Life Coaching is a trend that has grown over the last decade. This profession has been on the fast track since the 1980’s, and has been through several changes (9). Even though it has been around, many life coaches are now going into business, making a living out of coaching. The book, The Business and Practice of Coaching: Finding Your Niche, Making Money, & Attracting Ideal Clients, gives a detail plan on how to start a coaching business and become profitable. This review will look at how the authors, Lynn Grodzki and Wendy Allen, depict how to start a coaching business, how one can take tips given and apply it to their business. Is coaching a trend or fad? This question opens up the first part of this book. A trend is something that will …show more content…
Know the differences between coaching, therapy and consulting. Even though these professions are similar, they have distinctive differences. Coaching focuses on the present and the future whereas therapy focuses on the past (25). In defining the difference between therapy and coaching, the authors created five criteria to help distinguish the two. The who (population), what (purpose), where (setting), why (intent), and how (skills). Knowing the differences will help the coach come up with an objective that will them know what population they want to reach, where it will take place, the purpose of why they are coaching, the skills they plan to use, and what they expect from their …show more content…
According to Grodzki & Allen you need three fundamentals to improve your entrepreneurial ability, strategic information about the business of coaching, an entrepreneurial mind-set and professional and peer support (126). Many people in business know a substantial amount about their business. They know what their potential audience wants and based off that, they grow their business. Grodzki & Allen created a strategic checklist exercise that allows the reader to see if they are ready to become business owners. Being a business owner requires you have a business mind-set. Developing a business mind-set means knowing how to think like a successful entrepreneur, by adopting an optimistic yet pragmatic attitude in order to make the right business decisions (132). If you think negatively and always worry, you may hamper all you efforts. By being positive allows you handle all the ups and downs that come with owning a business. Owning a business can be stressful. Seek advice from fellow colleagues. Create an advisory council. The purpose of this council is to guide the coach on the direction of his or her business (136). By making sure that this is something you’ll enjoy, will allow the coach to have financial success. When a coach has invested time and sweat into their business, emotions may play pivotal role in how successful the business will be. An emotionally intelligent way to operate in a
Coaching is an integral part of helping achieve one’s maximum abilities. Dr. Gawande (2013) explains that, “Coaches are not teachers, but they teach. They’re not your boss—in professional tennis, golf, and skating, the athlete hires and fires the coach—but they can be bossy” (p. 3). It is difficult to say what is the exact function of a coach, however, they help bring forth another point of view different from our own and they also help bring about the right mindset in order to subdue a weakness.
This constitutes the single largest barrier to successful coaching. Common barriers to
However, this is not really a direct correlation to the coach’s effectiveness in a particular sport, being that there are many other factors in coaching a team other than game records. The coach’s job is to enhance the athlete physically, socially, and psychologically, winning is only considered a by-product of that job (Gillham, Burton, & Gillham, 2013). Gillham, Burton, and Gillham (2013) focused on developing a Coaching Success Questionnaire-2 to allow a means of evaluating other aspects of a coach’s interaction with their athletes as both a research and coach development tool. A sample group of athletes at the varsity and club level ranging from ages 18 to 25 was used to develop the questionnaire by asking their perceptions of their coaches.
A proper coaching philosophy contains principles which improve character development, teach step by step tactical and technical skills, form proper progressive physical training regimens, and carefully utilize team management to handle and control problems with administrative issues. A coach with a sound philosophy should mold a team with strong cohesion, and he should treat players not only as teammates, but as family and friends who are encouraged to develop communication and lifelong learning of skills through positive support and role modeling from the coach (Mergelsberg, 14-15). The philosophy should also contain written documents of implemented strategies and techniques, so that the coach will know what to improve upon season by season
Gary Collins, a Christian counselor, helps individuals to comprehend their full potential using a God-centered way of coaching. He believes that, through coaching, an individual builds up a vision for their life and a desire for a good future. The book aids coaches to acquire skills that they require to help others, to emerge winners during difficult and challenging moments in their life. The book is also designed to develop Christian coaches’ in questioning, listening and responding. These can help Christian coaches to assess themselves and build up a strategy for their work. Collins rewrote the second edition in order to simplify his coaching methods. The second publication develops his practical skills as a new head in the world that is changing quickly, which includes how to use diverse situations, insights based on the Bible and customized forms among others.
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Coaching, however challenging, is a great way to influence the lives of others while also building their character. For as long as there have been sports, there have been people teaching the sport to the players and making them better at it. Coaches must have certain qualities in order to obtain success. One must also look at a coach’s motivation for his job, his passion for what he does, his methods for coaching, and how he became a coach in order to fully understand him. There are many questions someone may want to ask a coach about his profession if they are interested in coaching. Some questions would include: Why did he choose this as a profession? How did he get into coaching? What does one have to do to get a job as a coach? How does a coach become successful? I aim to answer all of these questions and more in my paper.
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Potrac, P., Gilbert, W. and Denison, J. (2013). Routledge handbook of sports coaching. 1st ed. New York: Routledge.
I wanted to start telling the story of our experience by sharing the feelings I brought into this exercise. A few years ago I underwent an experience of coaching through several sessions that left me this taste in the mouth that the coaching as a tool to develop others is not very effective. I have not taken the time to deeply analyze what went wrong but in general if I had to choose to do it again I think I would choose another methodology to foster change. Its objective in general is to assist in building behavioral skills, but in my opinion to really look for a long lasting change you need to give a deeper understanding to the lack of a certain skills, strongly reflect on the variables linked to it as could be the emotions, values and motivations that conduce you towards a behavior different that that one desired. Personally, I enjoy seeking information that allows me to jump beyond the facts, and staying on the behavioral side of the reality limits my passion for inspiration and insight.
The author has initially likened the term coaching to a sports team. In this context, the coach attempts to inspire the team to win games. Sport coaches help players realize their potential and motivate them to perform through discipline and teaching them relevant skills, techniques, and tactics. This is usually achieved through mutual communication and the fostering of meaningful relationships with the team members.
The word coach in a dictionary means a process that enables learning and development to occur and thus performance to improve. This means, being successful requires a knowledge and understanding of the process as well as the variety of styles, skills, and techniques that are appropriate to the context in which the coaching takes place. Next is mentoring, which means off-line help by one person to another in making significant transitions in knowledge, work or thinking. Both are very efficient whenever you’re dealing with student-athletes. However, mentoring, particularly in its traditional sense, enables an individual to follow in the path of an older and wiser colleague who can pass on knowledge, experience and open doors to otherwise out-of-reach opportunities. Coaching, on the other hand, is not generally performed on the basis that the coach has direct experience of their client’s formal occupational role unless the coaching is specific and skills focused. Given that shows there are professionals offering their services under the name of mentoring who have no direct experience of their clients’ roles and others offering services under the name of coaching who do. In other words, it is essential to determine what needs are productive, and to ensure that the coach or mentor can supply their student-athletes with the level of service that is required; whatever that service is