Personal Coaching To Be All You Can Be
Much has been said about the importance of setting goals to achieve results. That's where clarity, goals, and balance come in, because all of these elements contribute to optimum performance, and the ability to get what you really want out of life. A personal coach will help you set the best goals for your situation.
The role of a personal coach is to help individuals clarify their thinking, set and achieve their goals, realize their dreams, and create balance in their lives. Hiring a personal coach to help identify and achieve desired results is a relatively new phenomenon. There are now approximately one hundred personal coaches in the Greater Vancouver area, up from a handful in 1998.
There is a difference between a personal coach and a therapist. Therapy is designed to focus on the past and help you correct problems that occurred as a result of past events. A coach looks to the future, and to help you maximize your skills and knowledge so you can achieve everything that you can.
The personal coach does not give advice. We're always more committed to a plan of action we ourselves have created, than to a plan created by someone else. Instead, personal coaching helps the client identify what he or she most wants to be or do and helps them build on their strengths and create a plan of action.
It has been estimated that only 20% of individuals who pursue fitness programs achieve their goals; of the 20% who succeed, more than 80% have had the benefit of guidance from a coach.Accountability to an objective third party is one of the key factors in getting measurable results and significantly improves the odds of achieving success.
Anyone who wants to achieve their goals can benefit from personal coaching. Many athletes have personal coaches, as do a growing number of professionals and executives. In the work place, corporations are using personal coaching programs as part of their human resource management strategy.
The coach will ask questions such as: What's the biggest challenge you have? What do you really want? What are you merely tolerating? What manageable steps would help you to achieve your goals? Personal coaching may involve homework and exercises, and your coach will seek feedback.
We all know that goal setting is important to achieve results in life. Personal coaching allows you to clarify your thoughts so that you can set reasonable goals. There is a large and growing market for personal coaches. They differ from therapists in that they focus on the future instead of the past. They don't focus on giving advice but on building on strengths. It has been shown that third parties can help people succeed in reaching their goals. Coaches will want to help you ask the right questions about your life. They are considered a major part of modern human resource management.
Published July 20th, 2007
Filed in Business, Career, Management
