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Coaching is a new profession. It does not yet have a global recognised set of qualifications or code of conduct or regulatory bodies for its practitioners. Coaching for business people was birthed out of recognition by leading American business schools that coaching played a significant role in the achievement of sporting individuals and teams. They decided to research the field of coaching and made those remarkable discoveries.
Success has only something to do with the application of skill: the rest comes from internal mental and spiritual energy and strength.
Success comes from within the individual or team; it’s not dependent on negative or positive external factors.
Methodologies exist that enable and empower people to generate and sustain mental and spiritual energy and strength.
Individual and team self-esteem and confidence can be kindled and nurtured to a point where it becomes self sustaining.
COACHING IS THE VEHICLE THAT DELIVERS THESE POWERFUL ASSETS.
THE WORLD OF SPORT COACHING CAN MIGRATE TO THE WORLD OF BUSINESS TO CREATE:
oCOMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE
oACHIEVEMENT OF TARGETS
oINDIVIDUAL AN TEAM GROWTH
Today, in South Africa, there are a number of reputable individuals and organisations (of which I am proud to be one) who are able to bring the benefits of coaching to the business community. Coaching is a collaborative relationship (like, we do it together!) between the coach and the client, for the purpose of generating high level performance in an individual or team.
Coaching is solution and goal orientated. You, the client, need to know where you want to be and when you want to get there. You need to know it specifically – what it will look like, sound like, feel like – maybe even taste like and smell like!
The coach will then take you through a process of examining the choices that you as a unique individual or team have, in deciding on the path that takes you from where you are to where you want to be. And then what challenges you need to face before you set out; in other words “In order to get to where I want to be, on my chosen path, what I must stop doing that I am presently doing and what must I start to do that I am not doing now?”
Then we hit the “New Years resolution syndrome”. In the euphoric glow of a new beginning, we are prepared to give up, and start to do, anything! “Whoa!” says the coach? “What about all those things that you value and all those things that you believe in – the product of your conditioning since you were knee high to a grasshopper.” Is the pastor’s son who respects and has internalised his father’s beliefs and values really going to open an escort agency, just because it is a quick way to make lots of money?
You, the client, are now given the opportunity to align your future path and your response to its challenges, with your inner value set and belief system. Once this is done you are ready to act.
The coach then works with you to co-create a strategy for following the path of your selection to the destination that you have chosen. Every two weeks for a suggested period of 6 months the coach will review progress with you and examine the feedback you are receiving from your business, family and social environments. This review and forward plan session usually lasts for two hours.
Coaches who are experienced will usually charge from R4000 a month per executive, owner manager or team.
FAQs
Q:What happens after the six month coaching assignment has been completed?
A:The individual or group should now have sufficient experience of the process to coach themselves. It is not desirable to create a dependency of the client on the coach. Alternatively a new goal may be set as the subject for a new coaching assignment.
Q: What happens if I don’t get where I want to be in the specified time?
A:The coaching guarantee is that you will either be where you wanted to be at the end of the coaching assignment or you will somewhere else!! Wherever you are, you will know exactly how and why you have come to be there.
Q:Can I not be coached for less money?
A:Not really, the cost is related to the value received. Think what you pay for telephones, rent, travel and wages. How do these relate to a service that offers to empower and enable you, by accessing and skilfully using your inner resources, to achieve your business and personal goals in a time frame set by yourself ?
So …..Mentoring is like chicken soup, coaching is the main course, meat and potatoes or 5 kinds of fresh vegetables if you prefer.
Select your coach carefully – this is probably the most valuable business partner you will find. Enter into the process positively and enthusiastically. Stay with it, experience the results, They will transform your business and your life.
Good luck and good hunting.
Ian J Jones
www.ianjjones.com
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