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Is This Mentoring or Is It Coaching?
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I don't generally call myself a business consultant because people think a consultant is someone who comes in and tells you how to run your affairs. And, no-one knows your business like you do. I certainly don't!
I don't try to tell you what to do, I find out what you want, then team up with you to achieve it.
Coaching involves applying certain coaching techniques, and a coach will typically offer a hands-on approach to help and guide you.
In contrast, my clients like my hands-off "mentor" approach.
You see, everyone is basically uncoachable!
We grew up being taught to do for ourselves. From the time we started tying our own shoelaces, our parents encouraged us to be independent. At school, there was some classwork, but mostly we were graded on our own efforts. Try suggesting during tests that several of you do them as a team project! Your teachers would have given you some really negative feedback if you tried cooperating with others during exams. They even had a name for it - Cheating!
Once out into the world, we got a job, and, although we were now expected to work as a team, they still judged us on our individual efforts.
When you start your own business, you become really independent. Everything now rests on your shoulders. Everyone looks to you for instructions and direction. You are expected to know everything, have an answer for everything, be an expert in everything. Customers want to talk to the person in charge; Suppliers want to talk to the person who will pay their bills. You face the world alone. No wonder being coached goes against the grain!
And, yet, everyone can be mentored.
This is why I mentor my clients. Being the independent person you are, you will insist on directing your own progress. What you will gain from having me as a mentor is that I can stand aside from you and give you feedback on your self-directed efforts. Rather as if I was in a helicopter watching you make your way through the forest of your daily life. Not being caught up in your daily affairs, I can see further. As long as you have told me where you are going, I can help you get there better from 'the helicopter' than being on the ground with you.
Does that make sense? (Yes, it does! Let's do it!))
I used to be a workaholic! I bet you feel like that, sometimes, don't you? Or, all the time, maybe? Uptight and intense? Always chasing money? Ridiculously long hours? I felt I was under constant pressure. Now I set my own pace, have more free time, and still get more done. In studying how I went from one to the other, I realized I could help other people solve that problem, too.
Get ready to discover a different approach to life, business and money, where you will take charge. Isn't now a good time to take control of your business and your life?
Yes it is, Frederick. I'm ready to get started, NOW!
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