5 Mistakes to Avoid when Looking for a Business Coach

1. 5 Mistakes to Avoid when Looking for a Business Coach 1. Not Being Clear on Desired Outcomes Working together is a partnership. You need to be clear on what your desired outcomes are. Even if you’re not quite sure how to articulate them, you should know why you are hiring someone and what you hope to achieve by doing so. Outcomes can range from specific business growth numbers to increased confidence to more work/business balance. It doesn’t matter what you desire, just that you know what it is (even if you refine it once you start working together) 2. Not Understanding the Duty and Gameplans of a Business Coach 1. What are the duties of a business coach?: A business coach is someone with an expertise in certain areas such as staff development, marketing, and implementing seminars/workshops. A business coach is a counselor, sometimes a mentor that produces magnificent results in a business. 2. How can a business coach increase my business?: that I work with might have to focus on the marketing, or providing sales training, or work on a time management system, GAPS, to produce results in their business. It depends on the business; some companies 3. What should I expect from a business coach?: be able tell you how much your business will increase. It could be anywhere from 25% to 1000% per year. They also need to walk their talk, and give some type of guarantee. If you hire the right business coach, they should 4. Who needs a business coach?: would like a better life. Anyone who would like to leave a legacy for their family. Anyone who would like to increase their business, anyone who 5. How much is a business coach?: session. Some coaches have a package price per year program. Do you have to attend a coaching school to be a good business coach?: some people preach about how coaches need to be certified in order to become a coach. I can respect that option. I would rather see a guarantee, and how much a person can increase my business then someone going to a fancy coaching program. It depends on his or her expertise. Some coaches charge per 6. Not really; although 7. Online coaching: This is one of the best methods of coaching. Most online coaching will give you a game plan and something to accomplish on a weekly or ten day basis. This coaching is great for people that live out of town or in another country. This coaching process work just as well as face to face coaching does. The online coaching usually runs for 30 to 60 minutes. It’s more of a specific way to get results. The best way to produce results with online coaching is to

2. sign up for a 12 months, this way we can create 90 day game plan, and find ways to increase your business from 25% to 1000% per year. 3. Not understanding the process Once your immediate needs for sharing your pains, goals and challenges have been satisfied, you will need a plan for reaching your destiny. You want to make sure that you know where you are on your journey at all times and how to get to the next step. Without a defined process and a set of tools that facilitate your journey, your coaching session merely becomes an interesting and moderately useful conversation. You can quickly fall into the trap of believing that coaching is ‘hard to quantify.’ Having ‘a sounding board in your coach’ is not enough. Your friends, colleagues and peers are the people you talk about the things that keep you up at night. Your coach will need to offer you practical new skills, awareness and knowledge, and help you integrate what you have learned into your day-to-day life. Skilled coaches will be able to walk you through their process. You will begin defining your core challenges, where you’re starting from, and where you want to go with a massive action plan. Yes, like all plans, this too, is a living document that shifts as new possibilities and opportunities unfold, or your focus sharpens with the progress you make in the process. When that happens, you will regain reassurance at the end of each coaching session with specific assignments and next steps in your development. I always make it a point that my coaching clients leave each session with clear ways of learning new skills and behaviours and how they can transfer those skills back to work and life. 4. Not checking the coach’s experience Focusing solely on a coach’s certification is a grave mistake. Certification merely means a coach has mastered some techniques and tools of coaching. It doesn’t necessarily imply that he or she is skilled at using those tools. Moreover, competency in coaching doesn’t reflect a coach’s experience in life or business. Real life experience and a compassion for people in your situation are a must, not a should. For example, an astute business person – schooled in coaching techniques – is more valuable to an executive than a certified coach lacking a strong business background.

3. If you have a struggling business, your best coach has proven turnaround experience. If you are dealing with overcoming childhood trauma, your coach should have mastered the same at one point in his or her life – or at least have some kind of personal connection to relatives or friends that have. When choosing among a group of experienced coaches, pick one with the most varied, non- linear and richest background. 5.Not test-driving the coach Like dating, in the end it is all about chemistry. We rarely end up marrying the person that checks all the boxes in our initial list of criteria. We pick the person with whom we have the most chemistry. This is another reason why I am offering a free Perform-at-Peak Strategy Session – and great coaches provide similar avenues to get to know each other. Check in with how you feel right after the talk. A good sign is if you feel excited and inspired by the discussion, but a bit scared. This typically means that you are stimulated to grow and ready to commit to the process. A part of you should be ‘scared’ because you know that you will need to stretch yourself beyond normal. That’s a good sign, indicating the coach will facilitate your moving beyond your comfort zone (which is where growth happens). If what you observe and hear resonates with both your heart and your mind, then you’ve found your ideal coach. Now you don’t have to make a mistake when it comes to hiring your own business coach. Thanks for taking the time to read this article. Connect with Rajiv Talreja, India's Leading business coach LinkedIn - Rajiv Talreja ? http://bit.ly/2y4jScq YouTube - Rajiv Talreja ? http://bit.ly/2GXlqg0 Instagram - @rajivtalreja ? http://bit.ly/2GXlFYs Also visit Rajiv Talreja