Business Adrenalin - Business Coaching

A look at what business coaching is, who Business Coaches work with, how they work, and the benefits of coaching.

“Coaching is unlocking a person’s potential to maximize their own performance. It is helping them to learn rather than teaching them. Clients say coaching brings out their best by helping them focus, break down tasks and clarify their values.” - Fortune Magazine

“The goal of coaching is the goal of good management: to make the most of an organization’s valuable resources.” - Harvard Business Review

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WHAT IS BUSINESS COACHING?
Business coaching is an intentional relationship between two or more people that facilitates shifts in the thinking, behavior and performance of the business person. Business coaching enables the business person to be in a position to grow and achieve goals that they consider important. Business coaching is an interactive process that expands business people’s effectiveness at both business and life-skills and allows them to identify obstacles that can hinder them from moving forward and attaining their goals.

THE ROLE OF COACHING IN BUSINESS
Business coaching is an ideal approach to helping business owners (or executives, managers, or other business persons) improve their business as well as their personal life.

COMPONENTS OF AN EFFECTIVE BUSINESS COACHING RELATIONSHIP
1. The Business Coach takes the time to understand the owner’s business and provides systematic developmental methodologies that help the business owner succeed.

IS COACHING FOR ME?
As a business person, you can prosper with help from a business coach if you are:

TWO WAYS TO GET BETTER
Linda Richardson in her excellent book Sales Coaching writes: “There are two ways to get better: work harder and/or change. Coaching is about how to change by doing things differently. Every organization and person has blind spots. The power of coaching lies in turning those blind spots into perspective."

THE VALUE OF COACHING
How valuable do the world’s top performers in sports and the world of entertainment consider coaching: So valuable that every top performer has a coach. Whether it is Tiger Woods, number one golfer in the world, or Luciano Pavaratti, the outstanding operatic tenor, or Julia Roberts, the academy award winning actress, each has a coach.

TWO IMPORTANT COACHING POINTS
There are two important points about business coaching that need mentioning:

FEEDBACK: THE CRITICAL COACHING COMPONENT
What is feedback? Rick Maurer, a management consultant specializing in organizational change explains: “On a flight from the East Coast to the West Coast, an airplane goes off course about ninety percent of the time.