Who Advises You?

No man is an island rings very true up until to this very day. Many believe that walking through life’s difficulties alone is fine or okay when in fact it isn’t and it shouldn’t be.?

?Why are so many business coaches operating under the misguided assumption that because we lead, we don’t need to be led?

Your coach should see what you are really capable of and should then push you to your limit.?

Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be still wiser; teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning. This proverb applies to all of mankind of any type of vocation or profession.

In the case of sports, why would a world-class tennis player need a coach? Especially one who is not as good on the court as the player is?

Andre Agassi answered the question this way, “Tennis requires subtle adjustments crucial to winning and my coach, Gill, is the best at making them. The older I get the more valuable he becomes.”

Self evaluation is important but the evaluation by others is crucial. A good coach measures the strengths in their clients but rarely strengths and potential in themselves.

I asked myself, many years ago when I had several companies and years of experience behind me, and even more so when I became a coach, “Why do I still value my coach?”

The answer is simply that age and experience don’t necessarily make you better; Sure they do in some areas of your life, but often than not, they just deepen the rut you are in.

We measure our success against others instead of the God-given potential we have in ourselves and in the end we never become what we could have been.

I quickly learned that in life and business, as in sports, you never reach the point where you don’t need great input. That is why I became a business coach and it is why I still have at least two coaches myself.

I am on a mission to be the best so I need the best around me. My mission is to change the world’s perception of business coaching for the better and I want to help as many coaches as possible be outstanding and deliver exceptional value to their clients.

Everyone needs a trusted advisor. Ruth needed Naomi and Timothy needed Paul.

?This is also similar to the principle of discipleship. To be a good discipler, you need to be discipled. To be a good teacher, you need to be taught.?

You may be good at coaching, training or mentoring. Indeed you may be much better than most, but without the help of others you will never be as good as you could be.

You will never reach your highest potential without a good ‘adviser’ yourself. It is impossible and history has proven this time and time again.

You do this with your clients, do you have someone doing this to you?

Since the dawn of time rulers and leaders have sought the council of great advisers. I have always had a coach in my businesses and decided very early on in my business coaching that I still needed great advise, and most importantly someone to hold me accountable.

I attribute all of my success to the coaching and mentoring I paid for and received. I know this in my businesses and also as a coach, but I still get so frustrated that many coaches feel they have to go it alone, as if they have something to prove?

The sports sector understands coaching this so well but why do the business sector and in particular the coaching industry lag so far behind and struggle on their own?

Take-aways or actions for reader:

• Take a moment and look at who advises you?
• Consider not who is ‘better than you in business coaching’ but look for an advisor or coach that is renowned for helping other coaches to be the best in their sector, or in fact the world.
• If you don’t yet have the coach beside you, helping you make those crucial adjustments, don’t just turn to a video or book, turn to someone who can actually observe you in action and then get you to make those essential tweaks.
• When you look for or to your coach, make sure that they too have a coach and someone they take advise from, you need them to be the best that they can be too as what they do

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