A coach or mentor has been making the difference between success and failure (or between survival and extinction) since the beginning of humanity. In fact, we have learned just about everything we know (that fire is hot and ice is cold) and can (from tying laces to driving) learn from someone. With a coach or mentor, you do this in a concentrated and accelerated form. Research shows that an employee with a mentor performs better, earns more, and climbs faster to the top of the monkey rock. Whether it's about climbing the career ladder as an employee, becoming financially independent as an entrepreneur or completing your thesis as a student; With coaching, you learn more and faster and you feel supported in a sometimes lonely struggle.
Why would I need a coach?
A coach is therefore extremely valuable for achieving your goals. Then why do so few people use coaching? This is mainly due to pride. Strangely enough, the most successful people (not the ones you read about in Private) on Earth are quite humble. They make the most use of coaches. Not because they can afford it, but because they realize that self-insight into their own potential, but especially their own limitations, paves the way for progress. People think they don't need help and they can manage on their own. They think that once the goal is known and the roads to it are clear, it will all work out. No less true! There are too many factors that play a role in the success or failure of your mission. It is precisely when you are about to give up that it is important to clarify the reason for this. For example, you can convince yourself that the goal you are striving for is too high, but your coach may find a completely different cause for your doubts. If you then start working on that, then that goal often turns out to be within reach. A professional Career coach can provide you with the right insight at the right time and then be a stick at the door.
Specifically, a coach can help you further in various ways, including by…
hold you liable for the completion of assignments and, for example, discuss them weekly;
help you if you are struggling with problems;
take your hand and make every effort to ensure that you reach your goal;
to protect you from pitfalls that you will encounter on your path.
What is a suitable coach for me?
The most important thing to look for when selecting a coach is that he or she is successful (according to your own definition) in the area where you want to be coached. As a starter within a company, you want a mentor who is 10 years further on the career ladder. If you want to learn how to drive, go for an experienced instructor. Then you know for sure that the person really knows what they are talking about and can do it for. Moreover, it is important to have a coach that you see as a role model. As a small child you probably also saw your parents as perfect role models (now you think you can do better;), so you took everything from them. This has a function: you learn very quickly because with every advice you are convinced that you have to follow it and not think about whether it is true.
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Secondly, a coach must be didactically strong: being able to effectively transfer his or her skills to you. Many excellent people are 'unknowingly capable'. They are very good at something, but do not know exactly how they are doing it, and certainly not how they can teach someone else. Take Marco van Basten. He was one of the best football players of his generation, but mediocre as a coach. If you look at old video images of Marco van Basten and ask him specific questions about his skills, this does not mean that you yourself will become a top striker (assuming that you also practice a lot). He must be able to convey it: to be able to 'codify' his skill (to be able to write a book about it). Moreover, he must be able to motivate you to take action, because And precisely in this part, the conversion of knowledge into action, is a coach of enormous value.
See also: A comprehensive guide to getting jobs.
Why would I need a coach?
A coach is therefore extremely valuable for achieving your goals. Then why do so few people use coaching? This is mainly due to pride. Strangely enough, the most successful people (not the ones you read about in Private) on Earth are quite humble. They make the most use of coaches. Not because they can afford it, but because they realize that self-insight into their own potential, but especially their own limitations, paves the way for progress. People think they don't need help and they can manage on their own. They think that once the goal is known and the roads to it are clear, it will all work out. No less true! There are too many factors that play a role in the success or failure of your mission. It is precisely when you are about to give up that it is important to clarify the reason for this. For example, you can convince yourself that the goal you are striving for is too high, but your coach may find a completely different cause for your doubts. If you then start working on that, then that goal often turns out to be within reach. A professional Career coach can provide you with the right insight at the right time and then be a stick at the door.
Specifically, a coach can help you further in various ways, including by…
hold you liable for the completion of assignments and, for example, discuss them weekly;
help you if you are struggling with problems;
take your hand and make every effort to ensure that you reach your goal;
to protect you from pitfalls that you will encounter on your path.
What is a suitable coach for me?
The most important thing to look for when selecting a coach is that he or she is successful (according to your own definition) in the area where you want to be coached. As a starter within a company, you want a mentor who is 10 years further on the career ladder. If you want to learn how to drive, go for an experienced instructor. Then you know for sure that the person really knows what they are talking about and can do it for. Moreover, it is important to have a coach that you see as a role model. As a small child you probably also saw your parents as perfect role models (now you think you can do better;), so you took everything from them. This has a function: you learn very quickly because with every advice you are convinced that you have to follow it and not think about whether it is true.
coach-mentor-vs-player
Secondly, a coach must be didactically strong: being able to effectively transfer his or her skills to you. Many excellent people are 'unknowingly capable'. They are very good at something, but do not know exactly how they are doing it, and certainly not how they can teach someone else. Take Marco van Basten. He was one of the best football players of his generation, but mediocre as a coach. If you look at old video images of Marco van Basten and ask him specific questions about his skills, this does not mean that you yourself will become a top striker (assuming that you also practice a lot). He must be able to convey it: to be able to 'codify' his skill (to be able to write a book about it). Moreover, he must be able to motivate you to take action, because And precisely in this part, the conversion of knowledge into action, is a coach of enormous value.
See also: A comprehensive guide to getting jobs.
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