Should You Use A Coach?… This golfer doesn’t
While I was watching the US Open golf tournament recently there was a lot of talk during the final round about Bubba Watson. If you watch golf at all, you know that Bubba Watson can hit the ball a long way. At the same time he has a tendency to hit the ball with a lack of accuracy. His inaccuracy hurt his chances of winning the US Open in this particular case. One thing one of the commentators said about Watson stuck out to me that Sunday as I was watching. The announcer talked about how Bubba Watson doesn’t use a swing coach. In fact he hasn’t used a coach
Working Towards The Wrong Goals
I worked in the corporate world for a long time before I decided to start my own business. At the outset of my career I had set some specific goals for myself. It turns out that these goals were the wrong goals but I kept working towards them anyway. One of the goals that I set was centered around moving up the corporate ladder and to get there by a certain age. The great thing about setting goals is that when we set them and use consistent action towards achieving them, we usually come out on top even faster than we planned. This is what happened to me. Unfortunately, from
External vs. Internal Accountability tools
Putting your accountability system in place requires looking at all the resources that you have at your disposal to keep us on track. There are 2 methods of tools that we need to think about to assist us in accountability- internal tools and external tools. External tools Your boss, if you are employed, is one tool for external accountability. As an employee we all need help getting to our goals and seeing new directions and good boss can help us do that. A business coach can help guide business owners in any number of business issues from sales and marketing to building your start up. Life coaching takes a holistic
Insert Coaching into Your Business System
Systems in business are so important. It’s important from a product delivery standpoint, sales, production etc. When you are putting a system together that includes a business plan, strategic objectives, goals and team, make sure that you make some room for a personal coach in that planning process. Having a coach can help you not only uncover the blind spots that you have but they can also uncover the blind spots in your overall plan. The 30,000 ft. viewpoint that a coach brings is critical to seeing how you operate and how your strengths will operate in a given plan. They are able to be objective as they are not
Even The Best Need It….
Coaching. When we think of the term, we often think about sports. When we become adults and assuming you’re not a professional athlete (if you are a professional athlete and are reading this, that’s cool too.), we don’t think about having coaching in our lives. We assume we should be able to handle things on our own because we are, after all, grown ups. For anyone who wants achieve a higher level of success, coaching can be a valuable tool that even the best use to get better. It’s been a while since I talked about coaching, but is a valuable part of realizing success personally and professionally.
How Edit-able Are You?
Accountability is a word that we hear thrown around quite a bit. Have you ever noticed that the people who call the loudest for accountability are the ones that are typically in need of it themselves? From the church leader who screams about the immorality of homosexuality only to later reveal his own homosexual activity to the politician who beats their chest about family values only to have infidelity revealed in their own marriage. Accountability is important but when it comes to self improvement there is another step to accountability which is the ability to be edit-able. I ran across the concept of edit-ability vs. accountability in the book 11:
Who Holds You Accountable for Your Time?
Coaching is the ultimate in accountability. We hear about coaching a lot as it pertains to sports but it is also a great tool to use in any profession that you are in. If you are having trouble managing your time and being as productive as you want to be, it may be time to get a professional involved to help get you over the hump. That professional is a productivity or time management coach. I am going to talk more about workshops and seminars that you can go to tomorrow to get help with time management. Workshops are great and give you great tools but once the seminar is
Positively Impact Your Life Forever
Better than a thousand days of diligent study is the one day with a great teacher– Japanese Proverb To get off on the right foot with mentoring, you need to know what your needs are. There are three important components to setting up your relationship. Planning up front on your part, communication throughout the relationship and coaching. The better you understand your needs upfront the more likely you mentoring relationship will be a success. In terms of planning, the first question to ask yourself is what are my areas of need? Is it technology? Is it leadership? Once you have identified your needs you can then think about what you
Coaching for business to ease the burden
http://www.smallbusinesstransitions.com/teacher-trainer-coach-executive-coach-business-coach/659/ Why are we so reluctant to hire coaches in our lives? We act is if this is only relevant to sports. If you want to be the best we can be at something then you need people in your lives to push you to that level. You will not be able to do it alone. To use sports as an example, take the example of Tiger Woods. Tiger Woods is the greatest golfer on the planet but has several coaches included one for his swing and game. No matter what level we are at, we can always attain higher levels of achievement. Not sure how to get help for
