Coaching? Ka-Ching!
Set up for success? This is where a personal business coach can give you an edge.
Someone in your corner in your personal life who loves you and listens to your wins and fails and tribulations is empowering. A friend or family member and confidante who sides with you when you’re right and is not afraid to tell you when you’re wrong.
The same is true for your professional life. A personal business coach is different than a favorite co-worker you vent with or a boss steering you right when you go wrong. When it comes to managing your career, having someone in your corner with your best interests in mind who can look at the situation with a cool, unbiased eye. Your own private Switzerland. An impartial, professionally-trained coach will let you know when it’s not “them” — it’s YOU — and will make positive suggestions for change, coaching you with advice on how to overcome obstacles instead of ducking or swinging wildly.
Job coaching is not the same as job mentoring. Job coaching is something you do on the side — for you. A therapist for your work life.
Caterina Rando, women in business coach, magazine publisher, and sought-after speaker, focuses on helping entrepreneurs, job coaches, consultants, and speakers, grow their businesses. She says the most important thing a successful businessperson can invest in for personal career growth is not an expensive suit, the latest laptop, or taking the boss out to dinner. It’s investing in themselves, learning skills for negotiation, empathy, acknowledgement, positivity, motivating others, and handling difficulties with graciousness. This is where coaching comes in.
While life coaching, personal coaching, raw food coaching, health coaching, and job coaching gets a fair share of criticism…
…the practice has become more widely accepted in recent years and many high-level executives say having a coach in your corner is the best-kept secret for success. Even back in 2006, The New York Times reported on director Ron Howard’s actress daughter Dallas Bryce Howard and other actors using life coaches to keep them motivated and on-point in making important decisions.
Since then, others have come forward with stories to tell about how life coaching has helped their careers, like this one by Deborah Gaines in the Huffington Post in 2013, in which Deborah explains how investing in a coach was investing in herself.
Martha Beck gained notoriety through her appearances on Oprah and is now featured in everyedition of Oprah Magazine. She is now a Life Coach for Life Coaches, because as Bloomberg puts it, “even the world’s top life coaches need life coaches.”
$85 to $214 an hour? DEAL ME IN. The International Coaching Federation is one place to go to explore the possibilities available to become an accredited coach.
What area of your career or personal life might benefit from some coaching?
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