Category Archives: Coaching

Help Move Others to Success (and Move to Success Yourself)

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Help Move Others to Success

As “bad off” as you think you are, there are undoubtedly people out there who would give just about anything to reach the level of success you’ve reached. They would stop at nothing to achieve even just a little bit. They’re either new, unfocused, have hit too many roadblocks, or don’t know the first thing about making a solid plan and sticking with it.

Do you think you could help someone like that? I’m positive you can. What’s great is that helping others will help you. Mentoring or coaching other people helps you see business, mindset, and action taking in a whole new light. Understanding the problems others have and helping them through it is the perfect way to practice seeing your own problems from a whole new light.

You don’t have to be the world’s #1 expert on a topic in order to offer your help. That’s a common misconception. There are so many people out there who could be helping others but who don’t have the confidence to get their start.

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Thinking About Your Own Experiences to Effectively Coach Others

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There’s a big part of you in everything you do for your coaching business. That’s why it’s essential that you reflect on your own experiences before you start on your journey. This will help you become more effective for those you coach. You’ll recognize your own mistakes and successes so you can more readily help others.

You’re not someone who is infallible and who has never made a mistake. You haven’t gone completely without success either or you wouldn’t be a coach in the first place. You’ve had a lot of ups and downs. These things are part of your journey. They were difficult to go through at the time—or were really incredible, depending on the nature—either way, they will inspire your coaching clients.

You might be feeling a little bit hesitant to share too much about yourself. Please don’t be. You’re going to form a real relationship with your coaching clients and they will really appreciate your openness and honesty. They’ll be a lot more likely to become successful and push forward if they know that you’ve been through some similar things and that you can relate to them.

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Risk, Success, Failure, and Falling Off the Map

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Teach Your Coaching Clients to Take Risks

Some of your coaching clients will come to you ready to do something great. You’ll take a look at their current strategies, systems, and business in general and wonder what you’re supposed to help them with. They seem to have it all together. Your role might be to help them take risks.

Why is it important to take risks in business? Without risks, we don’t get nearly as many rewards. Your client may have come to you because they are ready for those great rewards. They can’t seem to get over the hump and go after it themselves, though.

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Helping Clients Move Beyond Their Past and Toward Their Future

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You’ll find that the past is a big part of the reason why people can’t seem to move forward with their business or with whatever it is you’re coaching them on. You’re not a therapist, but there are things you can do to help them move on and make some breakthroughs in business no matter what they’ve gone through.

When you first start working with a client, you’re going to take steps to learn more about their past on a personal and professional level. There will be personal things they aren’t ready to share with you, of course, but you need to know enough to understand where they’re coming from. You have to know what makes them the way they are.

It’s important that you help them get a new perspective. Help them see that everything in their past was a learning experience. They don’t have to forget the mistakes they made, but they should take a more positive outlook on them.

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Catering to Different Learning Styles and Personality Types as a Coach

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As a coach, you’re going to work with many different people. That might seem like a very obvious fact, but bear with me. The point is that you can’t take a one-size-fits-all approach to coaching. What works for one person won’t work for the next person. You’ll understand some of this instinctively, but it can also help to do a little digging into some of the research and theory that’s out there as well on personality types, psychology, and learning styles.

Part of this is getting to know who you’re working with. You’ll learn their background, needs, and goals. But you also have to have a good idea of how they learn best so you can present information in the best possible way.

There are several different learning style theories. I’m going to discuss two of them. Don’t fret about this— just read the information so you can learn how to best categorize the person you’re coaching.

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