching can help raise self-awareness to both understand and change certain behaviours.
If it’s difficult to motivate yourself and make things happen in your life or work, coaching can offer accountability and help you define your purpose. And finally if you simply need to learn a new skill, coaching can help accelerate your learn- ing. However, coaching relies on your commitment to the process and an open, honest relationship with your coach.
A recent Ted Talk points out – the one characteristic common to all high performing individuals, from executives to athletes—is the fact that they all have a coach. Yet, nearly two-thirds of executives of the world don’t. In fact, the majority, over 60% of individuals are embarrassed to consider, let alone ask for coaching. “Why do you need coaching? What’s wrong with you?” In my experience the people that seek coaching aren’t the ones with something wrong, to the contrary, there’s something very right about them — and
it’s enabling them to leap ahead.
At many small companies, chief executives are the only people who truly understand their organizations, and every major decision falls on their shoulders. Seventeenth-century merchants turned to “cunning men,” or wizards, for guidance; entrepreneurs today turn to their more modern counterparts: executive coaches. Coaches generally focus on one thing: improving your performance as a leader. They do this in much the same way sports coaches work with athletes: by helping you make the most of your natural abilities and find ways to work around your weaknesses. A good coach will make sure you meet your commitments, behave like a grownup, and otherwise stay out of your own way–things nearly all of us can use a little help with.
Executives at large corporations have long relied on coaches. But entrepreneurs arguably need them more–mostly because they’re so isolated. “Entrepreneurs start out excited about being able to chart their own direction,” , many entrepreneurs find that they actually miss having a boss–or at least they miss having a trusted adviser with whom they can brainstorm, set goals, confess their anxieties, and work through the day-to-day challenges. Think about the best boss you ever had (or dreamed of having). “A great coach can provide you with similar resources,” The most important thing a coach can do is help you execute a plan.” They also began A coach can help you divide tasks into those needed to do by you and those that could be delegated.
The world's most successful people, from athletes to business people, have coaches to help accelerate their success!
10 REASONS WHY
YOU NEED TO HIRE A
Coach
