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The Double Win

3 Questions to Ask When Choosing a Business Coach

The Double Win

Michael Hyatt

Management, Intentionality, Selfdevelopment, Education, Teamleadership, Personaldevelopment, Productivity, Self-improvement, Business, Achievement, Influence, Selfleadership, Leadership

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

You’re a high achiever, and you want it to stay that way. That means you need some coaching. But these days, it seems like everybody with a laptop and a website is a business coach. How do you know if you’ll be getting solid advice? Based on over a decade of experience with business coaches, we’ve developed a successful coaching framework that’s producing real-world results for our clients—both at work and in life. We’ll give you three key questions that will instantly evaluate any prospective business coach.  Answer three questions, and you’ll gain instant clarity on your decision. You’ll be free from the worry that you’re taking the wrong advice. And you’ll start seeing fresh results in your business and your personal life. Here’s a sneak peek inside this episode— Why you need to choose carefully when selecting a business coach. The dirty little secret of the business coaching industry.  Why business coaching is now a “wild west” environment.  Our worst experience with a business coach.  The first thing you need to look for in a business coach.  The difference between a great talent and a great coach.  Questions you can ask to uncover a coach’s experience level.  Does it matter if the coach has experience in your particular industry? How to tell if a coach is taking their own advice. Why it’s vital to see that your coach’s strategies have been used in other businesses.  The best question to ask a coach about their methods and outcomes. How to know for sure that a coach can help you.  Tips for finding out how effective a coach really is. The difference between the two major coaching formats.  Why you should absolutely start with a group coaching format. How group coaching builds your skill set faster than one-on-one coaching. The hidden benefit of participating in a coaching group.  Why coaching groups are often better at accountability than a one-on-one coach. The final question to ask a prospective coach. Now that you’ve got some perspective on how to evaluate a prospective business coach, here’s your next step. Take the free Business Health Assessment. It will evaluate your business based on 7 key metrics. You’ll get a personalized score on strengths and weaknesses. And that will give you instant clarity on where your business needs to grow.  Resources from This Episode Business Health Assessment BusinessAccelerator See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

When you're experiencing growth in your organization, you can't do everything on your own, and you don't have to.

0:06.0

With the help of our friends at Belay, you can simplify your life with an assistant and stop doing it all.

0:12.0

For our lead to win listeners,

0:13.5

Belay is offering their free download of 25 things

0:16.8

you can delegate to an assistant today.

0:19.2

Text lead to win, all one word, to 3.. That's lead to win, all one word to 3196.

0:29.0

Hi, I'm Michael Hyatt. And I'm Megan Hyatt Miller.

0:34.0

And this is Lead to Win, our weekly podcast to help you win at work and succeed at life.

0:39.0

Last time, we talked about the three reasons you need a business coach, and today we're going to tell you how to choose the coach

0:45.3

that's right for you.

0:47.2

Yeah, this is a really important topic because the coaching landscape is so crowded.

0:56.4

I should say coaching in air quotes because it feels like anybody with a laptop and a website or an Instagram feed is now a coach and it's almost

1:06.4

like there's coaching inflation going on.

1:09.0

They can have a conflicting, you know, sense of conflicting philosophies where you're like one person's telling you one thing,

1:14.6

somebody else is telling you something else and you know that can lead to huge mistakes in your business.

1:20.3

Not just wasting the money on the coaching coaching but if you try to implement those

1:23.4

things it can be disastrous. Well as much as I believe in coaching hiring the wrong

1:27.9

coach can be really detrimental to your business. It's kind of like marrying the

1:31.5

wrong person. Exactly I'm gonna get some examples as we go through the show. But before we get any

1:34.7

further, we've got to bring Larry on because Larry's the guy that guides us through the show.

1:38.9

Larry, welcome. Wow, thank you. I'm going to try to live up to that. I feel like you just got a promotion. Yeah, I do. I think of you is our guide, you know, the podcast guide.

1:48.0

Well, the coaching market is crowded, Megan. I was reading recently that there are now some 175,000 personal coaches in the U.S.

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