Before we get into this it’s important to note the differences of similar terms thrown around. What is the difference between consulting, counseling, coaching, and mentoring? Most people, particularly with mentoring and coaching, use some of these terms interchangeably but I think their are important differences to note.
Consulting takes a look at what someone’s doing, analyzes where their going wrong and tells them how to fix it and then walks out the door.
Counseling is a form of therapy or health care that provides psychological intervention that often deals with the past and present in trying to ‘fix’ people who have some kind of mental or emotional issue.
Counseling professions are highly regulated and often times in our culture …show more content…
Coaches are experts in creating and focusing on an agenda, splitting it into manageable tasks and shifting perspectives requisite to instill the right attitude, behavior and skills needed to achieve. As a coach the task at hand is most important.
Mentors are an expert in something specific through experience and take on a pupil whom they teach and walk down that same path together. A good mentor not only knows the way, they show, walk, and guide people down it.
Unlike mentors, coaches have not necessarily been down the path they are directing others on, but they are sages on the principles and advice that apply to their client’s success. Many of the best football coaches never played professionally, if even at all, but they are every bit as ‘on the top of their game’.
While this Money Tree is titled Coaching, it means either mentoring and or coaching as they involve the same framework to set them up and run them with only different semantics in application. As said, most people don’t differentiate …show more content…
Also some people will be better served by someone other than yourself in which case you can point them in the right direction.
Be mindful these are the high-level and high-end products that you will be creating and offering. You can do these on a one-on-one basis or as group sessions or some hybrid thereof. You can even record your group sessions using freeconferencecall.com and sell them as lower-level products as they lack the customization, personalization, and perhaps one or two hidden secrets you would otherwise give.
All this allots for a minuscule investment of time for the results achieved. As I mentioned earlier, coaches are not paid for the hours that they work, but for the knowledge and implementation they possess.
I strongly believe that hiring coaches and mentors is a key to creating more success in your life that pays 10 times more than the investment for their services. I invested in my business, even though I was broke and it lead me to where I am today. Aside from hiring coaches myself I also pay a monthly fee to be a part of the Strongbrook Mentoring