The Shorter Oxford English
Dictionary defines the relevant form of "coach" as:
"To
prepare for an examination or in special subjects; to prime with
information."
Your personal
coach helps you prepare for any special situation which you foresee
as a potential challenge. Your coaching session primes you with
the right approach for success and a plan of action.
Often these
special situations are predictable:
an important pitch
for business
a promotion interview
or board
a special meeting
where you have to be sure that you will be 110% prepared
taking over a new
team
putting a major change
into place, whether company wide or departmental.
Other times
your coach will help is when you review learning from your own
particular experiences - whether difficult failure or resounding
successes.
Learning for
the future is your best guarantee of a better future achievement.
Follow these links to example
case studies:
Personal Coaching helps
you to:
Change the way that
you see or think about yourself.
Create and implement
personal development in your business and personal life.
Create and implement
strategies to improve your business achievement.
Create clear goals,
outcomes and indicators of success.
Develop your ability
as a successful manager.
Develop your problem
solving skills.
Increase your creativity
and originality.
Increase your emotional
intelligence.
Increase your thinking
ability - analytical, creative and evaluative.
Manage change, whether
responding to it or implementing it.
Manage people issues
successfully.
Use your accumulated
expertise.
TIP: Look out for
examples of how Personal Coaching helps bring success. An article
in the UK national paper "Mail on Sunday", quotes
Chris Turner, an entrepreneur with a financial services business.
"I've found the process very rewarding, but you have to be open-minded
and want to do it. It is useful to have someone to make me take
the time to sit back and reassess my position and the tasks ahead
of me. It (personal coaching) makes a big difference." Consider,
how big a difference could it make to you?