Why have a coach?

In the sports world an athlete doesn't get to the top of their profession without the guidance and support of a coach. Without a coach they would not be at the peak of their performance and achieve success.
Coaching can come in many forms - but a coach is someone who will enable you to improve, motivate you and hold you accountable to your goals and enable you to grow.
Some of the positive benefits to working with a coach are:

• Time to focus on YOU and what you want to achieve.
• Someone to challenge, motivate and support you.
• Enable you to come up with a fresh approach to an old problem.
• A safe supportive environment to discuss your issues and test out your ideas.
• Give you accountability and commitment.
• Create an action plan and support you in achieving it.
• Someone to provide unconditional support and praise.

A coach also offers a totally objective point of view.  They can be a sounding board for your ideas.  You will have an environment in which you get a chance to spend time on ‘you’.  Your issues, ideas and goals.  You will challenge yourself more because you have support, motivation and can afford to stretch yourself further than doing it on your own.  Your coach will keep you accountable and on track.

If you commit your goals to writing you are 40% more likely to achieve them.

If you tell someone else you are 60% more likely to achieve them.

If you have a coach you are 95% more likely to achieve your goals.

I often hear people say that their family is their support and they don't need anyone else.
"Although family members mean well, they often have a preconceived notion about your limitations, strengths and your future. It is difficult for family members to project beyond what they themselves achieved and or experienced. When you hire a coach who has worked with executives across numerous industries, you gain access to a wealth of information, insight, techniques and strategies used by other successful achievers."

Coaching is becoming a must for success!

IBM has more than sixty certified coaches among its ranks. Scores of other major companies have made coaching a core part of executive development. The belief is that, under the right circumstances, one-on-one interaction with an objective third party can provide a focus that other forms of organizational support simply cannot.

And whereas coaching was once viewed by many as a tool to help correct underperformance, today it is becoming much more widely used in supporting top producers.

In fact, in a 2004 survey by Right Management Consultants (Philadelphia), 86 percent of companies said they used coaching to sharpen the skills of individuals who have been identified as future organizational leaders.

"Coaching has evolved into the mainstream fast," says Michael Goldberg, president of Building Blocks Consulting (Manalapan, New Jersey), whose clients include New York Life and MetLife. "This is because there is a great demand in the workplace for immediate results, and coaching can help provide that."
How? By providing feedback and guidance in real time, says Brian Underhill, a senior consultant at the Alliance for Strategic Leadership (Morgan Hill, California). "Coaching develops leaders in the context of their current jobs, without removing them from their day-to-day responsibilities."

At an even more basic level, many executives simply benefit from receiving any feedback at all. "As individuals advance to the executive level, development feedback becomes increasingly important, more infrequent, and more unreliable," notes Anna Maravelas, a St. Paul, Minnesota-based executive coach and founder of TheraRising. As a result, she says, "Many executives plateau in critical interpersonal and leadership skills."

So, should you have a coach?
If you want to be the best you - YES!
And my small business coaching program is affordable and easy...
Plus... you have a dentist to help with caring for your teeth.
You have a doctor to help caring for your body.
You need a coach to help with your thinking and your business...  after all how you think is the single biggest factor in whether you are happy with your life or not.

Recent studies have shown that 20 % of your success is from how you work and 80% of your success is from how you think - What's going on in your head is driving 80% of your results!

-Clarity Point Caoching