Ask the Business Coach

What is Business Coaching?

Paul Miller from 3D People shares his knowledge and expertise as a Business Coach.

What do all the best athletes have in common?

Apart from an innate desire and determination to succeed………. they all have a coach!

A coach is the athletes' secret weapons, working behind the scenes to make sure the athletes are performing at their peak. If you want to play in the "big leagues" and build a superstar business, do what professional athletes do: get coached.

Professional athlete or small business owner, here's what a coach can do for you:

1. Keep you focused.
2. Point you in the right direction.
3. Hold you accountable.  A coach wants you to reach peak performance.
4. Cultivate your talent.
5. Invest in your success

Coaching is a professional partnership between you the coachee and a qualified coach. The aim of this partnership is to support you in achieving results based on the goals you set.

Through the process of coaching, you’ll focus on the skills and actions you need to take to successfully produce results that are personally relevant. You choose the focus of the conversation, while the coach listens and contributes observations and questions as well as concepts and principles which can assist in generating possibilities and identifying actions.

Through the coaching process, you can achieve the clarity that you need to support the actions to take.  Coaching can accelerate your progress by providing you with greater focus and awareness of possibilities you might not have considered by working alone.

Coaching concentrates on where you are now and what you are willing to do to get where you want to be in the future.

Benefits

When you engage in coaching, you can expect to experience fresh perspective on personal challenges and opportunities, enhanced thinking and decision making skills and increased confidence in carrying out your role.

If you have a fairly clear idea of the desired outcome, coaching can be a useful tool for developing a strategy to achieve that outcome with greater ease.

Since coaching is a partnership, also ask yourself:

• Would I find it valuable to be coached, to have another viewpoint?
• Would I be willing to consider new perspectives?
• Am I ready to devote the time to coaching?
• Am I willing to stop or change self-defeating behaviours which limit my success?
• Is this the right time for me to accept coaching?

How does it work?

Coaching typically begins with a personal face-to-face meeting to help assess your current opportunities and challenges, define the scope of the relationship, identify priorities for action and establish specific desired outcomes.

Subsequent coaching sessions will be ideally conducted in person (online and Skype coaching is available), with each session lasting a previously established length of time. Between scheduled sessions you may be asked to complete specific actions that support the achievement of your goals.

Your coach may provide you with additional resources in the form of relevant articles, checklists, assessments or models to support your thinking and actions.  The duration of the coaching relationships varies according to your personal needs and preferences.

Reasons why you would seek coaching:

• Help meet a challenge, stretch goal or make the best of an opportunity that is urgent, compelling or exciting
• You have a gap in knowledge, skills, confidence or resources
• A big stretch is being asked or required of you and is time sensitive
• You would like to accelerate your results
• You need to correct the course that I’m taking at work due to a setback
• You have a lack of clarity and there are choices to be made
• You are extremely successful and your success has started to become problematic
• Your work and life are out of balance and this is creating unwanted consequences
• You would like to identify my core strengths and how best to use them
• You have a need and desire to be better organised and self managing

What makes me an expert?

For many years I have been specialising in helping people like you turn their dreams into reality by utilising proven, leading edge techniques that are used the World over by top sports and business people alike.

I encourage, motivate and challenge my clients to new levels of achievement. From experience, I know that you will not only get what you want, but that you will also enjoy life more consistently.

As well as working in the business arena I work with talented athletes to develop their mental toughness so they are better able to compete at the highest level possible for them.

I love what I do and get a real buzz from helping people from all walks of life unravel the puzzles that life and work present to us.   I have experience and expertise in many management and personal development issues and have completed projects in the UK, the Middle East and Far East with a wide range of blue chip and Public body organisations including: Prudential, Norwich Union, Institute of Directors, Atomic Weapons Establishment, Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Arabia), Wellcome Trust, Cambridgeshire Fire Brigade and JP Morgan plus numerous SMEs.

Over the past 5 years I have become increasingly interested in how people can build more choices and flexibility in demanding response and management environments. I have become increasingly involved with coaching teams and individuals to create resourceful ways of thinking to achieve the success they desire. To this end I have developed my 3D coaching philosophy of Desire, Determination and Discipline.

Contact Paul
To find out how I may be of service to you please:
Email; paul@3d-people.com
Phone: 07973 501099
Web: www.3d-people.com