“Get a coach, everyone needs a coach”

“You don’t need coaching for ordinary results.”
Robert Hargrove

“You will never maximize your potential in any area without coaching. It’s impossible. You may be good. You may even be better than everyone else. But without outside input you will never be as good as you could be.”
Everybody needs a coach. Therefore, coaching is the core of all we do in our performance improvement. It's the vehicle for growing disciples, learning personal and profesional competencies, developing leaders, and passing along the legacy we've been entrusted with to others.
Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, states that the best advice he ever got was from board member John Doerr.

“Get a coach, everyone needs a coach”
At the begin of the experience, when board member, John Doerr, suggested this, Schmidt resisted because as an experienced CEO he didn't think he needed a coach. But now he is a big fan of coaching and states in an interview with Fortune Magazine that "everyone needs a coach".

Why do you think would a successful executive--someone talented as Eric Schmidt benefit from a coach? At this video you can find some reasons why an executive will hire a coach:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GP8dK4JH1Mc&feature=related
Personally, like Erich Schmidt explain, for me the best advice I ever got was: you need a coach. “Every body needs a coach”
We're not in crisis, we are in a business era, the era of creativity. And it's important to admit that we are not as we wish, accept this change, and find the challenge and opportunity for personal growth and professional this imply and act to leave the comfort zone.

It’s evident that a few months ago an environment is perceived differently in regard to the world of business in this country.

Many companies have gone, and will continue marching, dividend-paying banks instead of lending, but also new projects are emerging, young entrepreneurs with bright ideas and start-up companies with tremendous potential.
We finally realizing that the crisis was not just a climate change business and change the rules we’re getting through innovation and courage. It’s time for courageous people, who want to create and develop new solutions.
Today we are giving back to the banks and in many cases do not need your credit and roles are changing.

Win the battle of ideas in this new era. And to accomplish this great change, both personal and professional. To transform the best we can be, the presence of a coach again makes everything easier. Not resolved, but it helps us to find out how we can make that change.

Organizations are discovering that the traditional style of management "order, command and control" is no longer effective in today's environment, which requires quick responses, creativity, initiative, personal resilience, performance and individual effort to stay competitive. Retention is critical and supports personal development coaching, career and job satisfaction, which conserves valuable employees.

In these turbulent times, the managers coaching improves productivity, profitability, employee retention and customer loyalty. Recent research suggests that what determines productivity and loyalty of an employee is not salary, or other advantages and benefits, and the environment, but "The quality of the relationship between the employee and the manager."

Well, I hope your comments, and until our next blog!
Regards, and happy weekend !
Lorena