What Do Coaches Do?
by Dwayne Cox

People ask me all the time, "What do coaches do?"
While I am not sure about what all coaches do, here is a list of a few things I do with my clients.

1.   use highly developed communication, relationship and intuition skills to help you set and achieve BIG goals

2.   partner with you to convert your vision and your ideas into reality

3.   evoke Excellence

4.   challenge you to stretch beyond what you think is possible, "widening your gap" between where you are and where you can be

5.   partner with you to build a bridge to your (new)(stretch) goals

6.   map out a strategic plan for your business

7.   map out a strategic plan for your life

8.   work with you to "get over yourself"

9.   help you create new patterns for yourself, new ways of being

10.   invent new possibilities for yourself and your life

11.   stop you from getting stopped by habits that do not serve you

12.   help you "Play a Bigger Game"

13.   work with you to generate more energy

14.   work with you to generate more enthusiasm

15.   work with you to sustain your enthusiasm

16.   partner with you around your learning

17.   partner with you to encourage your creativity

18.   get you to think in terms of transformation versus change

19.   work with you on your focus

20.   partner with you to increase your revenue

21.   partner with you to increase your "value add"

22.   assist you in eliminating tolerations

23.   partner with you in obliterating barriers to success

24.   partner with you in building a Support Team

25.   partner with you in creating an Environment that supports you in what you are up to

26.   cause you to think about the best use of your time every moment

27.   model what is possible for you

28.   share distinctions with you that make a difference

29.   LISTEN

30.   ask provocative questions you are not asking yourself

31.   provide you with tools to enable you to accomplish more

32.   provide you with language to enable you to accomplish more

33.   provide you with competencies that enable you to accomplish more

34.   provide you with practices that enable you to accomplish more

35.   provide you with the structure that gets you to accomplish more

36.   work with you to increase your social competence and interpersonal effectiveness

37.   act as a sounding board/mirror

38.   inspire you and champion your endeavors

39.   build your confidence

40.   provide candid feedback that makes a difference

41.   elicit internal commitment, motivation and self-directed learning

42.   facilitate renewal and resilience

43.   model what S T R E T C H I N G looks like

44.   develop myself extensively so I can be MORE for Everyone

45.   focus on solution

46.   lead by example

47.   get my clients to learn to say YES!!

48.   get my clients to learn to say NO!

49.   catalyze miracles

50.   raise your standards

51.   change your strategy

52.   help you hold yourself accountable

53.   use highly developed communication, relationship, and intuition skills to help you set and achieve goals or convert ideas to reality

About the author:
Dwayne Cox  is the Program Manager and Business Coach for
Coach Universe, Synergy Central, and Business Innovation Lab,
global virtual social networks for entrepreneurs, change agents and free agents.
He is a Business Coach, consultant and trainer, partnering with winners to achieve breakthrough results in their businesses, careers, and lives.

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