6 Skills I look for in a Business Coach.

1. I prefer they are a few years ahead of me in business. Not always calendar years, but where I forecast being in two years.

2. They have a strong following. Only because it shows, Business coach's opinions are respected.

3. Experience = education is fine, but the experience is boss. What kind of experience?

4. Communication = How often and by what means.

5. Cost $

6. Similar Value, or at least can respect mine.

Hi, it's Wendy, she's a goal setter, and I just wanted to share with you today that I have been looking for a new business coach for myself because I believe although I am a coach, I still need a coach to help me grow. I first hired my first coach in 2008 well let me tell you things were different I didn't go online to find my coach I knew somebody that was a coach that was reputable and I mean she lived for I mean within my state before away you know what I mean but we had to physically drive and meet up once or twice a month but you know that's how you found a coach back then so things have changed a lot and I didn't even think about how that so much when I I started offering coaching on line a little bit and so when I went to look for a coach then all of a sudden I went Oh well this is more difficult than I would have thought so I had to form some guidelines as to what was important to me in a coach Anna thought share those with you which may be good for me and maybe bad because it may weed me out but even if it does let's find you the culture that's for you OK these are the things that I listed that are important to me and maybe they'll be important too maybe they won't maybe you'll say hey Wendy that that's a value that doesn't matter to me and or maybe that's not something that I even care about or you might think of something and be like hey she didn't think of this and you could be right not forgot about that anyways one of the things I look for in a coach OK the one of the first things is I want somebody that's ahead of me in this game and business in general but not that so far ahead of me that I can't fathom where they're at or where they're coming from like I think they might have forgot what it was like to be me you know I mean it's so long ago there's a couple of reasons I don't hire those people I just named a couple of them another one is usually those people are very pricey so I don't feel like at this time that I can do very crazy you know what I mean I can't maybe spend like $50,000 on a coach or something we can do that so I mean I'm not willing to do that so anyways so that's one thing I do is I look for somebody that's a little bit ahead of me in the game but not extremely maybe a few years ahead of me but not 25 years ahead of me the other thing I like to look for someone that kind of has a strong following why would following even matter the only reason it matters to me when I'm looking for a coach is that says there are a lot of people who respect this person's opinion that's the only reason that I would care if they had a following but I do care because of that I care what kind of experience they have I say this how they ever run a business was what was it was it a popsicle stand or was it you know what I mean or was it a big Corporation that I even can't even you know understand all the workings in myself or is it a Corporation that's a Corporation like the size of mine or is it a bigger you know those things that matters to me where she coming from he or she where are they coming from where is their growth coming from I do you know I mean I don't really care if they have a college degree in the field I don't care experience means more to me than that although you know I do have a college degree but I honest to goodness think that my experience is far outweighs my college degrees so there's that another thing that's.