God finally i find this bloody thing working, have tried to blog 3 times over the holidays and each time after typing the feckin thing, i find that it won't publish, i was seriously thinking of sending them a right stinking letter.
Today i heard a wonderful quote from a guy called Gibson, he said
"the future has already arrived, it's just not very well distributed yet.
It's a silly thing, but why do we keep looking for the "ultimate" idea all the time, when there are fantastic ideas in what we already have, and there are thousands of people who have never heard of the most basic coaching ideas, surely it would make more sense to spread these "ideas" and get well paid for it rather than killing ourselves trying to think of amazing and unique ways to improve the process.
I have had enough sales meeting so far this year to realise that the word "coaching" had now become de rigeur throughout the corporate world, this however does not mean that most of them have a clue as to what "coaching" actually is, i think most of them want to continue the command and control method of preaching, teaching or telling employees what to do, i have heard precious little about "developing potential" " getting committment" or "drawing the best out of people"
This new year, 2007, is the most wonderful opportunity for people in the coaching business, we have the opportunity to help some individuls and companies put real "coaching cultures" in place in their organisations, thier is certainly a hunger and acceptance of the "concept" of coaching now, it's up to us coaches to make sure that real coaching occurs in these companies, if those of us who try to do it right, who really care about what we do and how we do it, if we don;t fill this vacuum, then there is no doubt someone will fly in from the UK, sell thier concept to the corporates, do the work and fly off again with the money.
so if we know how it's done, if we care about doing it, if we BELIEVE in it, then this year we MUST get out there and sell it, we must get in around the business world, who now know two things.
!. There is a thing called coaching
2. They hear very good things about it, so maybe it works.
it's up to us to ride this wave, coaching has been around long enough now to have passed the "fad" stage, and it seems it's going to be around a lot longer, there's a huge appetite out there now waiting to be satisfied.
Now is the time!
