Coaching Tools to help Coaches Get More Coaching Clients. Suzan Schmitt: The Coach Marketer

Coaching Tools: Get a Mentor

May 27, 2009

Find a Person Who Has Done What You Want to Do and Follow Them
Years ago people who wanted to learn any skill or trade would follow a person that had spent years perfecting their practice of that skill by becoming an apprentice. An apprentice watches a master as they perform their art taking advice from that master and closely following their instruction.
Apprentices do this because they have respect for the time the master has invested in perfecting their skill and the apprentices realizes that to attain that level of skill they too will have to invest time and effort. 

Does that mean that all the work done before reaching the level of mastery are without value? No, absolutely not. They have a great deal of value and the apprentice is paid according to the level of skill he or she has achieved. 

The same is true of coaching! At first, you may not feel comfortable charging hundreds of dollars per session for your coaching. You may not even feel comfortable charging at all and that is fine.
Just start coaching and you will soon

feel comfortable with charging and when you have a full schedule of coaching clients you will feel comfortable raising your fees for new clients. To make sure you get coaching client signed up when they come in for an introductory coaching session get my home study course "No Sales Required Client Attraction".

Just like the apprentice you should find a "master" who has what you want and follow their instruction. I suggest you find a teaching who can teach you what you want to know and invest in your business growth by learning from someone who has a successful coaching business.
You don't need to learn more about coaching you need to learn how to have a successful coaching business. 

By following a "master" you will shorten your learning curve and avoid many pitfalls and mistakes. Investing a relatively small amount in a mentor will save you a lot of time and money as you build your coaching business.

Keep a Beginner's Attitude
Make sure you understand that you are new at this and inherent in learning is making mistakes. You will not do everything perfectly and you will have some disappointments and failures along the way. Your job is to learn from each of your wins and losses.

Listen to your mentor and ask for their help. Americans tend to associate needing help from others with weakness and stupidity. Smart people have the strength to admit they don't know everything and ask for help! I have a very inexpensive mentoring program "Zee Inner Circle".

Don't waste hours and money trying to do

something you don't know how to do or recreating the wheel just to save a few bucks!

Last, you must take action quickly. The coaching business is a business and it is competitive so you have to take action before the competition does. 

Don't wait around until you feel like you are read because you may never feel ready. Sometimes you just have to fake it until you make it or act as if you already have made it.

If you enjoyed this article then you will want to read "Mentors are Worth the Investment".

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