First off I wouldn’t say that the entrepreneurial spirit is only about working for yourself to make lots of money. Oh no, I’d say it’s more about having an open mind with an attitude of care and a hunger for knowledge as you go about your daily life as an employee or self employed business owner. The most important point I want to raise here is that we each need to be clear in our mind that our contribution to the community even further along to the world centre of population is that we come from a place of truth and enjoyment as we go about our daily routines. By that I mean we care what we do and get pleasure from providing what we do best.

Making A Positive Impact with the 3 ‘P’ formula

Coaches who want to seriously succeed in their niche market can make a positive impact with their clients by putting into place a conscious system to; progress, protect and populate their practice. Simply put this means coaching with a client using results focused models that elicit on-going and fast progress, also creating a document structure of coaching forms and scripts from suspect, initial prospect contact through to client acquisition and forwards onto coaching maintenance programs, a protection structure for both you and your clients safeguard and your business growth i.e. to populate your practice.

The Entrepreneurial Difference Demonstrated

Life for many can result in what they term as failure, even entrepreneurs suffer from a feeling of failure, in actual fact it’s inevitable to have such feelings.

The only question I believe that needs to be asked here is whether or not entrepreneurs can move fast enough to not allow any negativity that pops up periodically into their life? You know what I mean – when your core experiences the feelings of hurt caused by others not paying you enough attention or showing their disapproval of what you do, especially if you don’t have a JOB or a boss, or perhaps you’ve gone through losing money from failed investments, or messed up in the relationships area including going through separation and/or a divorce, having health problems, loss through bereavement and so on.

Compelling Lifestyle

Coaching is only part of what makes an entrepreneur. I’d like to include the model of author, speaker and trainer to the mix as a model for the journey to reach the top of the pile.

There are many ‘proven step-by-step success systems’ claiming to show you how to become a top earner and transform you into an elegant and competent entrepreneur. It is my belief that anyone who has a profound ambition to succeed and earn a 6 or 7 income figure is capable to be a competent and rich entrepreneur, providing of course that they deploy a team to assist them on their entrepreneurial travels.

In the first place it takes endurance to raise financial levels with a concise, clear no distraction attitude, in other words a focused mind-set filled to bursting with PMA positive mental attitude to avoid and if necessary to deal with any sabotaging thoughts that show up uninvited. Oh, and remember the goal posts keep moving so be aware that you’ll need an endless supply of courage, tenacity and strength to keep going, the hard core inner strength variety. Then when those components are in synergy with each other dedicated management between self and the team comes into play. In my estimation and many top income earners whom I’ve discussed this topic with we all agree that a very high level strength of character is needed at all times to pull off a triumphant outcome.

Entrepreneurship is the backbone of coaching and as coaches we can set an example to live our lives on purpose by stretching the comfort zone, day by day and then we get what we truly deserve.

PaTrisha-Anne Todd, LCSi, Author, Speaker, Entrepreneur...
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Question - “ Sometimes my thoughts are all over the place that I just can’t concentrate on what I need to do next to get more clients. I’m really scared my clients will dry up and then I’ll have to go back to working for a boss!”

As the IIC’s Head of Membership my remit is to assist in providing the services that members want and that will encourage new members to join. A crucial aspect of this is in publicising the existence of services and making it easy for members to use them.

For the IIC to be successful in giving good value in terms of the services it provides, participation by members is vital. My aim is to encourage interaction and enable members to take full advantage of what is on offer.

This month I am highlighting the role of the IIC in raising credibility and standards among the coaching profession.

International community

The IIC membership spans over 70 countries and negotiates at national level in moving towards the creation of a professional, self-regulated industry that is recognised globally. It provides a structure for accountability and standards and a platform for members to voice their views about coaching as a profession.

This gives coaches an incredibly high level of credibility when interacting with the non-coaching community, being able to demonstrate pro-activity in voluntarily providing accountability and high professional standards.

Standards and ethics

The IIC has a comprehensive ethical foundation which embraces these core values as the basis for professional standards;

1. Integrity
   
2. Honesty
   
3. Transparency
   
4. Excellence
   
5. Care
   
6. Professionalism
   
7. Accountability

These cover the following areas of responsibility;

1. Client Care
   
2. Personal Professional conduct
   
3. Professional Relationships

For full details of these three areas go to the website at
http://internationalinstituteofcoaching.org/standards_and_ethics.php.

Being able to operate under the standards and ethics as laid down by the IIC is a huge benefit to members as it gives them credibility and instils a high level of confidence in prospective clients.

Complaints Procedure

To reinforce this, the IIC has a comprehensive complaints procedure (see the website at
http://internationalinstituteofcoaching.org/complaints_procedure.php) designed to enable IIC members or a member of the public to raise a grievance against an IIC member. It embodies a process that takes the complaint through from notification to enforceable outcome.

Its existence is a further demonstration that the IIC is committed to upholding the highest standards for the coaching profession and its members benefit accordingly.