Absolutely not, each of these professional services have its place in a person's professional and personal life when it meets the individual's specific needs.

Coaching assumes that the entrepreneur or business leader is an expert when it comes to their business. The coach's role is to help the client clarify what they really want and then develop strategies and skills - based on each client's unique personality and style - to achieve their goals, quickly. A consultant provides expert advice and knowledge on specific issues or situations.

Coaching works with clients who would like to improve their life, while focusing on the future. This is usually accomplished by designing a life plan, setting goals and redesigning the way you react to life's challenges. Therapy generally focuses on a specific issue in ones life, looking at the past to discover why the client feels the way they do. For in depth clarity, go to "Coach-Connect" where Dr. Jodi is currently a member of a professional team of Coaches!

This is highly individual, as you can see in the feedback included on this site. Your sessions will help you identify clear goals and tactics and support you in achieving them. Often as part of the changes you make, you will become more innovative. Innovative individuals seem more likely to be rewarded with better remuneration; promotional prospects and job security and be able to cope better with pressure and change around them.

Business coaching can involve consulting when it is appropriate for the coach to offer the client advice based on skills, expertise, and training. It is also similar in that the best answers almost always come from the client. The most important distinction is that the coach stays with the client to help implement the new skills, changes, and goals, and to make sure that results really happen. Business coaching is not therapy. Coaches don't work on "personal issues" or dig into your the past.

Mentoring engages the assistance of a recognized expert in a certain field to impart technical information specific to that field. For example, a business mentor, is a successful and influential person who will offer his/her advice, knowledge, information, experience, and contacts to you as a prot?g? or student, in order to further your career or expand your business. Integral coaching, on the other hand, is an equal partnership between a coach and a client.

People often ask what is the difference between Mentoring and Consulting? In the old days you would mentor under a master to learn the secrets of his trade. This would often take many years and would come after a long apprenticeship. In the trading world you can establish a mentoring relationship for as little as a week with one of our online mentoring seminars or as long as a several years with one on one mentoring. During this time you will learn what the more experienced trader can teach you.

Coaching focuses on achieving specific results (better grades) with clear step-by-step directions from your personal coach once a week for 15 straight weeks.

What these three fields have in common is an interest to support, assist, and encourage individuals so that they can excel in interests, and activities that are important to them. Even in a specialized field of interest, for example tennis, Coaches, mentors, and tutors may have skills and expertise that are individually specialized. Yet, one individual may have the experience, skill, expertise, and knowledge to provide all of the services of individual mentors, tutors, and coaches.

Different people describe these terms differently and some use them interchangeably. We make the following distinctions. A mentor is an experienced and trustworthy adviser, guide or tutor external to the organisation, group or work team and chosen by the client to provide confidential personalised support - especially for systematic self-development. Mentoring is confidential support from an experienced and trustworthy adviser, guide or tutor, especially for methodical self-development.

a personal life coach, I help you find your own answers. People are more likely to take action if it is something they themselves have come up with and not been told to do. A consultant is an expert who dispenses advice and has all the answers. I do not give advice per se but do problem-solve and brainstorm with you.

Coaches ask insightful questions and challenge clients to discover their own answers. Consultants tell clients what to do, and, in many cases, do the work for the client.

Many people mistakenly assume that the coaching process and the consulting process are, at least similar, if not the same. Yet, the two processes are so VERY DIFFERENT. It is vital that you understand the differences so that you will be able to maximize the results you attain from either process. The processes are so different, that a person will get poor results, if any, from either process, if mistakenly treated as the other.

Coaching is not psychotherapy. Psychotherapy is based on a medical model of diagnosis and treatment of mental illness and is a health care service. Psychotherapy usually focuses on resolving or alleviating symptoms of illness or trauma, understanding the underlying personality dynamics, and helping patients to cope with their psychological problems. Coaching focuses on enhancing one’s personal achievement and fulfillment stemming from a place of emotional health.

Consulting brings expertise to you. Coaching brings expertise out of you. And with the insights and options you’ll gain from this process, you’ll make your best decisions.

No. However, a strong business background is a must. If you have owned or managed a business before, or if you have a background in sales, then this is probably the business for you.