Feb

You Can Achieve Enduring Success and Permanent Prosperity Through Coaching

What Exactly is Coaching?

To gain the full benefit from any coaching experience you must understand what coaching is all about. Knowing what to expect and how to expect it to be delivered is simply good stewardship of your resources. Also you’ll be able to maximize the experience of working with a coach if you understand the purpose of coaching.

What Coaching is NOT

Coaching is easily confused with its counterparts consulting, mentoring, or therapy. But, it’s none of those – though coaching incorporates some aspects of each of those modalities.

Coaching is not Consulting. Clients hire consultants when they need to identify problems and formulate solutions to fix them. Clients are aware of the problems and are seeking help in discovering the source and the solutions. Consultants are experts in what needs to be done, and once they come up with a plan for the client, the consultant’s job is usually complete.

Coaches view their clients as being the “experts” in their own lives and businesses, and work along side them to help implement a plan they both create. And that’s why coaches do not tell clients give answers, but instead, facilitate for the client the discovery of their own answers. This infuses power in the relationship in that the client is getting tools to build a permanent prosperity and an enduring success strategy for their own life. People get far more excited about and follow through on ideas they help develop rather than those that are offered to them by someone else. The coach’s expertise is in providing guidance, tools, and methods for clients to improve their own ability to implement solutions, now and in the future.

Consultants identify problems and formulate solutions; coaches provide tools and support to empower clients to develop and implement their own solutions.

Coaching is not Mentoring. A mentor helps guide a client to emulate the mentor’s own success. Mentors are often chosen because they have traveled the same road the client is on. In contrast, coaches empower clients to discover their own paths. A coach’s value isn’t in their technical know-how or specific knowledge about their client’s issues or field of expertise (though they may possess that), but in the ability to help clients draw from their own experience and wisdom so that they can achieve enduring success.

A mentor stands in front of the client and says, “Follow me.”

A coach stands beside the client and asks, “Where shall we go?”

Coaching is not Therapy. Therapists help their clients to become fully functional individuals. Therapists concentrate on “fixing” the past so the present will improve for the client. This may require fixing problems, overcoming issues and challenges from the past, healing, and, sometimes, managing mental illness.

Coaches help clients focus on their plans for the future through a results-oriented process that moves them from functional to optimal performance… and, ultimately, from optimal to OUTSTANDING!

Therapy examines the past to help a client cope with the present;
Coaching builds on the present to create the future.

What Coaching IS

The focus on attaining your unique potential is what sets traditional coaching apart from the problem-solving, expert opinion, and coping strategies of other modalities. Simply, the other helping professions were created to solve problems. In consulting, mentoring, and therapy, the helper is the authority, the path is clear and the client is looking for answers. In coaching, the coach comes along side the client to work to achieve the ultimate goals desired by the client. In this way, coaching assists the client in discovering their path for success.

We said earlier that coaching incorporates the best aspects of consulting, mentoring, and therapy. There are times when coaches act like consultants, suggesting new ideas from their intuition, knowledge, and experience. Like mentors, coaches can certainly provide valuable insight into their client’s experiences or situations. And, like therapists, coaches sometimes “visit” the past to understand the present.

Coaching focuses on partnering with individuals to create the future they envision. It’s about challenging and supporting people to achieve higher levels of performance, while allowing them to bring out the best in themselves and those around them.

What the Power Coach Online Program Does for the Client

Our coaching program takes the client beyond traditional coaching. We achieve the goals of traditional coaching and beyond, completing strategies for enduring success. We incorporate a principle called Power Thinking! into the traditional coaching program. Power Thinking! is a unique “problem solution tool”. The goal of Power Thinking! is to create an invincible mentality into every aspect of the client’s experience. Right thinking leads to invincibility. Power Thinking! is positive thinking on steroids. It provides the client with the tools needed to be invincible so they can think positively.

I’m offering you an opportunity to “test drive” the coaching program for yourself. I am going to give you the first step in the coaching system for free. No charge to you and no long term commitment. You’ll get a chance to see if a coaching relationship with me is in your best interest. When you click on the button below you’ll go the sign up page. There you’ll see that there is no charge. All I ask is that you consider if this is for you at the conclusion of the first series. That’s it!