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MENTOR COACHING

TCC's Special Mentor Coach Selection Process

(TCC only accepts and keeps mentor coaches
who are good enough to meet our guarantees to you!)

TCC Member Mentor Coaches have become the highest quality
group of mentor coaches in the English-speaking world

How do mentor coaches make the TCC Member Coach team?

To make the TCC Member Coach team, coaches must undergo a rigorous multi-phased screening. Since June 2001, only 169 coaches have been accepted from over 2,000 applicants. There are approximately 130 active TCC Member Coaches, located in 41 States, Canada, Australia, The United Kingdom,New Zealand, and Europe. TCC does not recruit coaches to collect their fees, or create a warehouse of listed coaches for you to wade through. TCC Member Mentor Coaches do not know who the other Member Coaches are and that is how they want it, because mentor coaching is Not a Competitive Sport. Life coaching is about YOU our client and not about the other coaches.

How do TCC Member Mentor Coaches remain on the team?

According to Thomas Leonard the credibility of a mentor coach can only measured by the quantity and quality of the goals achieved by their clients. We agree. TCC Member Mentor Coaches are constantly monitored to discover how well their clients achieve their coachable goals. Only TCC Member Coaches whose clients achieve a very high percentage of their coachable goals remain on the team and are recommended to you. Through this monitoring, 39 coaches have been separated from the team.

TCC Member Mentor Coaches are encouraged to continue their education to improve their coaching capacity. TCC Member Mentor Coaches are not employees of TCC. TCC has no quotas. TCC selects the right coaches to create the most ideal match with each TCC client, on a client-by-client basis.

How does TCC treat Coach Certifications?

A number of TCC Member Coaches have obtained coaching certifications. We applaud them for doing so. TCC would be providing you a disservice and we would risk considerable money and reputation if we blindly required our TCC Member Coaches to certified. We have found that the quality of a mentor coach cannot be determined by whether the coach is certified or not. (There are approximately 50 different coaching certifications that can be bought today) You are encouraged to read why this is true from an in depth and very objective independent report on mentor coaching credentialing. We will not risk your coaching successes and our guarantees of the quality of our mentor coaches on the certification processes. Instead, we chose to spend considerable time (over 2,600 man hours to date), effort, and money on using our tried and tested methods to discover excellent coaches for you and TCC. In fact, we have denied applications for over 250 certified coaches because they did not meet our standards.

Our motto is that we only want Member Mentor Coaches who are so good
we would recommend them to our mother or father.

What personal characteristics must TCC Member Mentor Coaches possess?

There are certain personal and professional characteristics that are much better suited for mentor coaching and are required to become a successful coach. Here are the most important characteristics that TCC Member Mentor Coaches must have to be recommended to you:

A. TCC Member Mentor Coaches are totally trustworthy and have and maintain the highest integrity.

Integrity is critical. Member Coach's integrity must be real, genuine and constant. True and effective coaching will only occur when there is complete and deserved trust between the client and coach.

B. TCC Member Mentor Coaches have "The Gift of Coaching".

Every TCC Member Mentor Coach will have the special personal characteristic of the "Gift of Coaching." With the "Gift" they genuinely care more about the success of their clients (you) than they do themselves. They are very "You" centered, and naturally focus on assisting their clients to achieve their goals, because they gain their personal and ego rewards from the accomplishments of their clients. They have a very strong love and respect for other people. You will be the true center of attention, when a TCC Member Mentor Coach coaches you. You are equal partners, which can only be achieved through genuine and full mutual respect.

C. TCC Member Mentor Coaches dedicate their full attention and energies to TCC clients.

Clients are always the center of attention. Member Coaches are you focused and not I centered. Member Coaches do not seek or accept credit, or fame for what their clients achieve. Member Coaches feel rewarded because their clients succeed. People with the “gift to coach” have a natural talent for focusing on others and have a genuine internal motivation to assist others to prosper. Helping others succeed rewards them greatly.

D. TCC Member Mentor Coaches have full control of and subordinate their own agendas, biases, and desires to judge or criticize others.

Member Coaches must be able to make very objective observations and even more importantly, communicate the observations in a very clear and truthful manner to clients. Personal agendas and bias are kept out of the process, especially to avoid presenting a nonobjective observance. People have biases, but Member Coaches involve their biases as rarely as possible and only in an open honest way to their clients.

E. TCC Member Mentor Coaches control their desire to advise, control, or manipulate their clients.

The coaching process is like no other in that the path or route for clients to achieve their goals will not be known or organized in advance. The path constantly changes depending upon the client, and any control or manipulation by the coach will, in essence, halt the coaching process. The thought or practice of telling a client they "should" do or not do is eliminated.

F. TCC Member Mentor Coaches have a keen ability to listen and seek out the truth from their clients.

Member Coaches exert 100% effort to listening to all aspects of what clients are truly saying and meaning. A natural desire to tune into others is very helpful. One of the most difficult things any human being faces is the ability to clearly express their inner feelings and thoughts. It is very important for Member Coaches to not only seek the true inner feelings of their clients by encouraging them to try to express their true feelings, but to actually discover what their true feelings are.

G. TCC Member Mentor Coaches have the ability to communicate their observations to their clients without any hint of expertise, or superiority.

Once the inner most and normally very guarded feelings of a client are discovered, the Member Coach must describe them to the client in a very supportive and clear manner, without any hint of judgment.

H. TCC Member Mentor Coaches are firm with their observations and present the truth to their clients.

Many clients seek and need "accountability" from their coaches. This is another way of asking for the continued presentation of the truth, without allowing the client to talk around the truth. Life coaching, in essence, can be called providing true accountability with caring and understanding.

I. TCC Member Mentor Coaches have excellent telephone communication and relationship skills.

Over 91% of all successful coaching is conducted via the telephone. Telephone coaching is much more effective, efficient, convenient, confidential and much less costly for clients.

Attend a teleclass entitled:Is Engaging a Mentor Coach Right for Me? or Is Becoming a Mentor Coach Right for Me?

TCC Member Mentor Coaches specialize in coaching clients with life goals

The personal coaching field has many different specialties and TCC expends extra energy and time to interview all Member Coaches who have met all of the above characteristics to determine IN DETAIL whom they consider to be their ideal clients and what they want to coach them to achieve. This detailed ideal client description is recorded in TCC's special data base and is used to create the most desirable and effective match ups between our clients and our mentor coaches.

TCC Member Mentor Coaches have chosen to specialize in coaching clients with life goals and have shown through various means that they have the motivation, and experience to assist their clients to accomplish outstanding achievements.

TCC clients are matched with their ideal TCC Member Mentor Coaches

Once your TCC advocate learns what your coaching goals are and who you are, your advocate will select a minimum of three Member Mentor Coaches who have described you as their ideal client.

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