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17 Reasons That You Need a Coach
October 27th, 2008 by StephenPosted in Entrepreneur, Follow Your Dream, Inspiration, Productivity, Work 2.0 |
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Every athlete has one, whether for an individual or team sport, from little kids on the sandlot to professionals on the gridiron. Even bridal parties need someone to instruct and manage the actions of the team members. Professional football and baseball teams often have a different coach for each particular aspect of the game, offense, defense, you name it.
Yet many people outside of these arenas are completely on their own.
The worlds of business and work, family and life are just as important to each of us as they are to professional athletes, yet once we are out of school or college we rarely get any coaching on our performance.
What can a coach do for you?
A coach or mentor is there to help you develop your skills. In many areas of life (such as money, parenting, marriage, leadership, public speaking, even health and excercise) there are coaches available who can guide you to:
- Discover and develop your passions
- Build a clear vision for the future
- Write your personal mission statement
- Learn how to relate to co-workers
- Learn how to manage people
- Learn how to navigate change
- Build your communication skills
- Appraise your performance
- Break out of a rut
- Learn to think about problems in a different way
- Take action in areas that need improvement
- Free yourself of a destructive self-image
- Improve communications in a marriage or relationship
- Become more confident in yourself
- Take more responsibility
- Take more (or less)! risks
- Grow in your faith
If you have had a growth experience with a coach or mentor, tell us about it in the Comments! If you are interested in getting some coaching (particularly about Productivity practices), see the services page and drop me a line.
Or just send me an e-mail. And to totally free Productivity information, and share your experiences with others, join the Productivity Mastermind conference call on Thursdays at 4:00pm Eastern.
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October 27th, 2008 at 7:49 am
It used to be the case in the UK that most people learning a new skill would havea mentor, we called it aprenticeships.
About 20 years ago the governemnt of the day decided we didn’t need them. Fast forward to today and we have no skilled young people to replace the experienced people who are now retiring.
Mentoring is important although I never hada mentor:(
October 27th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
That is a difficult problem to have, in the US apprenticeships only exist for the skilled trades - not professional careers. And the colleges, well, they are not what they used to be…
October 27th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
Stephen, I am a Life Coach and a Bridal Coach and I love your photo of Bride coaching Bridesmaids! Did you take it? Is it public domain? Thank you for such a great site! Paula Verbit
October 27th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
Hi Paula, I am not sure of the origin of the pic, a friend saw it and sent it to me…