Most coaches have qualifications and/or experience which you can check. They are usually pleasant people with a genuine interest in personal development. I coach mostly by telephone so my clients can keep in touch even when busy or away from home, others coaches have offices where you meet and some meet you at your home or work. Coaching is often arranged as hourly appointments once a week/fortnight/month, others offer shorter sessions when necessary or even coaching marathons if that suits their client best.
Many coaches ask you to set your own agenda, offering support whilst challenging you to be both ambitious and realistic when improving your life-work balance, or making small but significant changes for your business or planning ahead for a satisfying retirement. Others take a more directive mentoring role, using their personal experience to advise and guide you whilst others take a role closer to that of a therapist to help you explore the reasons why you feel you’re stuck in a rut.
Which style is right for you on this occasion? Do you want to set your own agenda with support from your coach who will use their skills to motivate, challenge and support you? Would you prefer to be advised or directed by a coach/mentor or to talk about the feelings which you think hold you back with a coach/therapist? Would the convenience and lower cost of confidential telephone coaching be best or do you have the time to visit your coach or have them visit you at home or at work? If you use these suggestions to refine your ideas about what sort of coach would suit you best for your current purposes, you’ll be well placed to review websites, read promotional materials and evaluate presentations more efficiently. As all good coaches should offer a demonstration or complimentary coaching session before you make a final decision, book at least one no-strings appointment and allow your personal experience to guide you to the right coach.
Felicity Breet
www.coachingatthenextlevel.biz
Find the right coach - To learn more about this author, visit Felicity Breet's Website.
Like this article? Share it with your friends
 |
Related Articles |
|
 The Top Ten Reasons to Hire a Coach
|
| |
You have a big goal and you want someone to support you. A coach has no other agenda except to help you succeed. He/she can help you to brainstorm ideas, act as a sounding board, help you overcome your fears, and ho...
|
|
What Can I Expect From a LifeBusiness Coach
|
| |
A life/business coach works with you helping to identify and set goals. A life coach will help you clarify your values and create a personal vision for success. A coach will help you prepare an action plan and will ...
|
|
Improve Your Life How to Hire A Coach
|
| |
A reader writes, “I read your "Ten reasons to hire a coach" and, believe it or not, all the ten reasons apply to me. I am really interested in having more information about it. I do not know how or where to contact ...
|
|
What do Barbara Streisand and Tiger Woods have in common?
|
| |
In addition to being at the top of their respective fields, Streisand in music and Woods in golf, they both work with a coach.
Why would someone at the top of their chosen profession need a coach?
|
|
Taking Charge of Your Life
|
| |
What is a Life Coach and how a coach can help you to take charge of your life.
|
 |
Related Businesses - Evan Elite Authors |
|
Anne Barr
Anne Barr has over 26 years experience in sales and marketing, six years as a franchisee. She has assisted over 367 business owners and purchasers to achieve their goals in career change, transition and exit strategy. She holds the designation of Certified Franchise Executive from the International Franchise Association, Certified Business Intermediary from the International Business Brokers Association and Board Certified Broker from the Texas Association of Business Brokers. Anne is active in professional organizations,
networking groups and volunteers for non-profit entities. As owner/operator of four successful businesses, Anne has proven people skills and enjoys helping clients find the right "fit" in business
ownership. Visit www.FranchiseOpportunitySpecialist.com for more information about me and my company. - Visit Anne Barr's Website |
|
Accessible Business Consultants
Dave Turkin, President, of Accessible Business Consultants is a full service business consultant that has over 32 years of experience working with small-medium size businesses. Dave has designed and implemented numerous business and marketing plans, designed internal programs for accounting and operational procedures. He has analyzed businesses and prepared strategic plans setting budgets for growth, expansion and business restructuring.
He currently sits on the Board of Directors of various corporations as an advisor. For many years he has been the Business Coach to many executives offering advice and guidance from old and established companies as well as new companies just getting started.
Dave has the ability to analyze a business quickly and get a strong indication as to the necessary steps to improve operations, productivity and profitability. - Visit Accessible Business Consultants's Website |
|
Vwodek Wojczynski
Business Coach and Consultant Vwodek Wojczynski (pronounced Voy-chin-ski) brings fun, awareness, accountability and fresh perspectives based on his diverse experiences in life and business.
Born in Poland and educated in Greece and Canada, he is trilingual with 8 years experience in business development with clients in Canada, USA, Switzerland and Poland.
His approach is systematic and process-driven. He fuses the know-how of proven business methods with his commitment that entrepreneurs experience satisfaction and joy based on their values, motivations and strengths. He believes that businesses succeed based on their ability to generate value by providing what’s needed and wanted.
Ultimately, he trains executives and true business owners - people who work less, produce more, own businesses that run automatically after a while and make a difference globally.
His current research focus is the development of intelligent business systems and the application of emerging artificial intelligence technologies in business.
He is also an avid traveler, spoken word performer and visual artist. He resides in Toronto, Canada. - Visit Vwodek Wojczynski's Website |
|
Dianne Crampton
Dianne Crampton is an Executive Leadership Coach and Team Building Consultant and creator of the TIGERS team development model. For the past twenty years she has helped leaders and teams achieve goals with high levels of collaboration and teamwork.
Crampton is a published author. Her contribution to Working Together: Diversity As Opportunity was endorsed by Stephen Covey. She has written for trade magazines. Merrill Lynch nominated her business for Inc. Magazine’s regional small business and entrepreneurial awards. Her work with Native Americans was recognized at a United Nations sponsored conference in 1994.
The TIGERS model passed two rigorous validation studies in 1992 and 1994. The TIGERS Survey is able to measure and track team development over time.
Dianne is also the creator and distributor of the TIGERS Team Wheel game. This game helps groups identify behaviors that build collaborative groups and behaviors that cause conflict, morale problems, production failures, and misunderstandings.
For more information, or to subscribe to TigerTracks, a free monthly leadership and team newsletter go to http://www.corevalues.com - Visit Dianne Crampton's Website |
|
The Evan Elite Authors program is currently in beta phase. For details please contact us.
|
|
|
Felicity Breet's
Complete
List Of
Work-Life
Articles
|
|
|
If you enjoyed this article, get Felicity Breet's Complete List of Work-Life Articles For FREE!
|
|
|
More Felicity Breet
 Find the right coach
|
|
|
|
|
![[Get Copyright Permissions]](http://license.icopyright.net/images/icopy-w.gif){kind=small}
