The Coach Connection Blog

Organizations do not measure the impact of their coaching investments

Bill Dueease — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 04:00:00 -0400

“The American Management Association (AMA) commissioned the Institute for Corporate Productivity to conduct a study entitled “Coaching-A Global Study of Successful Practices-Current Trends and Future Possibilities 2008-2018” This is the third comparison of the findings of this independent study with the methods practiced by TCC for over 7 years that further validates that TCC’s very unique method of connecting TCC clients with their best-matched coaches provides the most successful process for coaching clients to achieve their coachable goals.

“The AMA/Institute for Corporate Productivity study found that only about a quarter of respondents assess coaching’s bottom-line impact on the business to a high extent, but even this might represent an uptick in such practices, based on previous reports. “

Furthermore the study reports:

“So far, however, the literature indicates that relatively few organizations have formal procedures in place to measure coaching’s success. McCormick (2007) polled 500 readers of Personnel Today and reports that 67% of respondents say their organizations don’t measure coaching ROI and an additional 20% say they simply don’t know if coaching outcomes are measured. Furthermore, not only are formal measurement systems not yet in place, many companies (some of which have used executive coaches for years) aren’t even sure what they would measure if they had to. In fact, 44% of respondents in McCormick’s study (2007) believe it is impossible to measure the ROI of coaching at all, and, if their organizations must measure it, then anecdotal evidence of its effectiveness is all that’s possible.”

“One study suggests that only a minority of organizations assess the impact of their coaching interventions (McDermott et al., 2007), and another finds that a scant 9% of survey respondents said they formally assess coaching’s return on investment (Sherpa, 2007).”

In essence, most organizations do not measure the results of their coaching investments, and do not appear to measure the value of the results, if any, of the coaching used.

The success rates of coaching were tied to whether organizations measured success

Yet, the study reported that the success rates of the coaching engagements were directly related to whether the organization made an effort to measure coaching success, regardless of the measurement methods used.

“MAJOR FINDING-The more frequently respondents reported using a measurement method, the more likely they were to report success in their coaching programs.”

Thus the study concluded that the success rates of coaching would improve for any organization that chose to use some method to measure the successes of the coaching engagements. Yet, a minority of organizations does not even bother to measure success.

Organizations can improve coaching successes by just measuring results

I find these two conclusions of the study to be remarkable revelations. I was amazed to learn how few organizations attempt to measure success rates for coaching assignments. I was less surprised to learn of the strong correlation between successful coaching and the act of just measuring success. Where just measuring success increases the success rate.

TCC has published a synopsis of an ROI calculation for organizations by MetrixGlobal, LLC for over 6 years that showed a ROI of over 529%.

Yet, this and other calculations of the ROI are still subjective, and can be difficult to determine, but they are so high that even the most conservative ROI calculation will be high.

TCC determined that the true measurement of any coaching engagement is whether, at least, the initial coachable goals of the individual clients were achieved. This study appears to confirm this opinion. TCC has been measuring whether clients achieve their initial coachable goals since 2001. Approximately 96% of TCC’s clients have done so. TCC clients must express at least one coachable goal to TCC before coaching will be allowed to commence. Thus, the client, the coach, and TCC all know the client’s initial coachable goals going into the coaching process. Since the achievement of these goals can only be determined and declared by the clients, we use continued follow up with the clients to discover their success rates.

Another thing that we learned is that approximately 80% of TCC’s clients added and achieved other coachable goals as they proceeded into the coaching process. TCC has not been privy to these added coachable goals, unless the clients voluntarily reveal them, because they are confidential actions between the coaches and clients. Thus, we can only guess at the 80% number.

One of the characteristics of all coachable goals that TCC clients have generated (15 different coachable goals so far) is that they are all very remarkable goals that sound too good to be true. The benefits and rewards from achieving any of the coachable goals created by TCC clients will most certainly be incredible. That also holds true for the main coachable goals outlined by the Study for organizations. Two of TCC’s coachable goals are the same as the two primary goals selected by organizations, when they chose any goals. In essence, attaining these coachable goals will be so beneficial, that calculating the degree of benefits (ROI) would probably be too difficult to be productive.

Hopefully more organizations will read and use the valuable information presented in the “Coaching-A Global Study of Successful Practices-Current Trends and Future Possibilities 2008-2018,” so they can also enjoy the remarkable rewards generated by their employees accomplishing their coachable goals.

How to prevent coaching relationships from ending before the goals (successes) are achieved.

Bill Dueease — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 11:00:00 -0400

“The American Management Association (AMA) commissioned the Institute for Corporate Productivity to conduct a study entitled “Coaching-A Global Study of Successful Practices-Current Trends and Future Possibilities 2008-2018” This is the second comparison of the findings of this independent study with the methods practiced by TCC for over 7 years that further validates that TCC’s very unique method of connecting TCC clients with their best-matched coaches provides the most successful process for coaching clients to achieve their coachable goals.

The study reported that “Nearly one-quarter of respondents (24%) indicated they had, indeed, terminated coaching assignments.” When you consider that a majority of organizations do not measure the ROI of coaching, (the subject of my next blog) I wonder if the completion of the organizational coaching “assignments” resulted in the individual clients achieving their coachable goals? I feel this low percentage does not fully represent the lack of success rates for organizational coaching.

The study revealed in-depth reasons why the coaching relationships (called assignments) were terminated before the clients achieved their goals. The reasons given by the “over 1,000 executives and managers questioned” once again confirmed the reasons why TCC’s pre-coaching consultations of all prospective clients is so important. Through the pre-coaching consultations with prospective clients, TCC and the clients will both be assured that all four of the four key conditions to successful coaching are met to suit the clients before coaching is begun. Briefly, the four key conditions that must be met to suit the individual coaching clients before coaching starts to assure the success of coaching are:

1.The client must have at least one coachable goal

2. The client must be ready for coaching

3. The client must be matched with the coach they really like, respect and feel a close trusting relationship with.

4. The coach must be an experienced, motivated coach, who does not try to mix training, consulting teaching etc. into the relationship, and who has coached many others like the client to great successes, and has the natural gift of coaching.

When coaching clients feel that all four of these key conditions are fully met to suit them, then the chances of success are excellent. TCC will not proceed with coaching unless a client confirms that keys #1. and #2. are met by the client. AND TCC guarantees that key’s #3. and #4. are met through TCC’s Initial Period Money Back Guarantee.

The Study reported the following Major Finding

“MAJOR FINDING The top reason cited for terminating a coaching assignment was a mismatch between the coach and the employee. “

TCC fully agrees that the match between client and coach is critical and TCC provides clients with a Money Back Guarantee that the match will be made. Further details by the study reveals the following reasons the coaching process was terminated before success:

“To what extent do you agree that the termination was based on the following reasons?” The numbers represent the “Percent agreeing or strongly agreeing.” I have added how TCC’s program to meet the four key conditions would prevent these obstacles from occurring.

“Mismatches between coach and employee 65%” TCC Guarantees that TCC clients will match their best-suited coach or TCC returns their money

“Questionable expertise of coaches 53%” TCC Guarantees that all TCC coaches will have many years of experience, have exemplary success rates for similar clients and are very capable coaches. TCC has accepted only 168 coaches out of over 2,000 coaches who have applied and TCC has released 38 of those coaches due to dropping below TCC’s very high standards.

“Inability of employee to change 42%” Prospective TCC clients discover their readiness for coaching, which is key number two, before they begin coaching. If the clients are found not to be ready, coaching through TCC does not begin.

“ROI not easily measureable 39%” The reason TCC was formed and exists is that TCC clients actually achieve their coachable goals. Determining whether TCC clients achieve their initial coachable goals is an easily measured event. The success of TCC is measured by the high success rates of our clients.

“Unwillingness of employee to engage in the coaching process 37%” Once again, this is a client readiness factor. TCC discovers whether TCC clients are voluntarily willing to participate in the coaching process before they are accepted as part of key condition number 2

“Lack of time for employee’s participation 33%” Once again, this is a client readiness factor. TCC discovers whether TCC clients are voluntarily willing to participate in the coaching process before they are accepted as part of key condition number 2

“Insufﬁcient funding 33%” Once again, this is a client readiness factor. TCC discovers whether TCC clients are willing and capable of investing in themselves, the most important asset they will ever have, before they are accepted as part of key condition number 2

“Not seen as urgent by top management 33%” Normally, this would not be an issue with TCC because our total focus is on the success of our individual clients and management factors do not enter the equation.

Another Major Finding of the study also further validates key condition #1

“MAJOR FINDING The more a company has a clear reason for using a coach, the more likely that its coaching process will be viewed as successful. The fact that each of the purposes was significantly correlated with coaching success suggests that organizations that simply have a well-defined purpose are more likely to report coaching success than those organizations that aren’t sure what their purposes in coaching are.”

Fulfilling TCC’s 4 key conditions to successful coaching eliminates obstacles to coaching success.

The study revealed the major reasons coaching relationships are terminated before the goals are achieved. Preventing these premature terminations would virtually assure successes by allowing clients to actually achieve their coachable goals to generate the remarkable benefits these goals produce. Preventing these obstacles will also save considerable money, time, and effort on pursuing coaching without success. The unique pre-coaching processes TCC designed and use have been preventing the specific terminations described in the study and further explains why TCC clients achieve at least their initial goals at a success rate of over 96%.

Having a clear coachable goal is a key condition to coaching success

The study also revealed that the rate of success of coaching is determined by the clarity of their goals for coaching going in. The reason anyone engages a personal coach (whether called a business, executive, life, or career coach) is to accomplish his or her coachable goals. The coaching process is about completion, or accomplishment where the clients reach their goals. Should the client not achieve their goals, then the coaching was not successful, and many times the effort and money spent could be considered misspent. Coaching is like building a house. Spending money with contractors and suppliers and expending the time and effort to build a house is only worth it after the house is completed. Who would want to move into a partially constructed house? Thus, it is imperative that the house be completed as defined. Likewise, it is just as important that the coaching process be completed to the full completion of the client’s coachable goals.

Global Study of Successful Coaching Practices Confirms TCC has been doing it right

Bill Dueease — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:18:14 -0400

The Study entitled “Coaching-A Global Study of Successful Practices-Current Trends and Future Possibilities 2008-2018” substantiates that TCC’s very unique method of connecting TCC clients with their best-matched coaches provides the most successful process for coaching clients to achieve their coachable goals.
That is a mouthful, but accurate.

“The American Management Association (AMA) commissioned the Institute for Corporate Productivity to conduct a global survey of coaching practices in today’s organizations, to gain a better understanding of both the promise and perils of coaching.”

TCC has assisted over 1,500 clients to achieve their remarkable coachable goals at an incredible success rate of over 96% for the past seven years by employing a very focused method of connecting clients with their ideally matched coaches. TCC was created to provide the best one-stop location for anyone to achieve their coachable goals with the greatest success rate and the least amount of time and least cost. Mission accomplished!
Although this independent study concentrated only on organizational coaching by questioning over 1,000 executives and managers, it came to the same conclusions about the best practices of implementing the coaching process to assist clients to achieve the highestratesof success that TCC created over eight years ago, and has been using ever since. The authors of the study arrived at these verysameconclusions as TCC without TCC having any involvement or influence in the study.

Comparison of the Eleven Major Study Findings and how TCC operates.

The key findings of this study and how they confirm TCC’s practices are shown below for your comparison with appropriate links to TCC web pages that provide further details.

“Finding One: Coaching is used by only about half of today’s companies.”

This supports the successful use of coaching overall and of course TCC has enjoyed even more success.

“Finding Two: Coaching continues to gain in popularity.”

This supports the expected increase in the use of coaching. TCC has also enjoyed a continued increase and expects more as well.

“Finding Three: Coaching is associated with higher performance. Respondents from organizations that use coaching more than in the past are also more likely to report two kinds of advantages:
1. They’re more likely to report that their organizations have higher levels of success in the area of coaching.
2. They’re more likely to say that their organizations are performing well in the market, as determined by self-reports in the combined areas of revenue growth, market share, profitability, and customer satisfaction.”

These findings totally support the remarkable results achieved by TCC’s clients and the value of the benefits they attract. People achieve higher success rates by using a coach and their organizations also attain higher overall success rates when they use coaches.

“Finding Four: Coaching is primarily aimed at boosting individual performance. The desire to improve individual “performance/productivity” is the most widely cited purpose of coaching.”

Organizations naturally select the coachable goals of coaching their members to become more successful and productive managers and executives. TCC agrees that these are the most popular goals for organizations. However, TCC has found that three other coachable goals are more popular in the open market. The more popular coachable goals, in descending order are:

1. Discover and obtain your ideal income position, where you Go to Play Every Day because you love what you do and do what you love, you are so good at producing quality results and value, that they attract considerable rewards, both financially and otherwise.

2. Become a far more successful and productive business owner. Says it all.

3. Discover and get life balance, where you get to enjoy and thrive in all three of your lives, simultaneously and without internal conflicts or guilt. Your three lives being your work life, (including motherhood) your personal life (your health and spirituality) and your family life (your relationships with the blood relatives you decide to keep and anyone else you allow in your inner circle)

“Finding Five: Clarity of purpose counts. The more a company has a clear reason for using a coach, the more likely that its coaching process will be viewed as successful.”

This conclusion fully supports the first of the four key conditions to successful coaching that TCC insists are met to suit all TCC clients. The first key condition is that clients must have at least ONE coachable goal to accomplish; otherwise engaging a coach would not be advisable. TCC will not accept individual clients or organizations who do not have their own individual coachable goals. The study confirmed that TCC saved many individuals and organizations considerable money and time by not accepting them as clients, because they did not have coachable goals.

“Finding Six: Evaluating coaching’s performance may help boost success rates. The more frequently respondents reported using a measurement method, the more likely they were to report success in their coaching programs.”

TCC has employed a very effective, yet simple measurement method since inception that supports this conclusion. TCC follows up with TCC clients to discover if they accomplished, at least, their initial coachable goals. Both TCC and TCC clients are clear about their initial coachable goals going in, and TCC’s clients are the eventual authority to decide if they achieved their initial goals, and TCC asks them. Hence, the basis of reporting a success rate of over 96%.

“Finding Seven: It pays to interview. Having an interview with the prospective coach has the strongest relationship with reporting a successful coaching program.”

We believe that interviewing prospective coaches is important, but we feel that the interview itself is less successful than actually experiencing a coaching session. This is why TCC clients participate in sample coaching sessions with at least three (can be more) TCC Member Coaches, to give TCC clients the clearest, most effective, and most efficient means to find their best-suited coach. http://www.findyourcoach.com/life-coach-cost.htm#mbglife

“Finding Eight: It pays to match the right coach with the right client. Matching people according to expertise and personality seems to be the best strategies.”

This fully confirms Key Conditions numbers three and four to successful coaching employed by TCC. TCC thinks so much of the matchmaking condition that TCC GUARANTEES that TCC clients will find their best suited coach, through using a very unique and effective matching process by TCC and the client, and that TCC coaches have the exceptional experience, motivation, confidence and capacity to coach each TCC client.

“Finding Nine: External training seems to work best. Externally based methods of providing training on coaching are most strongly correlated with overall coaching success, though they are less often used.”

TCC does not dispute that attaining coach training outside the organizations will produce higher coaching success. In fact TCC does not consider Internal coaching to be real coaching, because of the conflicts of multiple masters for the employee coach. The study also confirmed this by stating: “External coaches, on the other hand, can bring greater objectivity, fresher perspectives, higher levels of confidentiality, and experience”

“Finding Ten: Coaching’s international future looks bright. Compared with the North American sample, organizations in the international group have not had coaching programs in place for as long, but more in this group plan to implement coaching programs in the future.”

TCC agrees with this conclusion that people in other countries are beginning to realize the remarkable successes they can achieve through engaging their best-matched coach. TCC’s International activity has blossomed into over 15 other countries.

“Finding Eleven: Peer coaching needs to become more effective. Although a little over half of responding organizations use peer coaching, only about a third of respondents who use it consider it to be very effective or extremely effective.”

Once again TCC agrees that coaching one’s peers would not allow all four of the key conditions to be met, and has proven to be much less effective than using an independent, professional coach.

Bottom Line conclusion

If you are an organization seeking to get the best results from the coaching process, or better yet, if you are an individual who wishes to achieve any coachable goal faster, more completely, with less effort and less costly, you may want to read this study to find out how. Or of course you could contact TCC and experience the best practices first hand as outlined in the study to obtain the highest degree of success in achieving your coachable goals.

More details will be provided in subsequent blogs to prove up the findings of the study and corroborate the reasons for the exemplary success rates of TCC clients.

Talents! A Remarkable Untapped Phenomenon

Bill Dueease — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 05:00:00 -0400

What are talents anyway? A talent is the capacity to perform certain activities or process certain information in a way that is very easy, natural and most often times enjoyable to the person. A talented person is capable of doing something easier, faster, with less effort, and more naturally than most other people. Talents can be physical, mental or emotional or any combination of all three.

We are all born with God given talents. But these talents are different types, different degrees and different forms for different people No two people have the exact same talents at the same degrees. I believe this is true even with twins.

Once a person is born with talents, I believe that they will not be able to gain additional talents or alter the ones they have. I do not believe people can learn new talents in school, or acquire them from others.

People can however learn new skills to enhance their God given talents. Skill training is what basketball players with exceptional basketball talents learn and hone to become the excellent basketball players that their talents give them the capacity to become. This also holds true for artists, doctors, leaders, mathematicians, and the list goes on. People must learn the information and develop their specialized skills to take advantage of their talents. People with exceptional talents that do not study their fields and develop their skills are people with Potential, but no results.

People must discover their many different talents

However, when God gave us our talents at birth he did not give us another important ingredient. He did not give us a LIST of our different and unique talents. They are and remain a mystery to each of us. Every person must discover and learn their own unique God given talents. But how do people discover and define all of their talents? There are no formal methods, processes, or schools that are focused and capable of assisting people to discover their true talents. There are lots of different assessment tests and such that purport to reveal talents, but in truth they are very inaccurate, very general, and unfortunately very misleading. They frequently cause more harm than good.

Baseball teams compete to discover baseball talents

Baseball teams hire “Talent Scouts” to roam high schools and even younger leagues to observe and discover kids with the natural talents for baseball. These talent scouts have special observation skills and talents, a special motivation to seek the truth and clarity, and an ability to communicate the special talents they observe in others. They sign these youngsters to contracts and the teams have them play in developmental leagues to improve their baseball skills, baseball knowledge and baseball confidence through training and practice. Frequently, these players develop so well that they become the effective and productive baseball players they and the teams want them to become to create winning baseball teams. This system has been working very well for decades. Many youngsters have been brought into the baseball world to become very successful and happy players because a “scout” discovered them. Most players would probably not have pursued a baseball career without being discovered by a “scout.”

It is not easy for people to discover their own talents.

People are on the inside looking out. It is much easier for people to recognize and describe the talents of other people than themselves. But to truly discover the talents in others, a person must want to look for the talents in others, must have the awareness to recognize talents when they appear, must have the freedom of restraints to acknowledge different talents and degrees, must have the honesty to reveal the true talents, and the connection with the person to communicate openly without barriers what these talents are.

Engage your personal coach to discover your special talents

A talent discovery person must become a clear mirror to the other person. This is exactly what a personal coach does and the reason personal coaches work with their clients. The fastest, most accurate, most complete, and least costly way for people to uncover their many and varied talents is to engage their own personal coach. Personal coaches are trained, skilled and have the talents (I call this special talent “the gift of coaching”) to easily seek and discover the many talents of their clients and reveal them in a confidential and guilt free environment. Personal coaches are “Talent Scouts” who are not limited to any specific talent.

The greatest wasted resources on earth

Think about how many people go through their entire lives without discovering their talents and without putting them to great use for themselves and others. Also think about how many people are misled abut their true talents, and are even penalized because of their talents. The vast resources that exist in all of us are wasted unless people are able to not only discover and understand their own unique talents, but are able to develop the skills and knowledge to maximize their true potentials. It all starts with the discovery and understanding of our unique talents.

Examples of unique talents almost being wasted

Michael Jordan was cut from as a sophomore from his high school basketball team. Albert Einstein was required to repeat the fifth grade. Luckily for everyone, others recognized their talents and reflected them back to Michael and Albert so both could develop their remarkable talents to achieve unbelievable accomplishments later in life.

Discover and maximize your personal talents?

If you are not aware of all of your talents, consider engaging a personal coach to discover them so you to can develop the ones you want into remarkable adventures and accomplishments. Once you discover your many hidden talents you can employ them to create your “ideal income position.” This is the position where you get to go to play every day, because you love what you do, do what you love and are rewarded so well for the valuable results you produce.

Why people Do Not Have to become so unhappy in their work.

Bill Dueease — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 05:00:00 -0400

Without knowing it or not, virtually 99% of working people use the same process to select their careers and work positions. They use the Trial & Error work selection method. Emphasis on Error.

How does the Trial & Error Work Selection Method work?

First, people look for the potential work positions that exist within their present circle of interest. They evaluate the possible choices. This gives lots of people a false sense of power, because they feel in control and superior during the evaluation. They try to guess what they might like to do and which position would be best for them.

Second, they eventually select a position to give it a try.

Third, they begin working at the new position.

Fourth, they adjust to the position as presented, they adjust to the company (if there is one) they adjust to the culture of the industry, they adjust to their boss or bosses (if they have any) they adjust to the requests of their customers, and they adjust to the written or unwritten code of expectations and conduct for the position. Because they were not clear about the position or what they wanted the position to be, they are required to adjust, and frequently adjust dramatically in many ways to conform to others.

Fifth, they eventually become bored, disillusioned, unhappy, nonproductive, or just plain upset at working in the position that evolved after they made all of the adjustments to suit others.

Sixth, they decide to change positions to seek better working conditions.

Seventh, they use the same Trial & Error work selection method to find, evaluate, and select their next work position.

Eighth, they transfer to their new work position and begin the adjustment process all over again. But this time the adjustments will probably be different in some, if not many, respects. But, once again they adjust.

Ninth, they eventually become bored, disillusioned, unhappy, nonproductive or just plain upset at working in the new position that evolved after they made all of the adjustments to suit others. They get the same feelings they had from the previous position, but notice that now the scenery, the people, the duties, and rules are all different. But they feel the same bad feelings.

Tenth, they continue on again to select their next work position using the Trial & Error method to eventually generate the same results.

Sound Familiar?

People get discouraged because they used the wrong selection process

After a while people start to feel down, confused, or insecure because they cannot seem to fit in and find the right work position for them. They look around and see others who appear to be much happier and more successful. This can be upsetting. So they feel a need to put on a show to convince themselves and others that they too enjoy what they are doing. Others around them are most likely in the same unhappy work positions, and they too are probably putting on a similar show of happiness and bliss.

Or people start blaming themselves for not finding their desirable work positions. They get down on themselves. Their confidence and self esteem decline. They loose interest in their work, and even in their lives. Their performance and energy levels decline. And the downward spiral continues until something dramatic happens. They might even resort to escape methods of dugs, alcohol, or exotic lifestyle changes.

Or they choose to find alternate solutions. They seek advice. They take tests. They take additional education classes. They try to get college degrees. All to improve their hire ability, and many times their confidence and self esteem.

Or many people just choose to stick it out with their latest position until they reach the ballyhooed paradise called retirement, thinking that the bliss of retirement will justify their suffering at work for all of their years. Then they use the same Trial & Error method to select their retirement life. What happens at retirement is another confusing story.

The US Bureau of Labor has reported that the average worker in the US will change EMPLOYERS 10.2 times during their working life. I believe this statistic confirms that a vast majority of people use and follow the Trial & Error Method in their journey to get their best work position.

Yet, there is nothing wrong with the job switchers

There is NOTHING wrong with the people who find themselves in mismatching work positions. The bare truth is these people were virtually guaranteed to become disconnected with their work positions. Why? Because they used the wrong work selection method. The Trial & Error method forces people to try, adjust, and retry so many distasteful dead end work positions.

What work selection process really works?

Is there a better work selection method? Yes there is! But it did not appear until around 1992, and only a very few people were aware of it. But today in 2008 far more people have, at least, heard of this new work selection process. The new work selection process that will virtually guarantee that people WILL discover and connect with their ideal income position, where they get to go to play every day, do what they love and love what they do, and are very well rewarded for the excellent value and results they produce, because they are very good at their new work position is called career coaching. A career coach is really a personal coach who specializes in assisting people to transition into their ideal income positions.

How does career coaching work?

Your career coach will focus completely on you to assist you to unravel the mystery within you first. Your coach will ask you coaching questions to get you to open up and reveal things you have not revealed to anyone before, including yourself. Your coach will then reflect (mirror) this new information about you back to you so you discover the inner working of what drives and limits you. You will discover for the first time the following: your passions, your self-imposed obstacles, (the things you do not what to do) your beliefs and values, (your spirituality) your talents, and your priorities. When you discover these key five core ingredients about you, you will become the worlds leading expert on you.

You and your career coach custom build your ideal income position

You and your coach will then design and custom build your ideal income position to allow you to fulfill your passions and priorities, follow your beliefs, maximize your talents and avoid as many of your self imposed obstacles as you can. After designing your ideal income position, you and your coach will go obtain your ideal income position so you are operating in it on your terms. You will no longer adjust to the position. Instead, you will adjust the conditions of the position to suit you. In other words, you and your career coach will become the architect team of discovering and designing your custom position, just like you and your architect would design your custom home. You start with the foundation and build up from there.

You will have a much easier time getting your ideal income position

Because you now KNOW exactly what your ideal income position is and what it is NOT, you will have a far easier time obtaining that position than ever before. First, you will eliminate using the Trial & Error method. (This alone vastly improves your success rate) Second, you will KNOW what you want and only focus on getting it. Third, you will be so naturally enthusiastic, so naturally talented and capable, and be so good at what you love, you will become far more desirable to potential customers or potential bosses. In essence, they will seek you, because you will make them look and feel good. The acquisition step has proven to be the easiest and quickest in this process. And when you obtain that position you will continue your self-discovery to make sure the conditions around you adjust to you, so you will not be led or forced to adjust to conditions of others.

The career coaching work selection method works!

We at TCC have assisted hundreds of people to discover themselves, design their ideal income positions, and actually obtain them on their terms. Our clients have made remarkable, prosperous, and enjoyable career transitions through career coaching.

Pick the Right Career Coach for you.

You will want to find and engage the career coach who will assist you to attain your ideal income position. Unfortunately, you will not want to hire just any career coach. You will want to be very careful and selective. There are four key conditions you will want to be met, TO SUIT YOU, before you engage your personal coach. These are universal, and are needed no matter where you find your career coach. Briefly they are:
1. You must have at least one coachable goal
2. You must be ready for coaching
3. Your career coach must really like and totally connect with your
4. Your career coach must be an experienced and capable career coach with the gift of coaching and who will only coach you.

Get Your Highest Return (ROI) for Your Investments During Bad Times

Bill Dueease — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 04:00:00 -0400

The recent poor economic conditions have changed the landscape for where people would consider investing their money to receive secure, continuous, and profitable returns on their investment dollars.

Traditional investment opportunities look bleak

1. Real Estate has declined rapidly and is still in the downtrend.

2. The Stock Markets have all taken downward hits and are still very volatile and iffy.

3. The Commodities Markets have all risen to record highs and might still have some ways to go, but the risk reward for additional investments looks shaky.

4. Interest Bearing Accounts yield very low rates that are approaching levels below inflation.

As you can see these major investment areas are not providing the Return On Investment (ROI) and security that would give you enough confidence to attract your investment dollars.

Where is the best investment opportunity?

Where can you invest your money and obtain secure, continuous, and very profitable returns? The answer has been right there all along. The best place anyone can invest their money to reap the greatest ROI with the highest security and confidence is to invest in YOURSELF.

The greatest asset you will ever have is YOURSELF.

You are and will always be the most valuable and most productive asset you will ever have. When you invest in YOU and grow and improve as a person you cannot lose. Self-growth even in small levels brings considerable additional rewards and excellent returns on your self-growth investments. Think of the new opportunities and rewards that you receive when you graduate from High School and the greater levels you receive when you graduate from college. When you improve the core asset of yourself, it attracts more wealth, both financial and personal at much higher levels than the cost of the self-improvement investments. For example athletes receive rewards in recognition, power, fame, money, and adoration that are considerably greater in value and staying power than the amount they invested in increased sports coaching and training to increase their athletic skills and productivity. Medical professionals invest considerable time and effort in continued education and learning to improve their medical knowledge, shills and confidence. Their abilities to provide better and better medical solutions to their patients increase, and translate into more productive and lucrative practices.

Why risk all of your investment money in the less secure and less profitable investments of today? Carve out a portion of your investment dollars to invest in yourself now. The conditions could not be better, even though the economy appears to be declining. In fact, as others loose confidence, loose momentum, and loose interest as they scramble to protect their dwindling resources, you will stand out as you grow by investing in yourself. You will be improving yourself to move forward in the areas of your life that mean the most and you will be gaining momentum.

Possible ways you can invest in yourself to grow and improve as a person?

1. Invest in improving your health. There are all kinds of ways this can be done. Weight loss program. Exercise program. Take up an exercising sport. Eliminate unhealthy habits. Invest in activities you would enjoy that will also improve the health and conditioning of your body. Whatever you do or invest in to improve the overall health of your body will result in very valuable benefits to you in many ways. You will gain more energy, more stamina, more alertness, and more self-esteem. You will also reduce sickness down time, reduce the costs to repair your body through sickness and other body breakdowns, and you will reduce the mistakes you would make in every day decisions because you were not fully alert to think completely and clearly.

2. Invest in learning new information about subjects you like and can use to your benefit. Take classes, read books, research online information to gain more knowledge about languages, computer programs, financial information or whatever you feel will benefit you because you have become more knowledgeable. Pick subjects and information you want to learn and that you can use for personal growth.

Taking classes in subjects you have no interest in just to get grades for a degree will produce much less improvement in you, the asset you are investing in. You are spending time, effort, and money to cram information into your personal knowledge base, that you will most likely have little interest in and that you will probably forget and rarely use after you complete your exams. But if you earn a degree you might be able to use it to convince others you know something. And this could be a valuable document for marketing yourself.

3. Invest in a personal coach to accomplish any coachable goals you might have. A coachable goal is “a future place you want to be, that requires you to grow and improve as a person to achieve it.” By using a personal coach you will unravel the mystery of you by discovering what really drives you, motivates you, limits you and what is really important to you. You will dramatically increase your true knowledge and understanding of you. This is self-awareness. And self-awareness is considered the best form of self-improvement. You will also achieve your coachable goals to reach places you had previously thought to be out of reach. You get the best of both worlds. That is why the Return On Investment (ROI) for engaging a personal coach has proven to be so remarkably high over the years. One of many studies calculated the ROI of investing in a personal coach to exceed 500%. This looks real good when compared to the 2.5% in interest you might be able to get from an interest bearing account.

By using a personal coach to achieve your chosen coachable goals, you gain two huge rewards. Not only do you directly gain the remarkable benefits you receive from the coachable goals you select, which you will undoubtedly choose to be very valuable for you, but you will also gain the remarkable benefits of the self-awareness personal growth of YOU, which will produce even more valuable benefits.

It is your money! Invest your money wisely

You are the most valuable and beneficial asset you can ever invest in. I encourage you to pick any one or more of the different ways to invest in yourself and enjoy the remarkable personal, emotional, and financial rewards you will receive by improving YOU in any way.

Why there is so much confusion about Life Coaching

Bill Dueease — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 11:53:17 -0400

The struggle by coaches to market their coaching services has become a very competitive and misleading process. There are over ...

Response to "The Tyranny of Flawlessness" by Nancy Rommelmann

Bill Dueease — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 13:50:30 -0400

Nancy Rommelmann in her April 9, 2008 blog entitlied "The Tyranny of Flawlessness" claimed that the rise in ...

Life Coaching discovers and develops the Greatest Untapped Resource in the World

Bill Dueease — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 19:02:00 -0400

I believe that the greatest wealth in the world is hidden and virtually untapped. I believe that the greatest wealth ...

How does life coaching work?

Bill Dueease — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 08:45:28 -0400

Life coaching provides a necessary and valuable additional method for you to improve your life in many different ways, including ...

Response to: “Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Business” by Brent Bowers

Bill Dueease — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 11:59:45 -0400

Brent Bowers wrote an article entitled “Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Business” that was published in the ...

Compare Life Coaching to Consulting

Bill Dueease — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 01:00:00 -0400

Are you confused about how life coaching relates to consulting? Many people mistakenly assume that the life coaching process and ...

How teenagers and young adults relate to life coaching.

Bill Dueease — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 01:00:00 -0400

Teenagers and young adults in their early twenties can extract a great deal from and get exceptional value from the ...

The 10 human improvement processes

Bill Dueease — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 17:00:00 -0500

People all over the world strive to improve themselves and their lives in countless ways. Have you stopped to look ...

TCC Success Story #0397

Bill Dueease — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 07:28:34 -0500

Here’s another TCC Client success story for your reading pleasure. Kim came to TCC at the age of 61. She ...

Why Being Coached Feels So Different (and So Good)

Bill Dueease — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 12:45:41 -0500

Experiencing true life coaching under the right conditions will most often feel very different and even strange. You will be ...

Hurdle Number Four: How do you reap the full benefits from life coaching to get the best value for your investment?

Bill Dueease — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 15:49:44 -0500

Situation: Engaging a life coach is a life altering investment in you. You will want to have goals to be ...

Hurdle number three: How do you wade through the thousands of life coaches to find the right life coach for you?

Bill Dueease — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 10:30:56 -0500

Situation: One of the most difficult obstacles facing anyone is the daunting task of dealing with the estimated 25,000 ...

Starting Over Confuses Viewers About True Life Coaching

Christy — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 15:05:52 -0500

The daytime television program called Starting Over has been on the air for about three years now. Starting Over is a scripted, Hollywood, dramatized entertainment TV show. It features women with many different life problems, who have been sequestered in a house under controlled conditions. The show produces good theater and entertaining drama as these women are followed around 24/7 with cameras recording their struggles to overcome their problems. The show provides at least two people they call “Life Coaches” and at least one consulting psychologist to help these women overcome their problems. The show will also provide other resources including makeup artists, hair stylists, and even Jenny Craig to help these women improve their appearance and lose weight, as part of their path to overcome their problems.

Hurdle Number Two: Is Hiring a Life Coach Right for You?

Bill Dueease — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 12:40:19 -0500

The Situation: The life coaching process is only one of the ten human improvement processes available to you to improve any aspect of your life. If you have decided that you want to improve your life is some manner, you will want to figure out how to actually reach your goals. Figuring out how will involve selecting the best-suited human improvement process or processes from the list below to accomplish your objectives. The best suited process or processes for you to use are governed by what your situation is, and by what you want to accomplish. As an example you might consider using the consulting process (hiring a lawyer) or using the self-help process (do it yourself) to solve a legal problem. Another example is to attend a series of training classes, use a personal tutor (teacher), or even use the self-help process to gain the skills and knowledge to design web sites or to play golf. Here are what I consider to be the ten most popular human improvement processes. I have also provided examples of goals or improvements a person might gain from using each process to give you an idea of the differences and similarities of their purposes.

Special TCC Announcement!

Christy — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 13:58:35 -0500

The fee for TCC’s Initial Month’s Money-Back Guaranteed Period of Coaching will be changed from $300 to $349 on February 15, 2006. During this Initial Period you will still receive a minimum of Six (6) coaching sessions, and TCC will continue to take the entire risk, because the Initial Period is covered by a full, no questions asked, Money-Back Guarantee.

Give the Gift of Life Coaching

Christy — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 16:29:19 -0500

Give the experience of life coaching to someone you love. Provide your loved one the ability to discover the life improvement possibilities through life coaching, and to allow them to experience the wonders of being coached by their own personally matched highly experienced TCC Coach. This special Gift program is different than TCC’s normal Initial Period offering. We at TCC want this coaching experience to be the exceptional gift you deserve, but we also know that there is a possibility that your loved one will not be ready for life coaching. Thus, TCC is offering to explain and interview your loved one beforehand to be sure life coaching will provide you the wonderful gift you expect. You pay only $300 for a minimum of six coaching sessions to someone you love, and if the recipient of your gift or his or her TCC Advocate feels that life coaching is not just right for him or her, TCC will refund your $300 before coaching begins.

The Importance of Confidentiality in Life Coaching

Bill Dueease — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 17:10:03 -0500

One of the basic cannons of life coaching is that everything that transpires between you and your life coach be kept extremely confidential. The ethics of the life coaching profession mandate that your life coach not breach the confidentiality of your coaching sessions. This is vital to you as a coaching client.

What is the Difference Between aLife Coach, a Business Coach or a CareerCoach?

Bill Dueease — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 06:00:00 -0500

Looking around the Internet, you will probably find over a dozen different types of life type coaches listed and promoted. Shoot, we at The Coach Connection list thirteen different types of coaches on our web site alone. All of these coaching choices present a bewildering picture, and we even contribute to your confusion. Goodness, not only is the life coaching process probably new to you, but now it appears that you will have to also figure out which type of coach will be right for you from so many different choices. You might even think you have to pick the right type of coach first. But how can you do this when there are so many choices and no way to understand the differences well enough to make the right choice. Where do you start?

Using Certification to Pick Your Coach is Not Enough!

Bill Dueease — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 10:56:55 -0500

Today I am posting a question from a prospective client in the “research phase” of hiring a coach and my subsequent response. Dear Coach Connection, I am still discussing different coaching options but wanted to know whether it would be possible based on our phone call for you to line me up with three different coaches who are ICF certified? Let me know what you think. Thanks! Steve

Connect with the RightLife Coach!

Bill Dueease — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 17:02:02 -0400

The key to achieving your coachable goals with your life coach is that you unravel the mystery of you. You will use your life coach as your personal private mirror to dig down within you to discover your true passions, priorities, beliefs and values, talents and self-imposed obstacles. These make up your inner ingredients that impact virtually all aspects of your life. They are within you. Yet, they are difficult to see, recognize, and understand without the help of another person. Discovering these many important inner aspects about you will depend on how openly you divulge them to your life coach. If you have any reservations about talking with a particular life coach, then you will want to seriously consider selecting another life coach, with whom you have no hesitation.

What is a Coachable Goal, and Why is it Important to Life Coaching?

Bill Dueease — Mon, 26 Sep 2005 12:00:52 -0400

I first got involved with life and business coaching in 1999, and I have been amazed at how frequently people, and even coaches, misuse the life coaching process. People hire someone to coach them for a whole range of reasons. Unfortunately, many of these reasons have little to do with life coaching. Sad to say, far too many people will sell their coaching services to anyone who will pay them for almost any reason. Or worse, many others use a coach with no real purpose in mind. The only reason you will want to engage a life or business or executive coach is to accomplish your Coachable Goals. The real reason coaches go through all of their training and practice is to be able to coach you to make sure you DO accomplish your Coachable Goals. Yet, too many coaching prospective clients and people purporting to be life coaches do not understand the importance of having Coachable Goals or what they really are. Consequently, coaching commences without any real purpose. This is not good for the client, the coach, or coaching in general. To put this in perspective, this is like paying an attorney for no reason, or at least for something that has nothing to do with the law.

4 Key Conditions for Successful Coaching

Bill Dueease — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 12:14:16 -0400

The life coaching process is an excellent process that, when certain conditions are met, will assist people to achieve wonderful life, business and professional goals. People greatly improve all aspects of their lives through life coaching. We can attest to how almost a thousand people have accomplished remarkable and wonderful goals through engaging their ideal life coach through The Coach Connection.

How Does the Coaching Process Work?

Christy — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 14:06:42 -0400

If you have never worked with a coach before, you normally are curious about the process and how it can benefit you. Typically you meet with your coach by on a regular basis. You will develop an ongoing partnership with your coach that is based on trust. A coach will focus his or her full energy and attention on helping you achieve your goals. Your coach becomes a totally objective, nonjudgmental, supportive partner providing insight to you on who you really are and what you really want to do.

What is a "Coachable Goal"?

Christy — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 09:12:31 -0400

Everyday at The Coach Connection we talk to people about "coachable goals." A coachable goal is simply, a future place you want to be that requires you to grow and improve as a person to achieve it. While this may be somewhat difficult to grasp at first, after looking deeper, you will discover a wonderful world that opens up and to the important accomplishments to which these goals lead. When we say a future place YOU want to be, this means you choose to move your life to a diffferent place from where you are today. You always focus on where you want to go, not on what you are leaving behind. You make this decision on your own when you are ready. And you control the process.