What Coach can do -What Coach does for you?
What a COACH can do for you? is the question that intrigues many entrepreneurs, athletes, and business owners across the world. Do the tools and techniques used by successes coaches actually work or it is just a feel-good factor?
The term coach in connection with an instructor or trainer arose around 1830 in Oxford University slang for a tutor who “carried” a student through an exam, but when you dig deeper in the Vedic period you will get enough references that how a Guru — Shishya concept well defined in Indian manuscripts, Vedas and Upanishads fits best in the above context.
Let’s Understand what Coach can do:-
There are many aspects that a coach touches and works upon, we will discuss the major one’s that a coach focus on:
1- Identifying future Potential and Caliber
The coach identifies the potential and caliber of a coachee by understanding them well and their past, present, and future aspirations. Steve Jobs coached Mark Zuckerberg because he knew that the man has potential and his belief in the idea of connecting people globally. Coach helps you to find out your true passion and identify your caliber when you just started, Warren Buffet investment is the best example for identifying the potentials and caliber early before anybody else could understand it similarly as a Coach.
2- Performance & Success Strategy
The performance and strategy part is the most critical one for the business owners, entrepreneurs, and performers. For a reference, coach Constantine D’Amato was an American boxing manager and trainer who handled the careers of Mike Tyson, Floyd Patterson, and José Torres, all of whom went on to be inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame. Several successful boxing trainers, including Teddy Atlas and Kevin Rooney, were tutored by D’Amatothere. The performance of the Australian cricket team with coach John Buchanan is the perfect example that how a coach can help you to be better in performance and success strategy.
3- Direction, Clarity and Purpose
Many entrepreneurs, players, owners, etc. may say that getting direction, purpose, and clarity is something that can be done without a coach, of course, “yes you can”, but with a coach “you do faster”…for a reference how coach Bill Campbell help CEO’s like Steve Jobs, Eric Smith, Bill Gates to set the direction and purpose to of their mission and dominating the market segmentation and thriving in Silicon Valley. Similarly, how coach Arsene Wenger helped Arsenal became only the first club in more than 100 years to win a premier league title without a single defeat throughout the season.
4- Personal Mastery & Team Alignment
“Talent wins the game but the team wins championships” — Michael Jordan The most important part for a coach is to help the coachee to achieve better and be their best versions ever day also they help align their core team with the vision and mission the success coaches like Tonny Robbins, Saurabh Kaushik, Jay Abraham, etc not only helping entrepreneurs to grow faster but also coaching their team to be aligned for better results and thriving in business and life.
To understand this methodically Harvard has done a research in 2009–2010 on the sample of 150 leading coaches and founded that: https://hbr.org/2009/01/what-can-coaches-do-for-you
- It is important to have the right fitment between the coach & coachee for better results and growth
- Entrepreneurs/Performers who get the most out of coaching have a fierce desire to learn and grow.
- The right match is absolutely key to the success of a coaching experience. Without it, the trust required for optimal executive performance will not develop.
- Scope of coaching shifts — It starts out with a business bias and inevitably migrates to ‘bigger issues’ such as life purpose, work/life balance, and becoming a better leader.”
- Better Performance & Market Domination — Coaching eventually focuses on the big picture in term of performance of leaders, entrepreneurs, etc and business owners to be the expert on a niche.
Having a Coach always helps you to boost your performance, mindset, and hunger to grow faster. They act as a catalyst in your growth and provide you an unbiased opinion so you take a better decision and lead a happy prosperous and more fulfilling life. There are many other aspects coach touches like behavior, mindset, relations, fears, etc however I have tried to cover the major aspect and big differentiator to give you the perspective.
Coaching is goal-oriented in the sense that they provide an opportunity to help move you forward (in no way excluding reflection and looking back, but certainly the focus is on how you move forward). Building psychological strength, increasing resilience, and identifying your next steps can involve strategies such as re-evaluating, reframing, and refocusing — all of which are part of a good coaching strategy.
Now we can take a pause and analyze that, What a Coach can do for us and for our business, and let’s focus on the bigger picture now onwards…..
