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That’s right for the new coach, it’s a little scary. Do this. Don’t do that. But that is how to separate the coaches, new or old, from the non-coaches. That’s right: does and don’ts. To be effective, a coach, new or old – I mean new or experienced, must have the judgment to do the right thing, in the right way, at the right time.

Be Your Own Judge – Do You Really Care or Not

If you conduct yourself as a physician or a priest used to – untouchable in their integrity – then you will be a great coach, guided by your own compass to true north. Yes true north, comforted in the knowledge that it simply exists, even if you have lost your sighting of it from time to time. And then like everyone who has ever been encouraged by their hopes and dreams, you will dare to imagine that you can guide your life, and that of others, by the light of that guiding star.

For All Coaches, New and Old, Must Be Guided By Their Own Hearts

While a new coach may take some time to come to terms with it, they will eventually realize that the guiding principle, the true north if you will, is actually a force acting within their own hearts. Now it is only a matter of having the confidence to listen to the voice within.

The New Coach Faces a Crisis of Faith and Confidence

So we have seen that the new coach is challenged to do the right thing or anything or, worst of all, to cower away and do nothing. Certainly all new coaches must have inspiration and courage. Yet as experienced coaches we must take up our role and offer the guidance and encouragement, that comes from that mixture of knowledge, experience and genuine caring, that we share.

Dave Iuppa
JTS Advisors Strategy and Accountability Coach

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The idea of “Bearfooting” around Alaska is really not so different than embarking on the journey as a new coach. In fact, most successful new coaches are probably already bearfooting without knowing it. According to one of Alaska’s travel magazines, Bear Foot, “Bearfooting” is a verb that means having a good time while on the road. It can also mean a state of mind where the journey is more important than the destination.

The Snares of Becoming a New Coach

One of the biggest pitfalls of new coaches is that they want a vacation lifestyle where they don’t have to work. Becoming a new coach means lots of work; often without pay. If you’re a new coach who is counting your hours, odds are against you getting enough momentum to become successful. In fact, the greatest predictor of success is your ability to have so much fun working you don’t care what day of the week it is or how long you’ve been working.

They Key To Success

Trekking around Alaska in the summer is interesting. You lose all track of the day when the sun doesn’t start going down until well after 11pm and being up at the crack of dawn is close to 4am. Just think about how much you could get done in a day. Without limitations in the number of daylight hours we were able to fully enjoy the fun of the moment. Our eventual destination was to make it back to Anchorage in time to make our flight but it was the journey that made the trip worthwhile.
If you are looking for success in your coaching business, you need to find the same spark to get you into the game. If you’re watching the clock, you’ll miss out on the fun of your own journey even if you eventually reach your destination.

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Colette Seymann
JTS Advisors Designated Accountability Coach

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Why not practice your new coach skills on friends and family? Sure, some people say they know you too well, they’ve changed your diapers, and you’re still just a kid to some of them. I’m not saying coaching everyone in your family would be a fit or that they will pay you; but in some cases you can do a lot of good.

New Coach Guidelines For Friends and Family

While your mother-in-law might not want your coaching, there will be some people who are at least open to it. When I was a new coach I did a free session with my husband. I sat down with him and went over his goals, helping him get very clear on why they were important to achieve and what negative consequences were likely to happen if he didn’t achieve them. I was able to help him find some of the blind spots that were holding him back and develop some strategies to help him move forward. It was great for both of us. He felt listened to like never before and I got some valuable feedback. Over the years he continues to seek out council from me and I can see growth.

I also coached my cousin, who was reluctant at first. She eventually took a set of assessments and I was able to help her understand them. When she got laid off from her dream job, I used the assessments to help her see that she was a perfect match for the new job she was offered. She was really uncomfortable stepping into a completely new field, but I was able to objectively show that she did have what it would take to be successful.

The Pitfalls New Coaches Face

The reason why many people say a new coach shouldn’t coach friends and families is because they feel that new coaches don’t have the maturity to separate themselves emotionally when coaching loved ones. It can be a challenge, but a pothole in the road is only annoying if you don’t see it.

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Colette Seymann
JTS Advisors Designated Accountability Coach

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Well of course “never” is a big word. But for the new coach, “never” is a good place to start. As a coach grows in experience and also grows more than a little grey hair, well then it may be a different story. But in the beginning and for now, “never” really is a very good place to start.

Friends and Family Knew You “Back When”

The fact is – like it or not – your Aunt Josephine DID change your diapers. And your Cousin Fred DID see you cry when your vanilla ice cream fell out of your cone and onto the sidewalk. And… well you get the idea. It is very hard for the new coach to have the aura necessary to separate their professional persona from who they were “back when”.

Now that Was Just TOOO Much Information

To be an effective coach, it is critical that you can help your clients come to terms with whatever it is that is holding them back. That means that as you coach them you have to help take them wherever they need to go. It means that you may need to help them uncover their long hidden past. It means that you may need to help them confront their most painful fear. Beyond your being able to deal with what comes up, it also means that your client, your sister or your mother, must feel free to open themselves up to you – and that my just be too much to ask.

So what’s a New Coach to Do?

The obvious answer for the new coach is not to coach friends and family – at least for quite a while. But what if that is what must be done? First, act the part. Put on that professional persona – and that conservative suite or dress. Choose a professional venue. Don’t coach friends or family in familiar surroundings. Choose a neutral location, in a professional environment. And finally, set aside your relationship and do not mix metaphors or references. If you do this, you may be able to pull it off, but don’t press your luck, because you may end up with unsuccessful coaching and damaged personal relationships.

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Dave Iuppa
JTS Advisors Strategy and Accountability Coach

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When you are a very new coach, it is easy to forget that new or not, you are still the COACH. And when you are new, it is easy for people to think that they can just dismiss you because you are new or you are young. But don’t let yourself, and certainly don’t let them, forget that you are still the COACH.

Remember Your Calling Is not only about You

The importance of your Calling is not about the “YOU” part. It is about the “CALLING” part. Sell yourself short. But don’t sell your Calling short. The rhyme used to go: butcher, baker, candle stick maker. And these may have been jobs or they may have been callings. The question is: is your coaching a job or is it a calling? And by the way, what is the difference?

To Be Called, there Must Be Someone Doing the Calling.

Once again, it is not about you. New coach or not, it is about the calling. And it is about the someone doing the calling. It is not about your power. It is about the power of the person who called you. It is not about the importance of the conduit. It is about the power of the water, about the force, that flows through it. Get it? Yes? Good!

So what Does this Mean to the New Coach, and How Can Your Ego Screw It Up?

It is actually pretty simple. If you are a coach, there are powers greater than yourself involved – just as there are if you are a priest or a minister. Just as there should be greater powers acting through the butcher, baker or candlestick maker. It is not “if” there are those powers. It is if you, as a new coach, are open to have them act through you, or under the heading of screwing things up, if you are not open?

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Dave Iuppa
JTS Advisors Strategy and Accountability Coach

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The new coach is often told that accountability is about getting people to do what they know they should do, but that they don’t want to do. Well that is less than half the story. Unexpected insights can cause a client of strategy coaching or assessment to see themselves in a whole new light that brings lasting change – transformation – so to accountability coaching can bring unexpected insights, lasting change and transformation.

Acknowledging a higher Standard Is the Doorway to Transformation

Accountability coaching is about adopting and holding oneself to a much higher standard than our society generally recognizes. By acknowledging the higher standard, one accepts the possibility of actually achieving it. In parallel with not recognizing the existence of a standard of achievement that is well beyond what people seriously intend to achieve, people in our society simply do not take the achievement of greatness seriously. Let’s face it: mediocrity has become the standard of “excellence”!

Helping Clients Limit Their Commitments Is the first Step to Achievement

The new coach must understand that a half-hearted commitment to ten things is the enemy of actually committing to, and achieving one or two things. And that the magnitude of the tasks is secondary to actually selecting, committing to and finally achieving one or two tasks. It is all about a change in our state of mind, and accepting the mantel of potential greatness.

The New Coach Must Be Courageous and Brutal in Their Expectations

Particularly as a new coach, it is easy to doubt one’s self, and to question the practicality of asking a person to be more committed, to work harder and to not be satisfied with less than excellence. Fortunately, it only takes one experience of a client rising above mediocrity and achieving results greater than might have seemed realistic, to understand the greatness that each of us has inside, and the positive impact that committed individuals and groups of individuals can have upon our world!

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Dave Iuppa
JTS Advisors Strategy and Accountability Coach

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Coaches are often “solopreneurs” so it is easy for them to feel isolated and alone. This is doubly true for the new coach, since they often face isolation combined with moments of self doubt. Here are three steps to build confidence and create a breakthrough that will pay them dividends throughout their entire career.

Staying Connected Is Key to Eliminating Isolation

Pretty simple, but as we get busy, it is easy to not take the time needed to stay connected. For this reason the new coach must make an extra effort to communicate regularly with friends. Classmates from their coaches training are particularly important. They understand. And this is not just a matter of being social; it can be a matter of survival.

Coaching Is Good for the Client and Critical for the Coach

Every coach, especially new ones, should have at least one coach. A strategy coach to help them set their goals and work through blockages, and possibly an accountability coach to hold them to the task and see that they make the progress that they need to make to gain momentum and achieve their long term goals as a successful coach. Oh and by the way, coaches should pay for this coaching. Otherwise, they will feel – and be – hypocrites. If they don’t value coaching in dollars and cents, then neither will their clients.

The New Coach Must Develop and Follow a Success Ritual – Religiously

Our mental state is formed by a triad of belief, voice quality and tempo, and physiology. It may seem hard to believe but studies have shown that as much as 80% of our mental state is determined by our physiology. Physiology includes such elements as breathing, movement and gestures, posture and facial expression. Clearly, up to 80% of our mental state is within the control of our conscious mind. So the new coach can maintain a positive state of mind by following their 10 to 15 minute success ritual every morning and evening, and their 5 to 10 minute success ritual before beginning coaching.

Combining networking, coaching and a vigorous success ritual, will help ensure that the new coach escapes the trap of isolation, and succeeds in having a long and successful career.

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Dave Iuppa
JTS Advisors Strategy and Accountability Coach

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When you are just starting out as a new coach, it is easy to think that it is best to be open to every possible opportunity no matter what it involves or where it comes from. How can you pass up an opportunity? You are just starting out and, frankly, you could really use the money. So what do you do?

Capitalize on Your Experience

In a lot of ways your training in coaching, itself, prepares you well for your new career as a coach. But the experiences you have had growing up, or in your earlier career, or in working in the community, all come together to make you unique. And that makes you uniquely qualified to serve someone better than anyone else can. So as you look for coaching opportunities, look to leverage your experiences.

Follow Your Heart

On the other hand, each of us has causes that are near to our heart – perhaps an experience of a friend, the illness of a relative, or the death of a spouse. Anyone of these and many others leave us with unique profound callings to help others by our coaching. The simple truth is that when such callings combine with the ability to truly help, we are given the opportunity for perhaps the highest level of personal fulfillment possible. If this is the case for the new coach, they should give this area of specialization serious consideration.

The New Coach Should Keep Their Options Open

The bottom line for new coaches is to stay open, but not chase around in circles. Build on your past – areas of expertise, personal experiences and new opportunities – and stay open to entirely new adventures. Eventually, though, the new coach should look for their niche, that group of people with whom their message resonates and whom they are most able to help. There are two reasons for this. First, this group will give them the greatest opportunity for positive impact. Second, by clearly identifying their target group of clients, the coach will be able to connect with this group. A specific message broadcast to the masses will be lost in the noise. A specific message sent with pinpoint accuracy to a targeted group will be delivered for much less money and will be received load and clear. So as the new coach determines where they will have the greatest impact and fulfillment, they should specialize and focus for best results.

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Dave Iuppa
JTS Advisors Strategy and Accountability Coach

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For the purposes of this post, the difference between a profession and a hobby for the new coach is whether or not the coach is making a reasonable income for their efforts. If they are not, the coach either needs to make some changes – fast – or they need to accept that they have only found a very interesting hobby. Here are three things to do to move their coaching from a hobby to a profession.

First, the New Coach Must See Themself as a Professional Coach

Until the new coach actually internalizes their new role, they will not be a professional coach. To help this transition, the coach should develop a success ritual. This will not only include affirmations and visualization, but it will also include physical activities that get the heart really pumping. The reason for this is that almost 80% of our state of mind is determined by our physiology. The success ritual must become part of the coach’s daily routine. The coach must do it at the beginning, the middle and at the end of each day. An abbreviated version should also be performed before each coaching session.

Second, They Must Tell Everyone that They Are a Professional Coach

At first the new coach will feel shy about proclaiming their new role. But by doing so with family, acquaintances and perfect strangers, the coach will make a real commitment to their coaching. Also when others start to treat them as a professional coach, it will greatly increase their self image.

Finally, the New Coach Must Begin to Coach!

An excellent way for the new coach to kick off their coaching career is to give free coaching sessions. These sessions focus on establishing a relationship with the client, helping the client clarify their goals and finally establishing the value of coaching to the prospective client. They give the coach the opportunity to present a powerful value proposition to the prospect. Since they are free sessions, the coach often feels less fear of beginning coaching, and the prospect feels more willing to give coaching a try. The result is a significant boost in the self confidence of the new coach, and more clients willing to pay for coaching – and helping turn their coaching from a hobby into a real profession.

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Dave Iuppa
JTS Advisors Strategy and Accountability Coach

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