Business Coaching: Do you have the know-how to become one?

Feb 7
12:22

2012

Jeffrey Sooey

Jeffrey Sooey

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Have you ever considered getting into business coaching? If you have, you must make sure that you are equipped with the skills, the knowledge and most especially the experience of running a business.

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Have you ever considered getting into business coaching? If you have,Business Coaching: Do you have the know-how to become one?  Articles you must make sure that you are equipped with the skills, the knowledge and most especially the experience of running a business. I have had my share of business coaches who do coaching but have not had the real world experience of business. This I believe is nonsense. You cannot do business coaching by just reading books on business. How can you share with your clients your experiences if you do not have any? How can you ensure that your methods will be successful or are reliable if you have not tried them out? You must have experienced the trials, challenges and of course the success of running a business to make an impact on your client. Your reputation and effectiveness as a coach can be questioned if your clients feel that you will not be able to give them credible advice.

Great coaches are not necessarily the most successful or richest businessmen. Most often than not, these businessmen are not good coaches. The best coaches are those that really learned from it all. They are the ones that worked hard for their business to succeed. They are the ones who put the most effort in their business and know what needs to be done for the success of any business because they experienced this first hand. 

If you are a coach and decide to go intobusiness coaching, you have carry a big responsibility on your hands. When you get into coaching and coach an individual, you have a responsibility to that individual and whatever results from your coaching will have an effect on that individual and his family. As a business coach, your coaching results will not only affect the individual and his family, but also his employees and all their family members. The decision of a manager or supervisor greatly affects all his employees which in turn affects the family especially in cases of loss of a job and loss of income. This truly adds to the pressure of becoming a business coach.

So if you decide on getting into business coaching, make sure that you have what it takes to be credible and effective business coach. Your coaching diploma may add to your prestige as a coach, but experience is still an effective means of learning to be a real business coach. So go out and get the real world experience that you need.