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(And why it is
vital that you understand the differences)
Are you confused about how life
coaching relates to consulting?
Many people mistakenly assume that the life coaching process and
the consulting process are, at least similar, if not the same.
Yet, the two processes are so VERY DIFFERENT.
It is vital that you understand the differences so that you will be able
to maximize the results you attain from either process. The processes
are so different, that a person will get poor results, if any, from either
process, if mistakenly treated as the other.
Unfortunately, too many people treat life coaching like consulting (and
visa versa). Trying to get consulting results from the coaching process
or visa versa, will undoubtedly produce very dissatisfying outcomes. Both
the consulting and life coaching process offer exceptional results
and rewards, when used under the right conditions for the right
purpose.
The key is to understand which process is best suited for which purpose
and what the right conditions are to achieve the best results.
(In fact, the two processes are entirely the opposite!)
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(An attorney)
Consultants work on problems for their clients.
Attorneys work on legal problems for their clients.
Consultants are recognized experts in their chosen
field.
Attorneys are recognized as experts in the field of law.
Consultants are expected to provide credentials to prove their knowledge
and expertise.
Attorneys are expected to show they graduated from law school and have
passed the Bar Exam for the States in which they are licensed to practice.
Consultants have a superior position to the client, at least in their
area of expertise.
Attorneys take the power and superior position with their clients, at
least, in the area of law.
Consultants sell their expert advice.
Attorneys will sell their legal advice. Attorneys advise clients.
Consultants also perform tasks on behalf of their clients.
Attorneys perform most, if not all legal tasks for their clients. They
file lawsuits, create and file legal briefs, represent their clients to
their opponents and the court, and the list goes on.
Consultants work on problems or tasks that do not involve the personal
growth of their clients.
Legal problems rarely involve the personal growth or improvement of clients,
and if they do, most attorneys only focus on the legal aspects.
Consulting clients have little, if any, control over the consulting
process.
Clients are limited in what they can and want to tell their attorneys.
Clients can exercise some control over the legal consulting process, but
not much. Clients can have some say so over whether to file and/or withdraw
a lawsuit, give settlement conditions, direct attorneys to send intimidating
letters, or direct attorneys to file for custody.
Consulting clients havelittle, if any, control over
the RESULTS of consulting.
Clients must accept the results or outcome they get from legal actions.
Consulting clients and consultants are not expected
to develop personal bonds, and rarely do.
Most attorneys and clients keep their personal lives and legal issues
very separate. Attorneys normally try to avoid dealing with the personal
lives of their clients unless they have to, and then they refer them to
others for help.
Consultants share the limelight and credit (and
frequently control both) when successful outcomes occur (and even
when unsuccessful ones happen).
Attorneys almost always take the limelight and credit during and after
the legal process. They like being the star. Does Johnny Cochran come
to mind?
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Life Coaches assist their clients to achieve their
coachable goals.
Clients set their goals and the reason they hire a coach is
to accomplish their goals.
Life Coaches are not experts nor do they profess
to be.
Coaches assist their clients to become the worlds leading experts on themselves.
Life Coaches have few, if any, credentials to prove that they are experts.
Instead, coaches can provide experience and the successes of former clients.
Actually experiencing personal coaching with a coach offers the best evaluation
method for a client.
Life Coaches are Equal Partners with their clients.
Coaches are like a copilot sitting in the passenger seat of an automobile
traveling to the same destination (the accomplishment of their clients
goals). Coaches do not exhibit a superior position.
Life Coaches do NOT provide expert advice.
Coaches encourage their clients to find the answers that have virtually
been there all along.
Life Coaches perform NO tasks on behalf of their clients.
Coaching clients perform all of the action steps to achieve their goals.
(Coaching clients always drive the car)
Life coaching clients will improve and grow as a person as they achieve
their coaching goals.
The goals that are best suited for the coaching process require clients
to grow and improve as a person to accomplish them. Life coaching clients
reduce their stress, increase their energy, make better decisions, increase
their life balance, increase their peace of mind, and focus more on what
is really important to them, BECAUSE of participating in the coaching
process.
Life coaching clients have virtually TOTAL control over the coaching
process.
Both the clients and their coaches must discover the path to success together.
Clients will control and follow the path of discovery that reveals their
inner passions, desires, values and priorities. The coaching process will
not be constrained by a written agenda or organized steps. Instead, the
coaching process provides a free forum to discover where the client is
and then develop the best path for individual clients to achieve their
specific goals.
Life coaching clients have virtually TOTAL control
over the RESULTS they reap from coaching.
Life coaching clients set the goals they want to achieve through coaching.
The purpose of hiring a coach is to achieve their goals. Their coaches
concentrate on the goals being achieved. The achievement of the predetermined
goals produces the RESULTS desired, and much more.
Life coaching clients develop a strong personal bond
and trusting relationship with their life coach.
The very personal nature of the life coaching process requires clients
and their coaches to develop a very strong mutually trusting, mutually
respectful and mutually focused partnership.
Life Coaches avoid the limelight and credit.
Life coaching clients receive all of the fame and adulation that goes
with participating in the coaching process. Coaches avoid the limelight
or taking any credit. Plus, the coaching process is very confidential
and private, and unless the client says something, no one will even know
a person has a life coach.
Conclusion!
The more you understand how both processes work, the
more you will be able to select the process that best suits your objectives.
The more you allow each process to operate as it was designed, the greater
the rewards you will receive from using the process. The more you interfere
with each process, the more you will reduce the benefits you receive.
As you can see, you will want to be sure that the consultant you hire
performs solely as a consultant to accomplish your consultant goals that
the consulting process was designed to do achieve.
You will also want to be sure that the life coach you engage performs
solely as a life coach to assist you to accomplish your chosen coachable
goals that the life coaching process was designed to achieve. Should your
life coach begin to act like a consultant (Hint-you feel your coach is
superior to you, your coach gives you advice, tells you what you should
do or should not do, offers to do the work for you, judges you, criticizes
you, and/or competes with you for the center of attention) you will want
to terminate the relationship as a life coach partnership. You will also
discover that the new consultant relationship that occurs will virtually
assure that you will not achieve your coachable goals. Consultants consult.
Life coaches coach. You DO NOT want to let a person act as both a life
coach and consultant within the same relationship with you. This will
lead to undesirable results for both processes.
How Does The Coach Connection (TCC) Fit into the Picture?
The Coach Connection (TCC) provides quality life coaches
to assist you to achieve your coaching goals. In fact,
TCC will assist you to determine whether the coaching process is best
for you. If the coaching process is best for you, TCC will assure you
that all four
of the key conditions to successful life coaching are met for you
to receive the maximum rewards from the coaching process.
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