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.
more 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.
more 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."
more 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.
more 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.
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