Do You Really Need a Counselor, Coach and Consultant?
Dr. Lazaro Astro, PhD, GCDF, CMCS, CMF, CCSP
Founder of Commercewise | Career Coach, Marketing Consultant, Public Speaker, Master of Ceremonies, Event Director, Social Media Creator
Do we really need a Consultant, a Coach and a Counselor? Yes, at least in our lifetime, all 3 of them. As a minimum, we need a mentor.
You wouldn't ask a plumber to repair your computer, so why contract an inappropriate expert to help your business issues or career matters?
You desire for something better in your personal brand, your skills, your health & your business. You realize you need to have an effect and make your plans work; however, you can't venture out that future. Possibly you fell into your present place of employment and can't escape the monotonous routine or have been in business and have not monetised your skills. Or on the other hand, perhaps you comprehend what kind of job in which you need to be and are prepared to construct your profession with reason and need a sounding board to help you.
You may realise that you're prepared for expert vocation support, however from whom? I've worked with mentors, experts, counselors and specialists, and—as business owner for 15 years, a counselor for 20 years and a coach for 10 years myself—I discover it incredibly accommodating to recognise how to administer these three services that you may need in your career or business or life in general.
Consultant
I was a counselor in the Navy, I have incorporated my true passion for branding & marketing in counseling my clients with a healthy business perspective based on their lifestyle (but of course I still have to follow the rules and guidelines). I explain when I'm being a consultant or being a coach or as a counselor since being a counselor and consultant are paid for industry experience, master in directing and execution while being a coach don't have to be the master of an industry or skills of the client. A consultant or advisor is an expert who gives skilled guidance or professional information. They have demonstrated techniques and procedures to enable you to grasp your personal brand and professional or business objectives.
A consultant is an expert who is approached for professional or specific guidance or assessments in that particular field (in my case with my 15 years experience in Marketing and Business). An adviser or consultant are contingent on to understand the issue and offering measures or resolutions.
As an adviser or consultant; I work with fellow counselors to encourage them by posing the correct inquiries and taking a shot at the individual difficulties of being a Navy counselor. As a consultant, I offer counselors or business owners or entrepreneurs some ideas, checklist, workshops or task, and a counsel sits someplace in the middle of—wearing the instructing (teaching or mentoring) cap, as I alternate from a technical expert into providing answers in their business challenges at the same time.
My recommendation: You have an ambition, plans or purpose in life or business; however you need the procedure and structure to enable you to accomplish your goals and objectives either in business, career or experience as a whole. In this case, you need guidance or recommendations from an expert in that specific area of your plans or goal. For instance, if it’s about related financial issues you may need a financial consultant or for specific business issues, a marketing consultant or business coach may be required.
Coach
“Coaching is partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximise their personal and professional potential.” According to the International Coach Federation. The coach is the master at instructing, not really the leader of the client’s desired skill or industry.
As a former Navy chief who’s the main job in the military was to coach both junior enlisted & officers in the Navy, I respect the ingenious and inventive ways how coaching in the Navy as the specialists of the lives of junior enlisted personnel. I'm prepared to tune in and reflect at a profound level, continually soliciting more from them than they ask of themselves about their goals. Coaching will involve in the investigation of who we are as a human being, versus what we are doing. A good coach will be a mentor that will instruct you, give you support, challenge and advocate for you to arrive at your most unique future vision.
A coach isn't a team promoter, but he or she join forces with you to win in life, not to root for you from the sidelines. They are paid to influence clients to make credible choices, move and propel groups, uncover genuine wants and build a structure for the client. As a coach or mentor, I can be very involved in my client’s profession, business or any everyday life issue.
My advice: If you are searching for a transformative way to deal with your life and profession through profound outlook movements and necessary leadership - a coach will be more appropriate. You also have an option to get someone like a mentor (who is usually not paid for the service and very informal) who will have involvement and potential guidance for you. They can enable you to evade slip-ups and entanglements they may have encountered in their vocation venture, they are usually seasoned veterans or pioneers in your field to develop your confidence by learning from someone who has "been there, done that" and is available to sharing guidance.
Counselor
Training and advising from a consultant are not the sources of treatment in nature, like in individual counseling. When my counselee or clients start to talk about their emotional, life problems or well-being issues such as past hurt or injury in their earlier life (experience or aptitude in career counseling) is blocking them from pushing ahead in their vocation or life, I advice the client to either chaplain or psychologist or coach who are expert in that area.
"Social wellbeing guiding or treatment is centred around understanding the effect of psychological wellness on a person's life and helping them recuperate," as indicated by advisor Suzanne Muirheid. "Advocates work with customers to expand mindfulness and knowledge, frequently giving a reflection and making associations in one's self history and currently working. They, at that point, help clients create and execute plans to arrive at their objectives of general wellbeing."
She says there is no restriction to what directing can address, including issues that are a long haul and profound seeded to moderately new, yet hazardous to day by day life or connections.
My instruction: Individuals, for the most part, look for solutions because they are feeling blocked, encountering problems or behavioural thoughts that are generally not working in their lives so a counselor may be more appropriate for this case.
By the day's end, this is your business and your life. Discover somebody who is straightforward and willing to provoke you to make the future you want. Go past what you believe is conceivable and past your industry's outline.
On the off chance that you are feeling uncertain of what to do and are deficient with regards to certainty, realise that confidence isn't something that any of these expert administrations can give you. Certainty originates from taking the jump toward your objectives, slowly and carefully. Every last one of these experts can bolster you; however, your prosperity is genuinely in your grasp. Make it with reason and expectation and request help en route.
I would like to differentiate these 3 forms of assistance is through an actual scenario of learning how to use the latest technology or a smartphone:
A counselor will assist you with getting over your past agonies with technologies and one day, you will have to download individual apps especially those assessment apps such as Lumosity and use Facebook & YouTube like using a telephone or television once more.
A consultant will place you to use that smartphone with several apps and all social media and give you a 100-page report on the most streamlined and practical approach what apps or technology is useful for you.
A mentor or coach will friend request you on Facebook and advice you to buy what phone and have you observe how they use it at that point bounce off and state "alright do what I simply did" and show you how to do what they do! A paid coach will have you use that phone, and appropriate apps and monitor all your feeds and postings and groups you join and make sense of what the thing that matters is between your objective and reality.
My final words. Hopefully, from this point on after you chose what is an appropriate service is good for you - they will chip away together with you a multi-part plan that will concentrate on everything expected to enable you to close the hole (in your career or business) and accomplish the outcomes you need. Counselors, coach, mentors and consultants will help measure and track your results and search for approaches to adjust your preparation.