Edward Abel - Business Success Coach - New York - The Ten Commandments for Business Success

Q. What is Professional Business Coach?
A.Professional Business Coaching provides a progressive partnership that helps clients produce fulfilling results in their professional lives. Through the process of coaching, clients deepen their learning, improve their performance, accelerate business development and enhance their quality of life. In each meeting, the client chooses the focus of the conversation while the coach listens and contributes observations and questions that lead to solutions. This interaction creates clarity and moves the client into action. Coaching accelerates the client's progress by providing greater focus and awareness of choice. Coaching concentrates on where clients are today and what they are willing to do to get where the want to be tomorrow.

Q. What's the difference between Professional Coaching and Sports Coaching?
A. The Sports Coach comes to each meeting with a set agenda or goal. The Sports Coach wants his/her goals to become the client's goals. Those goals are usually competitive and involve concepts of "client wins/opponent loses." Opposite from this, the Professional Business Coach comes to each meeting with no personal goal or agenda for his/her client. The Professional Business Coach's only goal is to honor the client's goals. Each meeting focuses on what the client deems important.

Q. How did the Service of Professional Business Coaching develop?
A. The profession of coaching for non-athletes began in the late 1980's. The first coaches worked almost exclusively with top executives in medium and large businesses. These executives found that having an independent person to interact with on a regular basis was extremely valuable. Key figures in the profession recognized that the value of having a coach could be offered to a much wider audience if more skilled coaches were available. Coach training programs and schools for coaches have been established and coaching is becoming increasingly well known.

Q. How long does it take to achieve results?
A. When we work together I will ask you for a three-month commitment to start. After that time you choose how long we stay in the relationship. Some people are so excited with the results they achieve that they want to continue on. Some people choose coaching for life, others achieve independence to move on to the next stage of peer support --this is offered in The Mastermind Business Alliance Group (The MBA-Group.com).

If you are considering working with a Business Success Coach, consider what Ed Abel can do for you:

1. Keeps you focused on your abilities and talents. Doing everything gets you nothing. You went into business to use your "superstar" abilities and talents, not to do everything from invoicing clients to writing your own ads. Your goal is to become a recognized expert--the "superstar" in your field. But you can't be an expert in everything. Can you imagine a professional athlete fully developing his or her talent by playing more than one position? A coach keeps you focused on your "superstar" abilities.

2. Points you in the right direction. A coach gives you honest feedback and creates a plan of action or a program to follow that will give you a competitive edge. A coach can pinpoint where you need to make adjustments, so you keep your eye on the ball and hit home runs.

3. Holds your feet to the fire. A coach wants you to reach peak performance. Lack of direction, procrastination, distractions, and a host of other maladies stop you from reaching your full potential. Guess what? A coach will hold you accountable. When you want to play in the big leagues, you have to commit to the program. The coach is there to hold your feet to the fire--to make sure you make good on your commitment.

4. Cultivates your talent. Most entrepreneurs and small business owners don't recognize their "superstar" talents and abilities because they come naturally, or they've mastered their skills through years of practice. When things come naturally, it's easy to assume everyone can do what you do. That's when a coach pays off. The coach recognizes your inner strengths and molds you into a master performer--or superstar. When you outclass the rest, you attract the best. Instead of trolling for clients--clients are attracted to you.

5. Is invested in your success. Most important, your coach is your personal cheerleader. The best coach for you is excited about you, your talents, and your business. Your coach pushes you to play like a champion so you become the champion of your industry. Every winning athlete has a coach. When you want to join the club of superstar business owners, you should have one too.

Finally, the number one reason to hire a coach is because you want to.