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		<title>So what is a coach ?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2008 03:38:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the end of each year,  I look back. Again this year, I found myself explaining, often, what a coach is. Here is one way of looking at it. A Coach Is . . . · Your own personal trainer, enabling you to achieve your goals · Your champion during a turnaround. · Your trainer [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>At the end of each year,  I look back. Again this year, I found myself explaining, often, what a coach is. Here is one way of looking at it.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36pt;text-indent:-18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family:Symbol;" lang="EN-GB"><span>·<span style="font-family:&quot;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-GB">Your champion during a turnaround. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36pt;text-indent:-18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family:Symbol;" lang="EN-GB"><span>·<span style="font-family:&quot;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-GB">Your trainer of communication and life skills. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36pt;text-indent:-18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family:Symbol;" lang="EN-GB"><span>·<span style="font-family:&quot;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-GB">Your sounding board when making choices. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36pt;text-indent:-18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family:Symbol;" lang="EN-GB"><span>·<span style="font-family:&quot;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-GB">Your unconditional support when you take a hit. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36pt;text-indent:-18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family:Symbol;" lang="EN-GB"><span>·<span style="font-family:&quot;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-GB">Your wake up call if you don&#8217;t hear your own. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36pt;text-indent:-18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family:Symbol;" lang="EN-GB"><span>·<span style="font-family:&quot;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-GB">And most importantly, the professional coach is your partner in helping you have all of what matters most to you. </span></p>
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		<title>Tiger&#039;s lesson</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2007 14:47:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last winter Tiger changed his coach. Does Tiger Woods still needs a coach? … euh well, YES! … Somebody he trusts must look at his swing, his game. As an entrepreneur, who looks at how you plan, you organize, you manage, you control, you delegate etc ? Tiger decided he needed to change his swing, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Last winter Tiger changed his coach.</p>
<p>Does Tiger Woods still needs a coach? … euh well, YES! …</p>
<p>Somebody he trusts must look at his swing, his game.<br />
<strong>As an entrepreneur, who looks at how you plan, you organize, you manage, you control, you delegate etc ?</strong></p>
<p>Tiger decided he needed to change his swing,  SERIOUSLY DECIDED… not the coach, Tiger himself. The basic premise in coaching. The customer WANTS to change. From there, it becomes a matter of opening and patience. Being ready to hear what you don&#8217;t want to hear and see what you don&#8217;t want to see. To change the way you do things to change the result.</p>
<p>Even while being champion, there can be things that annoys us. In the case of Tiger, it was his back swing. Why the change of coach then? For a change of perspective.</p>
<p>What follows is action. Not just a discussion and some advice.  Action and practice. Correct and continue, again and again.</p>
<p>After a &#8220;nothing seems to work anymore&#8221; moment, his swing returned, better than before, on the road to a stellar year.</p>
<p>In business coaching, sometimes the same thing happens. Specially when you try to do the shift from entrepreneur to manager&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>The &#8220;nothing seems to work anymore&#8221; moment</strong>… are you ready to pay that price?</p>
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