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Shown below are the descriptions of the methods
to find a coach and the possible advantages and disadvantages of
each, to provide you a true picture of your options.
The Coach Connection Method!
The Coach Connection (TCC) provides you a
personal matching service to discover your true needs and match
you with your ideal coaches. You will have free and open access
to your personal TCC Advocate, who will personally educate you about
coaching, guide you through the discovery process of your coaching
goals and your readiness, who will personally match you with your
ideal coaches, only if it is best for you to have a coach, and will
continually monitor your progress and the performance of your ideal
coach.
You will be a client of TCC whose sole purpose is to assure that
you maximize the quality and quantity of your results through coaching.
You will be matched with at least three of TCC's 140 Member Coaches,
who have been rigorously prescreened from over 1,300 that have applied
in one way or another, and who have personally been interviewed
for hours to further define in detail whom they want as their ideal
clients.
What
are the advantages of using TCC to engage
a coach?
1 You will increase
your probability of achieving your coachable goals to 96.5%.You will begin coaching only after
all Four
of the Key Conditions to successful coaching have been met.
2 You will discover whether coaching is right
for you, before you enter coaching. Your
TCC Advocate will objectively explain coaching and the other human
improvement processes to allow you to make an informed, non-pressured
decision of what is best for you.
3 You will get to test-drive the coaching
process, at No Risk to you. You will
experience actual coaching which is undoubtedly new to you, to see
and feel how it really works (at least six sessions) at a greatly
reduced rate of only
under TCC’s full Money-Back
Guarantee.
4 You will enjoy one-stop shopping for all
of your coaching needs. TCC provides
all forms of coaching throughout the English-speaking world.
5 You will pick your ideal coach from the
three (or more) personally matched coaches, after experiencing their
coaching. You will enjoy the exceptional
experience and qualifications of your TCC Member Coaches, who are
excited to coach you, because they had selected you beforehand as
their ideal-coaching clients, and because they were three of only
140 coaches out of over 1,350 who were good enough to pass TCC’s
rigorous coach screening process.
6. You will accomplish your coaching goals
much faster. You will begin coaching
with more prior understanding and confidence through your open consultation
with your TCC Advocate, you will save considerable time and effort
by enjoying the painstaking prescreening of the TCC Member Coaches,
you will enjoy an exceptional coaching fit with you guaranteed ideal
coach right off the bat, you will receive coaching from very qualified
and experienced coaches who know how to assist you smoothly and
quickly, and you will enjoy the concentrated coaching efforts and
attention of your TCC Member Coach, because they will be free from
handling administrative or billing duties.
7 You will accomplish your goals with less
cost. You will achieve them much faster,
and TCC
has already negotiated your coaching prices to well below the
industry average.
8 You will enjoy the unique advantage of
being the client of TCC. TCC will
be your special partner and Advocate to make sure everything works
for you. Your personal TCC Advocate will oversee the entire process
to provide you the assurance that your TCC Member Coach will always
provide you the exceptional coaching you deserve and expect to suit
your terms. You can easily switch
coaches, and/or hire multiple coaches simultaneously at anytime.
TCC will coordinate and monitor all coaching activities.
9 You will maximize the quality and quantity
of the goals you achieve. You will
begin coaching only after all Four
of the Key Conditions to successful coaching have been met,
and you will receive exceptional coaching from your chosen ideal
TCC Member Coach who is focused and rated on your degree of success.
10 You will enjoy the freedom of not being
asked to sign a confining contract. You
will not be forced to commit to a long term and expensive process.
You are very unique, and you will be able to schedule coaching,
stop coaching, and even restart coaching on your terms within your
life timetable to get the most out of coaching for you.
11. You will have more fun. We
have fun at TCC and we want you to join in. You will enjoy the thrills
of discovering the many wonderful talents; passions and gifts that
have been hidden within you and you will feel the excitement of
actually tapping into your newfound gifts and following your personal
passions and priorities on your terms.
The Privacy
and Confidential promise of The Coach Connection.
Everything you do with TCC will
be kept very private and confidential. Period! We reveal noting
about you to anyone. We do not use your information to contact you
again, unless you specifically request us to. We have to receive
your expressed permission to include you in our Newsletter list,
(where you voluntarily opt in) and we immediately unsubscribe you
at your request. We do not provide any information about you to
anyone, unless you provide TCC with your specifically expressed
permission. (We had to obtain specific permission to provide the
many testimonials, published on this site and elsewhere.) We do
not even reveal if we have talked to you, let alone being one of
our clients. If anyone should inquire about your contacting TCC,
we will only tell him or her that maybe you have contacted us or
maybe you haven't.
In addition, what goes on between
your TCC Member Coach and you is so confidential and private that
the only way anyone will know about it is if you tell them. In fact,
your TCC Member Coach cannot even reveal to TCC what transpires
between you two with the exception of scheduling and coaching fee
matters, which we have to know about, because that is our job.
TCC keeps your information and
your involvement in life coaching secret. We are proud of what
our clients accomplish through life coaching, and we love to brag
about you, which we do on our TCC Clients Bragging Site. But we
know that you must have total control and confidence in the secrecy
of what you do with TCC and transpires between you and your TCC
Member Coach for you to achieve your coachable goals on your
terms.
What are the disadvantages
of using TCC to engage a coach?
1 You will arouse suspicions and the attention
of the people closest to you. You
will become such a happy person with far fewer frustrations, a greater
sense of inner confidence, and with more zest for life in only two
to four short months. Unless you inform your closest loved ones,
that you are engaging a coach through TCC ahead of time, so they
know what to expect, you may have to explain why you have changed
so much in short a short time.
2 The TCC program sounds
too good to be true. You are probably wondering that there
has to be a catch. Why would TCC offer all of these advantages,
at such beneficial prices, and with such a strong guarantee? The
answer is simple. We have created a WIN-WIN-WIN scenario. You WIN
by achieving your goals faster and more completely, your TCC Member
Coach WINS because YOU WIN, and TCC WINS because you both WIN.
3 TCC cannot have such
high quality coaches without charging very high prices. If
TCC's Member Coaches do not charge high prices, then they must not
be very good. Charging high prices does not signify higher quality
coaching. Instead higher prices can mean having to pay for higher
advertising costs, sales commissions, higher overhead, and unnecessary
assessments, tests, and other "coaching" products.
4. You will not be able
to engage a consultant or counselor through TCC. TCC specializes
in providing true coaching at an exceptional level. TCC does not
try to entice you in under the coaching banner, and then act as
a consultant or trainer. The life coaching process is a wonderful
way to improve your life and business, when used the right way.
The consulting and counseling processes also provide great values
when they are used the right way. However, the values of each of
these processes are greatly diluted when they are mixed with each
other.
Attend a teleclass
entitled:Is
Engaging a Life Coach Right for Me!
or Is Becoming
a Coach Right for Me?
What Other Methods are there besides
TCC to find a Coach
1.
Ask friends, family and acquaintances to refer you to their coach.
If you know someone you respect who
has used a coach, you can ask them to refer you to their coach.
The advantages are that you can connect
with a coach right away, you will have some idea how he or she
operates, and you know the coach was successful with someone you
respect.
The disadvantages are that the coach
who is ideal for your friend will most likely not be ideal for
you. You will have different goals, a different personality and
a different situation. You will be required to negotiate fees
and services directly with the coach. Most coaches list a range
of fees, and structure their fees many different ways. Some coaches
require contracts, others don't. You will be on your own, and
unless you find other coaches, you will have no sense of comparison.
2. Hire the coach you meet personally or
observe during a speech or seminar.
Coaches are strongly encouraged
to network and to speak to groups whenever possible, as a means
of meeting prospective clients. You might personally encounter
coaches in social and business settings, as well as through observing
them during speeches and seminars.
The advantages are that you will get
a personal sense of the coach, you can connect with the coach
right away, and you might be able to interview the coach before
proceeding. You will probably be able to also get an introductory
"coaching" session.
The disadvantages are that you encounter
them in the personal face to face environment that is their recognized
marketing mode, and it will probably differ from their telephone
coaching mode. You are also left to chance and are somewhat restricted
to the geographic circles you operate in. The introductory "coaching"
sessions will most likely include an interview portion and some
form of sales portion by the coach. You will be required to negotiate
fees and services directly with the coach. Most coaches list a
range of fees, and structure their fees many different ways. Some
coaches require contracts, others do not. You will be on your
own, and unless you find other coaches, you will have no sense
of comparison.
You will have reduced your chance of success
because you have personally met your coach. See why
Telephone Coaching is better for you than face to face coaching
3. Look up individual coaches through the
Internet or the Yellow Pages.
Thousands of coaches advertise through
personal web sites on the Internet. Some coaches also advertise
in the Yellow Pages, but not many, because of the cost. We will
discuss Internet web sites only.
The advantages are that you can use the
Internet to visit thousands of sites, you can shop around for
possible qualifications and prices, you are not restricted by
geography, you can frequently get introductory "coaching"
sessions, and you will be able to establish some form of comparison
between coaches.
The disadvantages are that you will be
strongly influenced by the quality of their web site and the promotional
material it contains, which may have little connection to their
being your ideal coach. The introductory "coaching"
sessions will most likely include an interview portion and some
form of sales portion by the coach, and finding the right type
of coach for you is extremely difficult and confusing. You will
be required to negotiate fees and services directly with the coach.
Most coaches list a range of fees, and structure their fees many
different ways. Some coaches require contracts, others don't.
You will be on your own.
4. Use coaching referral services, lists,
or groups.
Coaching associations, training
schools and other groups have organized coach referral services
and lists to get clients for their participating coaches. Other
coaches have banned together to market their services collectively.
The different "marketing groups," their advantages and
disadvantages are discussed below.
A. Internet based coach
referral services (CRS). These services are usually connected
with coaching associations or coaching schools to help their members
or students advertise and get clients. They recruit coaches and
normally charge an annual fee for coaches to list their services
on their web-based database. They normally accept a large number
(some over 4,500) of coaches without screening. Normally, the
participants are required to fill out standardized forms. You
will be asked to complete on-line web forms describing the types
of coaches you want. The system uses computerized programs and
key words as matching criteria to provide you the names of coaches
that appear to fit your requested qualifications. Some referral
services will send you any number of coach matches (as high as
100). You normally receive the names by e-mail. Sometimes your
e-mail address (at the minimum) and your name will be given to
the coaches matched, and they will contact you to market their
services. Virtually no human contact occurs, until you call one
of the coaches whose name was sent to you.
The advantages are that you will have
access to a large number of coaches in one place, you can get
some form of coach matching, and you can compare the information
of the coaches who were supposedly matched to your criteria, before
you contact them. You can shop around for possible qualifications
and prices, you are not restricted by geography, and you can frequently
get introductory "coaching" sessions.
The disadvantages are that you are required
to be very knowledgeable about your coaching needs to complete
the forms, you are at the mercy of the computer program and the
way you and the coaches filled out the forms to be connected to
your ideal coaches, you must wade through many people who have
little if any coaching experience, due to lack of screening, and
you can easily be overwhelmed with too much information. You are
required to deal with each coach on your own, learn about their
services, decide if they are right for you, and negotiate fees.
Most coaches list a range of fees, and structure their fees many
different ways. Some coaches require contracts, others don't.
You are on your own.
B. Internet based coaching lists, sometimes
called "coach warehouses." Some coaching associations
or schools provide lists of their coaches. Coaches pay annual
fees to have a standard one page web page shown on this system.
They can have over 10,000 unscreened coaches. Participants can
also have their name and web page prominently featured by paying
extra fees. In these systems you have a miniature search engine
to sort through the standardized individual web pages of the coaches.
Key word criteria are once again used to separate coaches. The
key word "business coach" produced 1,105 different coach
web pages in one of these "coach warehouses."
The advantages are that you will have
access to a large number of coaches in one place, you can compare
standard web pages for each coach, you can surf from web page
to web page by using the internal search engine, you can shop
around for possible qualifications and prices, you are not restricted
by geography, and you can frequently get introductory "coaching"
sessions.
The disadvantages are that your comparison
information is limited to the basic forms of the standard web
site, making it difficult to distinguish your ideal coaches, you
must wade through many people who have little if any coaching
experience, due to lack of screening, and you can easily be overwhelmed
with too much information. You are required to deal with each
coach on your own, learn about their services, decide if they
are right for you, and negotiate fees. Most coaches list a range
of fees and structure their fees many different ways. Some coaches
require contracts, others do not. You are on your own.
C. Groups of coaches that band together
for marketing purposes. They usually have a common theme
or specialty. Some imply screening is done because coaches claim
to be certified, or have consultant type historical qualifications.
There may be from 4 to 50 coaches in each group. Matching is sometimes
done using unknown methods, or you may be assigned a coach to
suit their criteria. Most of these groups concentrate their efforts
on corporate coaching.
The advantages are that you can categorize
the groups to match what you believe your needs are, you can sometimes
have a telephone number to call and talk to a sales representative,
you can shop around for possible qualifications and prices, and
you can frequently get introductory "coaching" sessions.
The disadvantages are that you will have
trouble finding most of those groups, you are frequently assigned
a coach, you must know and understand exactly what you want from
your ideal coach, you are limited to the number of coaches within
the group, if any prescreening of coaches is done it is performed
using mysterious methods, these groups are normally more expensive,
they normally require contracts, you are required to negotiate
fees with a range of different fee structures, you will probably
be restricted by geography, you will possibly encounter sales
techniques, and you are on your own.
D. Groups listed under nationally recognized
authors, consultants, or speakers. Many nationally recognized
authors, speakers and consultants have formed "coaching"
groups that claim to provide coaching. They generally mix coaching
with consulting in structured set programs to coincide with the
writings of the author, or the philosophy and practices of the
consultant or speaker. A majority of these groups target corporations
or businesses as their primary customers. Almost all of these
groups have sales forces.
The advantages are that you will have
a preview of the structured coaching/consulting process available,
they are very specialized and might fit your (normally corporate
only) needs, they have sales forces who will spend time answering
your questions and providing further sales information, they provide
coaching/consulting ego gratification and justification because
of their famous name recognition, you can get a team of coaches
through one service, and you are probably not limited by geography.
The disadvantages are that they range
from expensive to very expensive, you are required to truly know
what you are doing before to engage their services, they normally
require that you sign contracts and commit to time based programs,
their very structured programs are much more consulting and training
in nature, their programs are generally purchased on a corporate
level, they almost always "assign" coaches/consultants,
you will be subjected to very effective sales pressures, you will
most likely have to pay for considerable travel expenses, and
you are on your own.
Mixing consulting and coaching will greatly reduce the possibility
of achieving your objectives. Consulting and coaching are as different
as (American) football and golf. They do not mix. Yet, they are
frequently blended together to produce poor results. To get a
detailed comparison between the coaching process and consulting,
and why it is vital for you to understand the differences, click
here.
The choice of methods
is yours!
After you have reviewed the above
methods of connecting with a personal coach, please select the
process that best suits your needs, desires and other personal
considerations.
Happy Coaching!
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