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| Friday, 22 May 2009 | |
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A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they
are.
Coaches aren’t just for sports anymore. The millennium’s hottest helper can
transform your life.
Several years ago Bradford was another middle-management burnout candidate:
on the job early each morning, on the phone each night until ten, giving far too
little time to her family. She was facing a stressful mid-career move from
Washington, D.C., back to Maine and a big transition to a new job at Met Life.
But a boss let her in on his little secret: He had a personal coach. She might
want to get one too. A friend of hers, who also had a coach, made the referral,
and Bradford began having weekly phone conversations with Talane Miedaner, an
executive coach in New York City who has worked with people at Bear Stearns,
Citicorp, Motorola, Salomon Smith Barney, and Sears.
All coaching is, is taking a player where he can't take himself.
..[A coach is] part advisor, part sounding board, part cheerleader, part
manager and part strategist.
To manage or to coach? People will manage the work. By attempting to manage
people you are limiting their potential. A manager is a title, it does not
guarantee success. Coaching is an action, not a title and actions will result in
successes!
How do you define success? That's not a trick question, and there
are no wrong answers. For some, obviously, success means money. Others
rate emotional happiness as being more important. Yet others rate
popularity above all else. Regardless of how you define success, an
emerging specialty called 'success coaching', also known as personal
and professional coaching, offers the chance to visualize your highest
goals and stay on track to achieve them.
I tell you everything that is really nothing, and nothing of what is
everything, do not be fooled by what I am saying. Please listen
carefully and try to hear what I am not saying.
Who, exactly, seeks out a coach?…Winners who want even more out of life.
Once reserved for executives and professional athletes, personal coaches …are going mainstream.
Investment bankers, entrepreneurs, dentists, accountants,
secretaries, even homemakers are hiring coaches to help guide them in
everything from changing careers to starting a business to balancing
work and family.
Once used to bolster troubled staffers, coaching now is part of the
standard leadership development training for elite executives and
talented up-and-comers at IBM, Motorola, J.P. Morgan, Chase, and
Hewlett Packard. These companies are discreetly giving their best
prospects what star athletes have long had: a trusted adviser to help
reach their goals.
As a coach, your high standards of performance, attention to detail
and – above all – how hard you work, set the stage for how your players
perform.
The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our
vanity. The skillful propagandist stirs and coaches these internal
persuaders.
Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be
smart enough to understand the game and dumb enough to think it's
important.
Coaching is having a dedicated mentor; it’s getting knowledgeable
support and encouragement and a new way of looking at things we need.
Executive coaches are not for the meek. They’re for people who value
unambiguous feedback. All coaches have one thing in common, it’s that
they are ruthlessly results-oriented.
The hottest thing in management today is the executive coach.
Asked for a conservative estimate of the monetary payoff from the
coaching they got, these managers described an average return of more
than $100,000, or about six times what the coaching had cost their
companies.
Coaches are everywhere these days. Companies hire them to shore up
executives or, in some cases, to ship them out. Division heads hire
them as change agents. Workers at all levels of the corporate ladder,
fed up with a lack of advice from inside the company, are taking
matters into their own hands and enlisting coaches for guidance on how
to improve their performance, boost their profits, and make better
decisions about everything from personnel to strategy.
The hottest thing in management is the executive coach …Coaches are
everywhere these days …Corporate coaches are in such demand that they
can charge from $600 to $2,000 a month for three or four 30-to
60-minute phone conversations.
The only service a friend can really render is to keep your courage
by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of
yourself.
The boss drives people; the leader coaches them. The boss depends on
authority; the leader on good will. The boss inspires fear; the leader
inspires enthusiasm. The boss says "I"; The leader says "WE". The boss
fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown. The
boss says, "GO"; the leader says lets, "GO!
The goal of coaching is the goal of good management: to make the most of an organization’s valuable resources.
Between 25 percent and 40 percent of Fortune 500 companies use executive coaches.
Want a booster to cheer you on, a guru for guidance, a drill
sergeant to keep you disciplined? Someone who will make you walk your
talk, but do it gently? Maybe what you want is a personal coach.
Professional Coaching is an ongoing partnership that helps clients
produce fulfilling results in their personal and professional lives.
Through the process of coaching, clients deepen their learning, improve
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