Yes, I need a new word to describe my new thrust. I am in training to be a coach, yet that word has acquired a negative connotation. So many well-intentioned people who have no true skills have chosen to take the human race’s natural inclination to help others and try to make a living at it.
I’ve watched the reaction when I tell people I am going to coach. I’ve even been told that I should come up with a better description of what I do.
I have the experience to back up my desire. When I owned a real estate search firm, my instructions to my staff were to make sure that everyone who walked in our doors walked out feeling better. I also grew proficient at using assessments to help people recognize their success behaviors and skills, and to ‘match’ employer and candidate quickly and well. I ’see’ solutions to problems easily, and I can also see both sides of a situation. Coaching is about teaching others to own these abilities of their own.
So, how do we describe that? This is the right time for me to apply my skills at perceiving someone else’s strengths, at ‘discovering’ new possible directions, at foreseeing important trends, and most important, my thirty three years of successful life and business experience.
I have overcome some pretty significant challenges in my life and with that has come the confidence to know that I can handle what comes my way. I want to share that wonderful feeling with others.
The way I explain my goal is: ‘Everyone needs an advocate with no agenda’.
I like the word ‘advocate’. What would you think if I said to you – “I want to become your advocate in realizing your life dreams?”
