Are You Ready?
As people seek better professional lives for themselves, they are more likely to find outside help: a professional coach. An executive coach is singular in purpose – to make you more effective. Nothing more, nothing less.
Hiring an executive coach is a major decision – you will be investing time, energy, money and resources. Here are two questions for you to consider:
1. Are you ready to hire a coach?
2. Will you and I be a good fit?
Are you ready to be coached?
Here is a list of questions to help you decide:
Hiring an executive coach is a major decision – you will be investing time, energy, money and resources. Here are two questions for you to consider:
1. Are you ready to hire a coach?
2. Will you and I be a good fit?
Are you ready to be coached?
Here is a list of questions to help you decide:
- Do you have a clear vision of where you want to be?
- Is there a gap between where you are and where you would like to be?
- Have you defined your professional goals for the next year?
- Are you prepared to focus on the present and the future?
- Are you interested in developing yourself?
- Are you about to make a critical decision pertaining to your life or career?
- Are you ambitious, creative and confused?
- Are you getting the message that you need to make some changes?
- Do you have the time and resources to invest in your future?
A “yes” response to most of these questions suggests you are ready to take action and hire a professional coach.
For additional indicators,
>> Click here if you are a start-up company
>> Click here if you are in rapid growth
>> Click here if you are in continuous growth
Will you and I be a good fit?
This is the most critical aspect of hiring a coach. Like any relationship, for it to be successful, the players must be compatible.
Here are some questions for you to ask your prospective coach to assist you in determining a good fit:
For additional indicators,
>> Click here if you are a start-up company
>> Click here if you are in rapid growth
>> Click here if you are in continuous growth
Will you and I be a good fit?
This is the most critical aspect of hiring a coach. Like any relationship, for it to be successful, the players must be compatible.
Here are some questions for you to ask your prospective coach to assist you in determining a good fit:
- What is your style of coaching?
- How do you determine if the coaching is successful?
- Who is your ideal client?
- Who could I talk to about your coaching?
- What is your definition of a coaching relationship?
- Do you have a vested interest in my success?
- Who is your coach?
- How do you handle a coaching engagement that isn’t working?
- If our roles were reversed, what questions would you ask me?
The answers to these questions should provide you with a ‘feel’ of the coach’s technique(s), conversation style as well as their coaching knowledge, training and experience.
Selecting the best coach is so important that I may have two or three meetings with prospects to determine if we are a good fit. I ask all client prospects to complete an online assessment and/or questionnaire prior to our first meeting. We talk about your specific needs, expectations and desired results.
My MONEY BACK Guarantee
I strongly encourage you to enter into a written coaching agreement that affords you, the client, a realistic expectation of what can be achieved. I feel so strongly about this that I offer this MONEY BACK guarantee in my coaching agreement:
“At the conclusion of our first month of coaching, if you believe you have not received value from our time together, the coaching fee you have paid will be refunded in full, no questions asked.”
To date, not one client has requested a refund. That is one of the measures of my success.
Coaching is not an exact science. However, it is based on methods, models and practices that have been developed over time. The successes realized and achieved with executive coaching are well documented.
>> Click here to read about the value of coaching from the experts
From Fortune Magazine:
Most small business owners think it is important...
>> Click here to read the full article
FORTUNE magazine reported that one reader said, "I went into the coaching experience kicking and screaming, at the insistence of my then-boss. And what an eye-opener it turned out to be. I won't even go into the grim details of bad management habits I had unthinkingly developed in my 14-year career up to that point--but I will say that since I was 'cured' by 12 weeks of pretty intense coaching, I've been promoted three times."
The most valuable results of the coaching experience reported in the ICF small business study: brainstorming (28%), independent viewpoint (28%), encouragement (18%) and being accountable to the coach (15%).
Of study participants who had been coached, 59% would recommend coaching to other small business owners. Of those small business owners currently not working with a coach, 45% stated they were somewhat or extremely likely to hire a coach in the future.
back to top of pageSelecting the best coach is so important that I may have two or three meetings with prospects to determine if we are a good fit. I ask all client prospects to complete an online assessment and/or questionnaire prior to our first meeting. We talk about your specific needs, expectations and desired results.
My MONEY BACK Guarantee
I strongly encourage you to enter into a written coaching agreement that affords you, the client, a realistic expectation of what can be achieved. I feel so strongly about this that I offer this MONEY BACK guarantee in my coaching agreement:
“At the conclusion of our first month of coaching, if you believe you have not received value from our time together, the coaching fee you have paid will be refunded in full, no questions asked.”
To date, not one client has requested a refund. That is one of the measures of my success.
Coaching is not an exact science. However, it is based on methods, models and practices that have been developed over time. The successes realized and achieved with executive coaching are well documented.
>> Click here to read about the value of coaching from the experts
From Fortune Magazine:
Most small business owners think it is important...
>> Click here to read the full article
FORTUNE magazine reported that one reader said, "I went into the coaching experience kicking and screaming, at the insistence of my then-boss. And what an eye-opener it turned out to be. I won't even go into the grim details of bad management habits I had unthinkingly developed in my 14-year career up to that point--but I will say that since I was 'cured' by 12 weeks of pretty intense coaching, I've been promoted three times."
The most valuable results of the coaching experience reported in the ICF small business study: brainstorming (28%), independent viewpoint (28%), encouragement (18%) and being accountable to the coach (15%).
Of study participants who had been coached, 59% would recommend coaching to other small business owners. Of those small business owners currently not working with a coach, 45% stated they were somewhat or extremely likely to hire a coach in the future.
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |