We know from our previous two posts that a good coach helps you discover, grow and focus your natural talents (H/t Obi Wan). A good coach is also a powerful sounding board for helping you assess where you are and how you will achieve your goals (H/t Angelo Dundee).

Put another way, a coach brings out the best in you in different ways–partly internal and partly external.

The internal includes increasing your self-awareness, appreciating your unique “super powers” and developing your innate talents. The external includes turning that heightened self-awareness and raw talent into consistent superior results and improved outcomes.

Simple, yet powerful and life-changing.

Today, we’ll connect these two benefits with expert insight into enlisting the power of a good coach.

Mastering Your Light Saber, Your Very Own Cornerman and Experts Weight-In
I love experts and visionaries. People discontent with the status quo. Big ideas and big thinkers.

In most cases, their subject expertise doesn’t even matter–from the predatory hunting habits of the Siberian Tiger to modern developments in neuroscience to the fact that San Quentin Prison has its own tech incubator.

Expertise or a BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goal)? I’m in. Tell me more.

In that vein, here are a few articles I’ve collected over the years that give additional insight into the benefits of utilizing a business, career or life coach to help you solve your most challenging problems and achieve your desired goals.

Our opportunities to learn and improve our lives and the lives of those we love using our own natural talents are everywhere if we pay attention.

Sometimes we just need a little help to get there.

Forbes: You Don’t Have To Go It Alone: The Benefits of a Business Coach
Key Highlight: “Dollar for dollar, I don’t know if there is a better investment [coaching] entrepreneurs can make.”

Harvard Business Review: Millenials Want to Be Coached at Work
Key Highlight: “Coaching is unlocking a person’s potential to maximize their own performance. It is helping them to learn, rather than teaching them.”

Gallup: When Americans Use Their Strengths More, They Stress Less
Key Highlight: Adults who use their strengths 10 or more hours a day are 22% more likely to say they have enough energy to get things done than those who use their strengths for three hours or less.

CNN: Does Your Life Need a Coach?
Key Highlight: “Often, people need someone to help them take the dreams they have in their head–the visions of what they want to do next with their lives–and do the work to make them a reality.”

Secrets to Success: Would You Benefit From a Business Coach?
Key Highlight: “Without our coach, our company would have been blind to some of these opportunities, and you cannot put a price on that.”

If you read something today at StrengthsLauncher that’s given you insight or changed your perspective, please let us know at hello@strengthslauncher.com! We’d love to hear from you!

Cheers,

DW