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<\/p>\nWhether advancing your career, moving past a challenge, or choosing to create meaningful change, a coach is your single most powerful tool.\u00a0 Given that is a bold claim, consider the research that backs it up.\u00a0Forbes magazine said, \u201cDo you have a coach?\u00a0 If not, you could be limiting your career success.\u201d\u00a0 Fortune magazine cites an average 600% return on investment.\u00a0Denison Consulting calls coaching the organizational development tool of choice.\u00a0 Now, make this personal.\u00a0 Hiring a coach means engaging a professional with a process that supports you exploring your opportunities, identifying and addressing your challenges, developing your strategies, and partnering with you for accountability on the follow through.\u00a0Determining whether hiring a coach is right for you is as simple as determining if working with a professional is going to help you achieve what you want more efficiently and effectively.\u00a0<\/p>\n
What can I expect from coaching?\u00a0 To start, get clear on what a coach is and is not.\u00a0 For example, at the Center for Coaching Certification<\/a>, coach training starts with defining this exactly.\u00a0 A coach empowers you to clarify your goals, develop strategies for moving past obstacles, plan, and define your action steps.\u00a0 A coach is your accountability partner.\u00a0 Know that you are in control of what you want to talk about with your coach.\u00a0 Explore your goals and priorities with your coach and tell them what you want from each session.\u00a0 Being honest with your coach will empower you to accomplish more.\u00a0 A coach knows you are your own best expert and their role is to provide the process that puts you in charge.<\/p>\n What, exactly, does a coach do?\u00a0 A coach who has their coaching certification is a process expert that challenges and expands your thinking so that you find your answers within yourself.\u00a0 The coaching process is advanced development for advanced results.\u00a0 This means that in addition to figuring out your action steps, coaching involves creating awareness, deepening learning, and strengthening you as an individual.\u00a0 Harvard Business Journal<\/a>states that most people who have a coach have a fierce desire to learn and grow \u2013 and a coach partners with you to make that happen.<\/p>\n How long will the coaching last?\u00a0 A coaching relationship lasts as long or as short as you want.\u00a0 The coach is committed to coaching only as long as it benefits you as the client.\u00a0 You are in charge!\u00a0 On average a coaching relationship lasts six months.\u00a0 Best practices is a commitment to six sessions and then determining whether to continue based on the coaching serving you effectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Whether advancing your career, moving past a challenge, or choosing to create meaningful change, a coach is your single most powerful tool.\u00a0 Given that is … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,131,470,471,16,40],"tags":[685,406,278,48,50,177,196,686,508],"class_list":["post-7905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-coaching-program","category-coaching-resources","category-coaching-skills","category-coaching-stories","category-tools-and-techniques","tag-accomplish","tag-career","tag-center-for-coaching-certification","tag-coach","tag-coaching","tag-coaching-relationship","tag-create-awareness","tag-desire","tag-empowers","latest_post"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7906,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7905\/revisions\/7906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}