Discover what Life Coaching is all about

Discover what life coaching is all about!

And More!

Athletes have been using sports coaches and personal trainers for years to greatly improve their performance. Michael Jordan had a "shooting" coach (among the other 5 coaches he used) to win 6 championship rings and untold MVP awards. Tiger Woods used a "swing" coach before he won the four consecutive major golf tournaments. Yes, they were good, but they became great winners because of individual coaching.

The life coaching process is not limited to athletics or personal training. The life coaching process will assist you to achieve a vast array of goals in the personal, business, work, and family areas of your life.

What is life coaching?

The life coaching process is the only human improvement process that focuses completely on YOU! Life coaches are equal partners who assist you to improve and grow as a person as the means to achieve your goals. Life coaches assist you to become the World's Leading Expert on YOU! Coaches also assist you to execute the actions necessary to achieve your goals. You will have virtual control over the results you achieve through coaching, because you set the coaching goals, and the coaching process assures that you will achieve them.

Why hire a life coach?

You hire a coach to achieve your personal, spiritual, family and business Coachable Goals, much more effectively, more efficiently, more completely, with more fun, and in less time than any other human improvement process. Life coaches assist you to: overcome obstacles and fears, focus on solutions, have someone to bounce ideas off, no matter how silly they may seem, discover truths about you, and how you can improve, accomplish more than you thought possible, and achieve balance in your personal, work and family lives. Your coach will UNLEASH YOU, to become the person you always wanted to be and were capable of becoming.

How does life coaching work for you?

Typically you interact with your coach over the phone. You and your coach will develop an ongoing partnership, based upon trust. Your coach will focus his or her full energy and attention on you achieving your goals. Your coach will become the totally objective, nonjudgmental, supportive mirror into whom you really are and what you really want to do. Your coach will provide life options, new perspectives, encouragement, and concentrated attention to give you the insight, and confidence to take life-improving actions towards your goals. Your coach will assist you to identify your self-imposed obstacles and further assist you to overcome them to reach your goals.

The life coaching process works exceptionally well at assisting you to improve your life, business, relationships and your work. But like anything else, life coaching works best under the right conditions. You will want to make sure the following Four Key Conditions are met before you engage a life coach, whether you use The Coach Connection or not. These conditions are universal. Just like you will want to go snow skiing in Colorado in February, versus in Miami in June.

The Four Key Conditions to reap the most rewards from Life Coaching are:

1. You have at least one Coachable Goal that is best achieved through life coaching
2. You are ready to get the most from life coaching
3. You are matched with a life coach who is ideal for you.
4. Your life coach has considerable experience and a strong desire to coach YOU to your best.

What can you expect to pay for coaching in general?

Life coaches, and business coaches charge all over the map for their services. It has been reported that the average life coach (including over 60% who are rookie coaches) charges $187 per hour. You can reduce your costs by purchasing a bundle of sessions with your coach. Even with bundled session discounts, the prices for one on one individual telephone life coaching will run between $300 US to $1,000 US for three (3) to five (5) coaching sessions per period. Specialized executive and corporate coaching will approach $2,000 US per period for up to 8 coaching sessions and 24/7 hour on call availability.

Initial Money-Back Guarantee Coaching Period-a flat $349 for a minimum of Six (6) (One each with a minimum of three personally matched coaches and three more with the coach of your choice) sessions. You may ask for and you will receive your full money back anytime during your Initial Money-Back Guarantee Period.

Second and subsequent coaching periods prices range from $300 to $475 for three (3) to four (4) sessions.
Includes short between session calls and unlimited e-mail support at no extra cost. You decide to continue into each cycle, on a cycle-by-cycle basis, until you feel you have succeeded in achieving your coachable goals. There are no contracts to confine you.

TCC represents you. TCC provides you special Price Protection because TCC Regulates the prices of our Member Coaches by insisting that the prices charged to you, OUR CLIENT, are not one penny more than what they charge others (no mark ups allowed, or termination occurs). Price checks have revealed that approximately 35% of TCC Member Coaches charge TCC clients less than they charge others, because they know they will be matched with their ideal clients.

Even with these price reductions, over 96.5% of TCC's clients achieved, at least, their initial Coachable Goals (and frequently achieved additional goals), versus approximately 40% elsewhere. You can too!

The prices charged by coaches will not be an indicator of the quality of coaching they will provide you. You will not necessarily receive higher quality coaching from coaches who charge more or lesser quality coaching from coaches who charge less. Selecting a coach based upon their ideal match up with you is far more effective than using price to pick a coach.

How long should you expect the coaching process to last?

Normally, you can expect to achieve your coaching goals within 4 to 6 months, when you connect with your true ideal coach. (One cycle normally takes about one month to complete) We have found that it takes almost twice that time if you are not matched with your ideal coach. However, the more accurate length of time will depend a lot on you. How fast you take to coaching, how quickly you take the actions you and your coach discover to be necessary to achieve your goals, and the nature of your goals will impact how long coaching will take to achieve your goals.

How will you know when it is time to stop coaching?

You will want to stop coaching when you have achieved your coaching goals. However, many people continue the coaching process to achieve new coaching goals, or to continue a reminder or maintenance program.

Can you Afford Life Coaching?

You only want to engage the services of a Life coach, if IT WILL NOT CREATE A FINANCIAL STRAIN on you. Being able to invest in yourself without the burden of serious financial constraints is critical to allowing you to focus on the most important thing in your life: YOU! You will want to budget for, at least, six coaching cycles to allow you to reap the full benefits from coaching with your ideal TCC Member Coach. Luckily, this is much less than having to budget for ten to fifteen cycles elsewhere.

Why is life coaching worth so much more than you pay?

The value of the goals you achieve will greatly exceed what you pay for coaching. You set your coaching goals and you will surely set goals that are the most valuable and important to you. In fact, coaching clients have found that the value of the goals they achieve through coaching are inevitably priceless.

There are also other, more hidden benefits of coaching that are frequently worth more than the value of the goals achieved. The benefits from improving as a person to achieve your coaching goals are frequently priceless. Getting your ideal income position (a very common coaching goal), will frequently entail reducing or eliminating your life stresses, improving your attitude about life, improving your relationships with others, etc.

Your Expected Return On Investment (ROI) from Life Coaching

Studies have shown that the Return On Investment (ROI) that you can expect from being coached exceeds 500%. Which means you will receive five (5) times more out of being coached than you paid to be coached.

This 500% ROI probably sounds much too good to be true. It is supported by the in-depth study shown here, and you can read it for yourself. Even if you only receive half the ROI, as reported, you will achieve a great Return. Paying for a Life Coach is an Investment in You! Your Growth! Your Improvement! Your Life Balance! Your Happiness! Your Health! Your Advancement! Your Career Improvement! Your Sales Improvement! You determine your own coachable goals and set the values of achieving them. We want and expect you to set very valuable and worthwhile goals (to you).

Why is it vital that you have at least one Coachable Goal?

The reason you hire a coach in the first place is to achieve your Coachable Goals. You must have at least one goal (coachable goal) that is best achieved through coaching, to benefit from coaching.

Get Started Now!

1. Call TCC for your confidential consultation
2. Be coached by three prescreened Life Coaches
3. Choose your ideal Life Coach
4. Turn your activity into a more balanced and enjoyable life

Why is it vital that your coach be ideal for you?

You will achieve your goals quicker, with more fun, with less cost, more smoothly, and more effectively with a coach who is ideal for you. The coaching process is based on trust. You will want to select that special coach whom you trust and enjoy enough to develop a very close and trusting relationship.

How do you know if you are ready to be coached?

You have total control over your degree of readiness to reap the full rewards from coaching. You will determine the degree of your readiness when you positively answer the following questions:

1. How committed are you to achieving your goal(s)?
2. How willing are you to accept new perspectives?
3. How willing are you to invest something of value (usually money) in yourself?
4. How willing are you to take the actions you and your coach uncover to achieve your goal(s)?

What is the "Gift of Coaching?"

Coaches have the "Gift of Coaching" when they naturally care more about others than themselves. Coaches with the "gift" place the success of their clients first and completely, because their ego, their intuition, their passions, and their personal values revolve around assisting others. Coaches with the "gift" are "you" focused and are rarely "I" centered.

Why is it important you hire a coach with the "Gift of Coaching?"

The coaching process is focused 100% on you to achieve your goals. You want your coaching partner to concentrate solely on you and your objectives. Coaches with the "gift" do so naturally, with passion and completely. They are rarely diverted from doing what is in your total best interest.

How does telephone coaching compare to face-to-face coaching?

Telephone coaching has proven over the years to be the most effective, the most efficient, the most convenient, the most fun, the most private, the most confidential, and the least costly method of coaching available. In fact, over 91% of all successful coaching is conducted over the telephone. Click here to discover why these statements are true.

There is one more very compelling reason to use telephone coaching. By using telephone coaching, TCC will Guarantee you that you will connect with your ideal life coach, since you will not be limited to the geographical area near you.

You will want your telephone coaching sessions to last at least 30 minutes, but not longer that 60 minutes. We have found that most people are more energetic and more attentive during phone coaching sessions that last from 30 minutes to 60 minutes in length. We have also found that face-to-face coaching will generally take much longer.

What are the different types of "life coaching?"

The "life coaching" profession encompasses a whole array of different types of specialized coaching. The specific titles signify the different fields of life in which coaches concentrate. However, the coaching done under each label can and does frequently crossover from one field to another. Some of the more recognizable specialties of "life coaching" are shown below with a brief description of each.

• Personal coach
All coaches who assist people to achieve any coaching goals fall under the personal coach title. But, because of publicity and other factors the term Life Coach has been adopted as the general term for the entire personal coaching profession, just like Medical Doctor is the general term for all Doctors who practice medicine.

• Life coach
Life coaches focus on assisting anyone who wants to achieve life-improving goals only. For example achieving balance between your work, personal and family lives, or turning your creativity into a positive lifestyle, or discovering and following the path to make a real difference with your life. Life coach has become the most widely recognized specialty title of the personal coaching profession.

• Career coach
Career coaches specialize in assisting clients to discover and finally attain the career or income position that is ideally suited to them. Career coaches work on the premise that each person has within them at least one true avocation that, once uncovered and achieved, will allow people to "Go to Play" every day because they are doing what they love and are so good at. Career coaches start with discovering what motivates and drives their clients, develop ideal positions that fit their clients and then assist their clients to actually get the income position that they really want. It is estimated that approximately 52% of all coaching clients have attained their ideal income position by engaging the services of their own “Career Coach.”

• Business coach
Works primarily with entrepreneurs, business owners, and professionals (like Medical Doctors, attorneys, and consultants). Business coaches focus on improving the business and personal capacity and growth of their clients so that their actions will generate greater profits for the business, while reducing the clients’ stress and energy requirements to do so. The old saying that as the head goes, so goes the body could not be truer for business owners. Business coaches assist the business head (owner, entrepreneur, or professional) to understand the business game, and themselves much better and get out of their own way to make more informed and more effective choices. Business Coaches become the silent (and secret) partner in supporting and enlightening business owners, entrepreneurs, and professionals to achieve business and personal successes.

• Executive coach
Works with corporate executives, upper management, CEO's and board members. Executive coaches provide the very confidential competitive edge to assist executives to operate in the fast paced upper level corporate world. The executive position is a lonely and ever-changing one. Alliances and relationships can change overnight. Executive coaches provide the extremely stable and very supportive focused partnership to keep executives headed in the right direction, no matter what the circumstances may be. Executive coaches assist their clients to overcome their own self imposed obstacles to advance to higher levels and to tap into their hidden strengths and talents to keep them there.

• Sales coach
Sales professionals and sales managers operate in special world with unique goals and hurdles. Sales coaches assist sales people to identify the steps that will contribute the most to their sales and other goals, and provide accountability to stay on course to completion. Sales coaches also assist sales clients to be able to step away from selling to enjoy other aspects of life without guilt.

How is life coaching different from consulting?

You may read a detailed comparison between the life coaching process and the consulting process by clicking here. (And why it is vital to understand the differences)

Otherwise, read on for a more condensed comparison.

Consultants are recognized experts in their fields, who either sell their expert advice or perform their expert actions (or both) to complete a task on behalf of their clients. Consultants are hired to solve problems. With consulting, you have considerable control over the process and virtually no control over the results. Consultants normally seek and take credit or acclaim for work done or achievements. Consultants must maintain their superior (expert) position and rarely form a close relationship with their clients. Consultants rarely affect the personal improvement of their clients.

Life coaches focus on you (the client) to achieve your chosen coaching goals. Life coaches are equal partners who assist you to improve and grow as a person as the means to achieve your goals. Life coaches assist you to become the world's leading expert on you and take the actions necessary to achieve your goals. You will have total control over the results you achieve through coaching, but little, if any control over the process. All of the credit and acclaim for results achieved is directed to you, and not the coaches. You will form a strong confidential bond with your coach.

How is life coaching different from therapy?

The therapy process focuses on helping clients overcome past problems that impede their ability to function in a normal day to day manner. Therapists direct their clients to revisit past events to discover and resolve conflicting issues that have burdened them. Therapists are experts in their field. Therapists are not equal partners. Therapists and their clients frequently form a very strong confidential bond.

The life coaching process focuses on you (the client) achieving your chosen future coaching goals. Life coaches are equal partners who assist you to improve and grow as a person as the means to achieve your goals. Life coaches assist you to become the world's leading expert on your and take the actions necessary to achieve your goals. You will have control over the results you achieve through coaching. You will form a strong confidential bond with your coach.

How is career coaching different from career counseling?

Career counselors help their clients to get a job. Career counselors might repackage clients to appear more hirable for their job interviews. Career counselors do not help clients to become business owners or independent contractors. Career counselors are mostly loyal to whoever pays them, and rarely form a strong bond with their clients.

Career coaches assist their clients to discover their ideal income position or career. With their ideal career, clients will be able to "Go to Play" every day because they are doing what they love and excel at. Career coaches then assist their clients to get their ideal position or career, which may include becoming a business owner, an independent contractor, or an employee. Career coaches are totally loyal to their clients, and form a strong confidential bond

How is career coaching different from training?

The training process focuses on teaching you (the client) how to perform something. Trainers are experts in their fields and teach you various processes, methods, and or skills, to do something in a predetermined manner. Trainers do not focus on you improving as a person. Trainers only focus on teaching you a particular process. Trainers and their clients generally form a loose teacher-student relationship that is not close and is not held confidential. With training, you are instructed what to do and how to do it. You have little control over the process or outcome.

The life coaching process focuses on you (the client) achieving your chosen coaching goals. Life coaches are equal partners who assist you to improve and grow as a person as the means to achieve your goals. Personal coaches assist you to become the world's leading expert on your and take the actions necessary to achieve your goals. You will have control over the results you achieve through coaching. You will form a strong confidential bond with your coach.

Why haven't you heard more about life coaching?

Life coaching is not as well known, as it should be because it is such a private and confidential process. Clients rightfully receive all of the rewards and bask in all of the glory from achieving their coaching goals. It is neither the place nor the purpose of a coach to be acknowledged. In fact, a vast number of TCC clients (especially executives and leaders) consider their coach as their Secret Weapon.

How prevalent is life coaching?

The life coaching industry is growing rapidly every year. As you will see from the various reports below, life coaching is really catching on. However, it is very difficult to grasp how many people use life coaches, because of the private nature of coaching and the rapidly expanding fragmented state of the life coaching industry. Here is what others have said about the growth of life coaching:

"As a $100 million business, second only to the IT industry in its US growth rate, coaching is the latest must-have lifestyle and business accessory - the solution to both workplace and under-achievement and premature stress burnout" "Vive", Summer 2000, as re-quoted in www.coaches-learning-center.com/Articles. By comparison "Americans spent $563 million on self-help books last year, and surfed more than 12,000 Web sites devoted to mental health," as reported by Annie Murphy Paul in her article entitled Self-help: Shattering the Myths, published in Psychology Today Online-Features at www.psychologytoday.com for May 2001.

What Organizations have used TCC Member Coaches!

There have been over 200 different organizations that have used TCC Member Coaches, and this impressive list can be seen by clicking here.

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Is becoming a life Coach right for You?

After reading all of the above, you may feel that becoming a life coach may be the right profession for you. To better understand the life coaching profession from the coaches perspective, click here
to explore:

1. What a Professional Coach does

2. The unique characteristics of a successful Professional Coach


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