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Who, exactly, seeks out a coach?...Winners
who want even more out of life.
-- Chicago Tribune, 12/17/00
Once used to bolster troubled staffers,
coaching is now part of the standard leadership development training for elite
executives and talented up-and-comers at IBM, Motorola, J.P. Morgan, Chase and
Hewlett Packard. These companies are discreetly giving their best prospects
what star athletes have long had: a trusted adviser to help reach their goals.
-- CNN.com, 5/28/01
Today’s managers, professionals,
and entrepreneurs are hiring coaches to help them with time management, a change
in career, or balancing their work and personal lives. People are looking to
coaches as sounding boards and motivators who can offer a fresh perspective
on career and life problems--but without the conflicting agendas of a spouse,
family member, or even a mentor.
-- Fortune, 9/28/98
I first heard about personal coaches
five years ago--at the same time personal fitness coaches were beginning to
flex their muscles. The two fields are related: coaches in both areas help you
achieve your potential…Personal coaches provide powerful professional
insights. My personal advice: Get one.
-- Chicago Tribune, 5/17/98
Coaching is an action-oriented partnership
that, unlike psychotherapy which delves into patterns of the past, concentrates
on where you are today and how you can reach your goals.
--Time, 03/11/01
…the quickly growing wave of
coaching relationships are helping small-business owners improve their business
skills, recalibrate their approaches to management, and, often, totally reboot
and rebalance themselves as leaders on the job and in the home and community.
-- Nation’s Business, 12/98
If you want to build your business
and at the same time have a rewarding personal life, you call a coach.
--”Businesses Hire Coaches to Build Winning Teams, “Denver Post,
10/98
A major benefit of coaching is having
someone who helps you see your strengths and weaknesses and use them to accomplish
your goals.
-- Minneapolis-St. Paul Star-Tribune, 5/98
Clients say that coaches give them
a fresh perspective. A lot of times you’re fighting fires and you don’t
see an easier way to solve the problem. The objective, distanced view of a coach
can also lead to new ways of looking at issues because the coach’s ideas
aren’t limited by politics or position within the company.
-- InfoWorld, 5/24/99
What’s driving the boom in
coaching, is this: as we move from 30 miles an hour to 70 to 120 to 180…aw
we go from driving straight down the road to making right turns and left turns
to abandoning cars and getting on motorcycles…the whole game changes,
and a lot of people are trying to keep up, learn how not to fall off.
-- John Kotter, Professor of Leadership, Harvard Business School
Tiger Woods has one. Pete Sampras
has one. So why not small business owners--
--localbusiness.com, 9/18/00
Coaching simply speeds up the process
of change that would most likely occur anyway if an individual had enough time.
Without a coaching program that allows a client to focus and make time, people
sometimes miss the real issues they need to focus on.
-- The Ivy Business Journal, Sept/Oct 2000
Coaching is not about the pat or
figuring out why and how life got so complicated or overwhelming. It is about
moving forward on things that matter most to you, dissolving barriers and blocks
to your own success, and designing a life that you love.
When you understand the definition of coaching, it seems that everyone should
have one!
--Sausalito.net, August 2000
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