Back when I started teaching English over the internet to students in Asia, we didn’t even have a business name. It was just “Mr. Dreyer teaching English online.” So when we incorporated in 2010, my wife and I discussed several names and settled on “DreyerCoaching” for our company and website URL. Note we did not choose “Dreyer Does It For You.” The idea of “coaching” is a coach comes alongside you to help you learn to succeed on your own, instead of you always depending on someone else for guidance.
Below is an email from the Dave Ramsey organization. Even though it’s designed to address business coaching, it still speaks to what we have been doing at DreyerCoaching from the beginning, and still do.
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Every great athlete has a great coach behind them. Tom Brady had Bill Belichick. Michael Jordan had Phil Jackson. And in the movie world, who can forget Mr. Miyagi and his iconic “wax on, wax off” training in The Karate Kid?
The same is true for a whole lot of top-notch business leaders. Oprah Winfrey has worked with a personal coach for most of her legendary career.1 Apple co-founder Steve Jobs worked with leadership coach Bill Campbell.2 Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt worked with Campbell, too, and even co-authored a book about him.3
Even if you’re not running a Fortune 100 company or successful enough to give away hundreds of free cars to a live studio audience, working with a coach can be a major benefit for you and your business. But with so many types of coaching available, you might be confused about which one you need and how leadership coaching fits into the mix.
So let’s get an overview of what coaching is and what makes a great coach. (Hint: It has nothing to do with wearing a Patriots sweatshirt with the sleeves cut off.) Then we’ll look at leadership coaching and how it can benefit you and your business.
What Is Coaching?
The term coaching comes from the idea of a stagecoach, one of the earliest forms of public transportation. Beginning in the 1600s, stagecoaches were the fastest way to get from point A to point B.4
By the 1800s, the word coaching expanded beyond transportation and referred to helping people advance personally and professionally. A teacher, for example, might coach a student to pass an exam or reach a learning goal.5
Today, coaching is defined as a partnership that helps you move from where you are to where you want to be in a particular area of your life—personal or professional. Coaching helps you figure out what habits and ways of thinking you can change to overcome challenges and reach your full potential.
What Is a Coach?
Think of a coach as a thought partner trained to help you get clear on the changes you want to make and obstacles you need to overcome to grow. In areas from business and leadership to sports and entertainment, a good coach helps you unlock new perspectives, creativity and problem-solving skills, guiding you as you discover ideas from within that make you stronger, healthier and more productive.
What Makes a Great Coach?
No matter what area you want to grow in, you need a coach with a proven track record who’ll actually help you take new ground. So what should you look for in a coach? You want someone who’s a pro at applying these skills:
- Objectivity with no agenda other than making you more effective
- Connection to build deep trust
- Curiosity to ask empowering, open-ended questions
- Active listening to understand your perspective
- Emotional and intellectual awareness of your needs
- Ability to challenge you to stretch and grow
And what does a great coach not do?
- Try to solve your problems for you
- Offer advice or act as a mentor
- Set the agenda and overpower you in the process
- Pass judgment
- Operate like a consultant or business expert that tells you what to do
- Fail to hold you accountable
- Analyze behaviors (that’s a therapist’s job)
- Place limits on your growth
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So this is what DreyerCoaching is about. We’re here to help you or your child be his or her best, by building a strong language foundation. Our job is to foster curiosity, strong skills, and self-confidence. Success to us is seeing our students succeed to where they are able to make their dreams come true.
Since 2010, based in the friendly USA State of Virginia, DreyerCoaching.com has been providing customized, high-quality, real-time language instruction via the internet to a global audience in their home, school, or office. Think how comfortable, confident and successful you or your child will feel, receiving personalized guidance from college-educated teachers who are native speakers and have bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees plus decades of teaching experience. Whether you are looking for help with the ABCs or the SATs, or college admissions to conversational English to business writing, we serve all ages and levels to help our students make dreams come true. Discover the Dreyer Difference. Take the first step and visit DreyerCoaching.com, send Scott an email, or schedule a free consultation to get started.
自 2010 年以来，DreyerCoaching.com 总部位于友好的美国弗吉尼亚州，一直通过互联网向全球观众在家中、学校或办公室提供有制度的、高质量的实时语言教学。 想想您或您的孩子会感到多么自在、自信和成功，从受过大学教育的教师那里获得个别的指导，这些教师都是以英语为母语，拥有学士、硕士和博士学位，以及数十年的教学经验的教师。 无论是从 英语ABC的基础课程 或 SAT 的帮助，就读美国高中，大学入学申请，还是从会话英语到商务写作，我们都为所有年龄和水平的学生提供服务，帮助我们的学生实现梦想。 发觉 Dreyer 的不同之处。 迈出第一步，游览 DreyerCoaching.com网站，向 Scott 发送电子邮件，可开始安排一个免费咨询。
