This week we ask Dale Curd three questions from our viewers about coaching.
How are Coaching and Mentoring Different?
“Coaching and mentoring are both different and the same. Specifically, an executive coach is often someone who has specific training in the areas of human development and performance training and they excel at helping you achieve your goals through encouragement and by surfacing the limiting beliefs and behaviours which are handcuffing or sabotaging your performance. A mentor is someone who likely has a tremendous depth of experience in your specialized career path and based on their success, reputation, conduct, and personality they are someone you desire to model yourself on. A great mentor helps you to shape yourself, your behaviour, and your network to smooth out and amplify your career journey.”
Do coaches specialize?
“Yes. There are life coaches for specific life goals, executive coaches for career optimization, performance coaches for technical skill development, just to name a few. Coaching is becoming increasingly more specialized in response to a growing client market who are more sophisticated, more self aware, and hungry to learn and grow.”
How long is a typical coaching engagement?
“Well, this depends on whether what you’re bringing to the coach is an acute symptom like “How Do I Master Public Speaking,” that you want help with or, more of a generalized dissatisfaction or fogginess in your life like “My Life Has No Direction.” On specific issues I like to help my clients within a month or two, while the more general concerns can take up to six months to put in place an everlasting, sustainable direction or approach.”
Dale Curd is the founder of The Mens’ List and a performance coach with twenty years of experience who works with clients in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. Interested in learning more about Dale or working with him? Visit dalecurd.com
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