Three Great Reasons to Be a Student Success Coach

I love being a student success coach. The honest truth is that I get tired of working with adults. They get so wound up in their own self-pity. I frankly have had enough of overweight adults telling me how much they want to lose weight, and in the same breath how they just can’t pass up that piece of chocolate cake. I want to grab them by the lapels, shake them and scream: “Get your eyes off yourself for a change!” With students, young or old, you are dealing with an open and inquisitive mind. Someone with a sense of wonder and a sense of what life can be.

Establish an Ethic of Accountability

As a student success coach, you can help your client set a higher personal standard of accountability. And this perhaps more than anything else that you can do for your client can set them ahead and apart from the vast majority in our society. Establishing a commitment to a high standard of accountability will help them to set lofty goals for themselves, help them achieve those goals again and again, and position them to be a charismatic leader.

Teach Your Student How to Balance Their Lives

A balanced life is, in many ways, a successful life. And the role of every success coach is to help their clients to appreciate a life which achieves the balanced satisfaction of the four fundamental human needs (the needs for significance, love and connection, variety, and certainty). By creating an emotional touchstone, the coach can set the student on the path of achievement and happiness that few will ever experience.

Help Your Student to Become a Student Success Coach

There are few, if any things, more intriguing than human beings, and few roles more fulfilling than that of being a success coach, so to encourage your client to become a student success coach is to open up for them the possibility of a life of satisfaction, contribution and success. And knowing that you have contributed to your student-client in this way can be a great source of personal satisfaction and pride.

Dave Iuppa
JTS Advisors Strategy and Accountability Coach

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