"...the quickly growing wave of coaching relationships that
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
"If you want to build your business and at the same time
have a rewarding personal life, you call a coach."
Denver Post
"Many independent business owners seek out coaches to help
them stay on track as they build their businesses."
Los Angeles Times
"48 executives (surveyed) about their experiences with personal
coaches...there was almost unanimous agreement that having a coach
helped in all aspects of life and enhanced both business and personal
relationships."
Training Magazine
"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..."
PC Week
"If you feel that your personal or professional life could
use a boost, hiring a coach may be helpful."
San Francisco Examiner
"People mix up coaching, mentoring and consulting…The
differences? …a mentor has the same business experience
as the client. A consultant tells clients how to be more effective.
And a coach works with the client to reveal and build on his or
her strengths, improve performance and enhance quality of life…."Coaches
look at the business side and, at the same time, look to see whether
[clients] are working too many hours, examine their time-management
effectiveness, their fitness and their life relationships,"
"A coach can be skilled at coaching, but not as experienced
as an executive. As a coach, a big part of the job is to be a
resource - to have an extensive database of people I can refer
to, so that I can call in a mentor when the client needs one."
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CIO Magazine
"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."
Nation's Business
"A major benefit of coaching is having someone who helps
you see your strengths and weaknesses and use them to accomplish
your goals."
Minneapolis Star-Tribune
"Coaching started in the business world to help stressed
out executives cope with their professional and personal lives,
and it still thrives in the corporate environment. But, increasingly,
individuals are turning to coaches for help with every sort of
problem."
Boston Globe
"A personal coach can help you by getting you to spell out
what it is that you really want and then working with you to make
the changes that actually enable you to get there."
The Vancouver Province
"As life gets more frenzied, people are struggling to find
balance and purpose. A coach simply helps you realize a more fulfilling
and harmonious life, faster and easier."
Dayton Daily News
"...in the next few years, coaching will become the norm
in the business world."
Washington Post
"Today's managers,. professionals and entrepreneurs are
hiring coaches to help them with time management, a change in
career or balancing their work and personal lives."
Fortune
"A personal coach can be the answer when people need a push
in more than art of their lives or guidance in setting broad lifestyle
goals."
Dallas Morning News
"Business coaches or career coaches are stepping in the
replace the role traditionally held by a mentor....Just as a personal
trainer helps build up your muscles, a business coach may strengthen
your performance on the job."
Orlando Sentinel
"[Your coach] will guide you to a fuller life or a slimmer
figure. Whatever you want. Your weakness is his challenge."
USA Today
"...apparently coaching is coming into its own as a profession."
Newsday
"They call themselves 'coaches' and they're a new breed
of career counselors multiplying nationwide, promising to help
unblock barriers to success, and make you a happier, better person,
to boot."
Denver Post
"A coach can help a client bring the goal into focus."
Las Vegas Review Journal
"...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 any more."
Miami Herald
"..I'd bet the return on a [coaching] client's investment
could be substantial."
Detroit Free Press
"Recent studies show business coaching and executive coaching
to be the most effective means for achieving sustainable growth,
change and development in the individual, group and organization
."
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