Many businesses are having challenges. Many of these challenges can also be hidden inside the cooperation, but some usually are clear. Most businesses tries to cope with these challenges internally, but it is not the easiest part to do.
internally there are leaders that needs to see the challenges from the employees side, and also if the challenge are directed to the leader, it can be difficult for the employees to report them.
I most cases there will be easier for a coach to assist both leaders and employees with finding and coping with the challenges and to see them from an outside perspective. No assumptions will be present.
Here is some pointers on why you should let a coach assist you:
- You will set far better goals and it will motivate you in a different way.
Hire the coach, an expert in helping you to identify and set the goals that you really want is an investment, not a cost.
Choosing the right goals for you is an art. Furthermore, the coach takes the necessary time to help you clarify your personal values. This ensures 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 them.
- You’ll accomplish goals, 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 both their job/business and 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 less time.
- You’ll make fewer mistakes in your business and also in your personal life.
The old model that sais “learning from your mistakes” is now more or less gone. But how else will you learn if you don’t make mistakes? With a coach, you have a third eye, someone who’s been there and who has coached others in your situation. An expert in getting the job done with the minimum of fuzz. A lighter learning curve with less mistakes, errors in judgment, wrong turns etc.
The costs (emotional, financial, time) of making mistakes has become 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 the ladder of your professional and personal life.
Almost everybody is striving to move up the ladder of business success. Some also on personal development, awareness and emotional balance, but this goes for just a few. 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
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 what you want instead, your outcome. You cannot afford to let a problem keep you stuck, period. Life’s too short and problems are too expensive.
- You will probably make a lot 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 situation, 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 and/or grow the company. By adding more value to their customers, proper pricing, productivity, leadership issues, team buildings and others.
- You’ll be a lot happier and you get more time to do the things you like.
Coaches know how to help you to reduce stress, and to integrate all aspects of your life by keeping the balance between work and private time. Further reorienting around what makes you the happiest.
- You’ll be much more effective and influential with others.
A coach is an expert communicator. He trains clients on how to come across better and relate better with others. To listen, influence, motivate, and support others. There are hundreds of communication and listening skills that clients can learn from a coach.
- You’ll gain more ‘attraction’.
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. Humans will respond less to advertising and selling techniques. Moreover, they will be more likely drawn because of who is offering the product or service. This process is called attraction and it will replace much of the promotion, marketing, selling, seducing, and other very expensive budget items.
Remember, the world (consumers) is rapidly eliminating virtually all waste and inefficiencies. Particularly, in how business is conducted, products are sold and how services are delivered.
Getting reach in selling by mass marketing 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 seeking to create a much better life is accelerating. In fact, people are re-examining what they had assumed that a good life was (married, 2 kids, nice car, secure job, 4 weeks of vacation a year).
Thus, they 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 process, and has already made the kind of changes in their life. Changes that their clients are just now beginning to make.
Best Regards
Tom Stenshavn
P: +66 (9) 888 12084