What I Have Learned About Business Coaching
When I first heard about business coaching it was not something I gave a lot of thought. I was too busy working was my feeling about it. Why should I waste time with someone patronising me with speeches?
That changed when I started reading about it on this website. It made me think about a lot of the assumptions I was making. What I was actually thinking of was motivational speakers, the type of people that give presentations and tell everyone how special they are.
I am not saying that speakers are not effective or that they are some kind of con trick. But this type of coaching is totally different to what I was expecting. As the name suggests it was developed by this guy who was a football coach. When he retired he used his skills to help people in business. Effectively it is about reaching goals and how to achieve them.
If I do not work hard during a training session, my sensei does not suffer. It is the same thing with the coach. My failure is my own. What they can do is make me recognise where I am going on and confront my negative behaviour. It is not the same as therapy, there is no look at private events from my past.
Like I said it is not therapy. They do not want to know about how it felt when your dog died or why you still miss being seven years old and how Grandma made peanut butter sandwiches for you and cut them into squares. No matter how you make them they are never quite the same.
As well as business coaching they also do what they call life coaching. In effect they look at your whole world view, seeing how you not only make negative behaviour become positive but also clearing out that negativity entirely. Even reading about it has made me evaluate my life and I look forward to getting a coach who can help me make more of my life.
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