What’s So Great About Coaching | This Week’s 5 Real-Life Comments

Your 5 real-life weekly comments about coaching are here:

“Even modest improvements can justify hiring a coach…”
- Fortune

“Coaching has given me an energy to put more of the things I want in my life, he says. I can now focus my downtime, which used to be wasted time.”
- The Long Island Newspaper

“In the interview game, coaches can take your play to a new level.”
- BusinessWeek Investor

“Inside every successful business person is an even more ambitious one trying to get out. He or she just needs a little help.”
- Australian Financial Review

“…a coach… a valuable sounding board in today’s crazy business climate.”
- Fortune

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What’s So Great About Coaching | This Week’s 5 Real-Life Comments

Here are your 5 real-life comments about coaching for this week:

“Coaching is the latest and most pervasive evolution in the self improvement industry.”
- Career Confidential

“[Your coach] will guide you to a fuller life or a slimmer figure. Whatever you want. Your weakness is his challenge.”
- USA Today

“[Other companies] offer coaching as a prerequisite to proven managers, in the understanding that everyone can benefit from a detached observer.”
- New York Times

“I think of a coach like a personal trainer who pushes me to lift more weights….”
- St. Paul (MN) Pioneer Press

“The objective, distanced view of a coach can also lead to new ways of looking at issues because the coach’s ideas aren’t limited by politics or a position within the company.”
- Infoworld

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What’s So Great About Coaching | This Week’s 5 Real-Life Comments

Here are this week’s 5 real-life comments about coaching:

“…a personal coach is better than a best friend.”
- Sausalito.net

“Coaches work with clients in all areas including business, career, finances, health and relationships.”
- Sausalito.net

“The coaching relationship also has a unique structure…. The coach prods the client to keep to the action plan.”
- The Business Journal

“…coaching relationships… are helping small-business owners improve their business skills, recalibrate their approaches to management, and, often, totally reboot and rebalance themselves as leaders on the job and in the home and community.”
- Nation’s Business

“…increasingly, individuals are turning to coaches for help with every sort of problem.”
- Boston Globe

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What’s So Great About Coaching | This Week’s 5 Real-Life Comments

We  hope you’ll enjoy your 5 real-life comments about coaching for this week:

“I first heard about personal coaches… at the same time personal fitness coaches were beginning to flex their muscles. The two fields are related: coaches in both areas help you achieve your potential…. Personal coaches provide powerful professional insights. My personal advice: Get one.”
- Chicago Tribune, 5/17/98

“If you’re thinking of overhauling your career to achieve a more fulfilling life, consider joining the estimated 100,000 Americans who annually enlist the help of some 4,000 personal coaches each year.”
- Money

“Most leaders like executive coaching because: they receive direct one-on-one assistance from someone they respect; they don’t have to leave their offices; it fits their timeframes and schedules; they can see fast results, if they’re dedicated.”
- Training & Development

“The ROI with executive coaching is often very high – especially if you calculate the value of a high-level executive salary and the return-on-improvement in skill level and decision making.”
- Training & Development

“How do you provide career development as a just-in-time, bottomline-driven business activity? For an increasing number of organizations, the answer seems to be executive coaching. In recent years, there has been an explosion in its use.”
- Organizational Dynamics

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What’s So Great About Coaching | This Week’s 5 Real-Life Comments

Your 5 real-life comments about coaching for this week are here:

“People are looking to coaches as sounding boards and motivators who can offer a fresh perspective on career and life problems – but without the conflicting agendas of a spouse, family member, or even a mentor.”
- Fortune

“People who want to stand out at work or face a job crisis increasingly turn to career coaches. There are now an estimated 10,000 coaches nationwide….”
- The Wall Street Journal

“In corporate America today, the sign that you have truly arrived – or at least that you are being groomed for arrival – is an executive coach. Your own personal coach, that is.”
- Training

“The number of executives hiring personal coaches is rocketing as more and more professionals turn to outside help for advice in how to manage their day, dollars, employees, develop better leadership skills and maximize effectiveness.”
- London Evening Standard

“…business coaching often leads to personal insights. Clients are better able to deal with obstacles and change. It’s easier to balance work life with their personal life. And in some cases, it gives them the courage to pursue dreams.”
- The Arizona Republic

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What’s So Great About Coaching | This Week’s 5 Real-Life Comments

Here are your 5 real-life comments about coaching for this week:

“You’ve really got to have someone from the outside who says, ‘All right John, what are we out to achieve? Why are these good goals? Why is this a good strategy?’….  And then hold you accountable.”
- Tapei Times Online

“Coaching simply speeds up a process of change that would most likely occur anyway if an individual had enough time. Without a coaching program that forces a client to focus and make time, people sometimes miss the real issues they need to focus on.”
- The Ivy Business Journal

“The hottest thing in management is the executive coach – part boss, part consultant, part therapist.”
- Betsy Morris, “So You’re a Player. Do You Need a Coach?” Fortune

Bradford [at Met Life] says her year of coaching ‘was like a grenade in my life that’s still going off.’ It taught her, she says, that ‘people have to take more responsibility for their own growth and development. They can’t depend on human resources. Coaches can help people come to grips with huge changes in the way we do work, in getting through big transitions.”
- Betsy Morris, “So You’re a Player. Do You Need a Coach?” Fortune

“Executives and HR managers know coaching is the most potent tool for inducing positive personal change, ensuring better-than-average odds of success and making the change stick for the long term.”
— The Ivy Business Journal

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What’s So Great About Coaching | This Week’s 5 Real-Life Comments

We hope you’ll enjoy this week’s 5 real-life comments about coaching:

“Leaders view themselves more as a coach than the person in charge.”
-Frank Blount, former CEO of Telstra

“Most executives seek out a coach when they know they need to make improvements, but they don’t know how to do it. It’s like baseball, if we were swinging the bat perfectly we wouldn’t have coaches.”
- Barbara Brannen, former Vice President of Human Resources for Qwest Communications

“Coaches aren’t just for sports: They goad you, guide you on the road to success.”
- Cynthia Flash, Seattle Times

“Coaches provide inspiration, and consultants provide information.”
- Jeremy Robinson, President of Robinson Capital

“In the past, executive coaching was viewed as a perk; now companies realize it can help their bottom line.”
- Steven Hilferty, CEO of Silicon Valley Coaching

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What’s So Great About Coaching | This Week’s 5 Real-Life Comments

Here are this week’s 5 real-life comments about coaching:

“I never cease to be amazed at the power of the coaching process to draw out the skills or talent that was previously hidden within an individual, and which invariably finds a way to solve a problem previously thought unsolvable.”
- John Russell, Managing Director, Harley-Davidson Europe Ltd.

“Asked for a conservative estimate of the monetary payoff from the coaching they got, these managers described an average return of more than $100,000, or about six times what the coaching had cost their companies.”
- “Executive Coaching – With Returns a CFO Could Love,” Fortune

“I absolutely believe that people, unless coached, never reach their maximum capabilities.”
- Bob Nardelli, CEO, Home Depot

“Tiger Woods has one. Pete Sampras has one. So why not small business owners?”
- Charles Boisseau, “Put Me In, Coach,” localbusiness.com

“Coaching – which can help managers talk with subordinates about their developmental needs – absolutely affects the relationship positively.”
- Francine Russo, “Play of the Day,” Time

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What’s So Great About Coaching | This Week’s 5 Real-Life Comments

This week we bring you these 5 real-life comments about coaching:

“We’ve done lots of research over the past three years, and we’ve found that leaders who have the best coaching skills have better business results.”
- Tanya Clemens,
V.P. of Global Executive & Organizational Development at IBM, Time

“Coaching is the only cost-effective way to reinforce new behaviors and skills until a learner is through the dangerous results dip. Once through the dip, when the new skills bring results, they will become self-reinforcing.”
- Training and Development Journal

“Corporations believe that coaching helps keep employees and that the dollar investment in it is far less than the cost of replacing an employee.”
- David A. Thomas,
Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration,
Harvard Business School, Time

“Bob Wright, an executive coach, says his clients are needing him even more during the downturn, tough times are a great opportunity for those businesses who can make the hard, right decisions during difficult transition and adjustment periods and that’s what coaching is all about, learning how to change and grow.”
- Management Today

“If ever stressed-out corporate America could use a little couchtime, it’s now. Trust in big companies is at an all-time low. Babyboomers have been burned; Gen Xers aren’t expecting the corporation to take care of them. Under the circumstances, employees are much likelier to go outside and get independent advice to help them be better managers”
- Karen Cates, Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior,
Northwestern University, Kellogg Graduate School of Management

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What’s So Great About Coaching | This Week’s 5 Real-Life Comments

If you’re pondering the bigger questions about coaching this week, here are what some have said:

“…[A coach is] part advisor, part sounding board, part cheerleader, part manager and part strategist.”
- The Business Journal

“Coaches are everywhere these days. Companies hire them to shore up executives or, in some cases, to ship them out. Division heads hire them as change agents. Workers at all levels of the corporate ladder, fed up with a lack of advice from inside the company, are taking matters into their own hands and enlisting coaches for guidance on how to improve their performance, boost their profits, and make better decisions about everything from personnel to strategy.”
- Betsy Morris, “So You’re a Player. Do You Need a Coach?”
Fortune

“The demand for Executive Coaches has skyrocketed over the past 5 years…today’s executive coach (EC) is intended to help leaders and potential leaders across the rocky, wild, and challenging road of organizational growth in today’s dynamic and unstable work environment…”
- The Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology,
American Psychological Association

“What’s really driving the boom in coaching, is this: as we move from 30 miles an hour to 70 to 120 to 180…as we go from driving straight down the road to making right turns and left turns to abandoning cars and getting on motorcycles…the whole game changes, and a lot of people are trying to keep up, learn how to not fall off.”
- John Kotter, Professor of Leadership,
Harvard Business School

“Across corporate America, coaching sessions at many companies have become as routine for executives as budget forecasts and quota meetings.”
- Gary Stern, “A Coached CEO Can Be that Winning Edge,”
Investor’s Business Daily

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What’s So Great About Coaching | This Week’s 5 Real-Life Comments

Here’s what the following people are saying about coaching:

“Executive coaches are not for the meek. They’re for people who value unambiguous feedback. All coaches have one thing in common, it’s that they’re ruthlessly results-oriented.”
- Claire Tristan, Fast Company

Dawn AnJolais of Portland: “I coach people who want a better way than they’ve been doing it.”
- Roger Crockett, The Oregonian

Dawn AnJolais of Portland:  “I’m trained to point attention to where it needs to be so you can direct the effort.”
- Roger Crockett, The Oregonian

“After all, don’t we all benefit from encouragement, objectivity and structure in our lives?”
- Sausalito.net

“Even if executive coaching costs $50K (which it doesn’t), it’s barely a rounding error to invest in the coaching of a key player who has responsibility for millions of dollars and for key human resources. Coaching is a success if one direct report, who used to be intimidated to speak up, comes up with an innovative idea.”
- CEO, Fortune 100 Company

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What’s So Great About Coaching | This Week’s 5 Real-Life Comments

Here’s what the following people are saying about coaching:

“Want to get even further ahead?…What you need is a coach, your
own personal motivator. They’re not just for top-ranked tennis
players anymore.”
- Lydia Martin, Miami Herald

“At a time when companies are downsizing and out placing…at a
time when boomers are facing 50, coaches are easing traumatic
transitions.”
- “Career Coaches Offer Help in the Game of Life,”
Long Beach Press-Telegram

“The benefits of coaching appear to win over even the most cynical
clients within just a few weeks.”
- Shari Caudron, “Hire A Coach?” Industry Week

“A coach may be the guardian angel you need to rev up your career.”
- Money

“The goal of coaching is the goal of good management – to make the
most of an organization’s valuable resources.”
- J. Waldroop & T. Butler, “The Executive as Coach,”
Harvard Business Review

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What’s So Great About Coaching | This Week’s 5 Real-Life Comments

Here’s what the following people are saying about coaching:

“Coaching is not about the past or figuring out why and how life
got so complicated or overwhelming. It is about moving forward
on the things that matter most to you, dissolving barriers and
blocks to your own success, and designing a life that you love.”
- Sausalito.net

“A major benefit of coaching is having someone who helps you see
your strengths and weaknesses and use them to accomplish your goals.”
- Kim Palmer, Minneapolis-St. Paul Star-Tribune

“Using [coaching] instead of sending executives and managers to
seminars two or three times a year can be more beneficial to
ongoing career development, not to mention less expensive…”
- “Coaches Pump Your Career into Shape,” PC Week

“If you want to build your business and at the same time have a
rewarding personal life, you call a coach.”
- Robert Schwab, “Businesses Hire Coaches to Build Winning
Teams,” Denver Post

“[Your coach] will guide you to a fuller life or a slimmer figure.
Whatever you want. Your weakness is his challenge.”
- Craig Wilson, USA Today

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What’s So Great About Coaching | This Week’s 5 Real-Life Comments

Here’s what the following people are saying about coaching:

“Inside every successful business person is an even more ambitious one trying to get out. He or she just needs a little help.” - Australian Financial Review

“Coaching is an action-oriented partnership that, unlike psychotherapy which delves into patterns of the past, concentrates on where you are today and how you can reach your goals.” - Time

“What exactly is a coach? Part personal consultant, part sounding board, part manager. Yes, manager. Remember him? That person whose job used to be to advise, motivate, and train – but whose nose is now mostly stuck in e-mail? For a surprising number of people, it is now the coach – not the boss – who pushes them to hire, to fire, to fine-tune a sales pitch, to stretch.” - Fortune

“As a result of coaching, clients set better goals, take more action, make better decisions, and more fully use their natural strengths.” - Sausalito.net

“Coaches can help entrepreneurs get their personal lives in order, which can go a long way toward solving what may have looked like purely business problems.” - Dale D. Bliss, Nation’s Business

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What’s So Great About Coaching | This Week’s 5 Real-Life Comments

Here’s what the following people are saying about coaching:

“Who, exactly, seeks out a coach? Winners who want even more out of life.” - Chicago Tribune

“Part therapist, part consultant, part motivational expert, part professional organizer, part friend, part nag – the personal coach seeks to do for your life what a personal trainer does for your body.” - Kim Palmer, Minneapolis-St. Paul Star-Tribune

“Got a nagging feeling that your life could be more fulfilling? Want to change direction but aren’t sure how to do it? Here’s how to jump start your new life today…Hire a personal coach.” - Modern Maturity

“Increasingly nonprofit executives and managers are finding coaches a terrific sounding board and source of help in a demanding and complex job.” - Nonprofit World

“Coaching can certainly help you strengthen your sense of self worth, focus on your goals – and get there, fast.” - The London Daily Telegraph

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