I’m A Life Coach, This Is What I Do!

Posted on 7 March 2007

I had a call a few weeks ago from a guy that was looking to hire a personal coach to help him over some difficulties with his life. He seemed a really nice and genuine guy but was obviously in a state of overwhelm which is not uncommon in these situations. He had to go out of town for a week and we decided to chat more on his return.

The following week I called him as agreed and he was too busy to talk as he was dealing with the backlog of work that had built up during his trip. So he said he’d follow up later in the week. There is a fine line between hassling people so that they get annoyed with you and want you to leave them alone and leaving them completely alone and looking like you don’t care. As somebody that worked in sales for so long I know this to be true and even with so many years experience I still have difficult striking a balance. I also know that until a client says no to me then I have an element of duty to keep following up because I have no idea what is happening in their personal life, they may not be reading e-mails (or even receiving them), retrieving voice mails or having messages passed on to them. If I have confidence that I can help people (which I do) then I am doing them a disservice by giving up on trying to speak to them before I know (if this is the case) that they do not wish to proceed.

So when I hadn’t heard for a week I called him again. When I finally got to speak to him and he sounded even more troubled than before and told me that he was under too much pressure to deal with a coach at this stage. Now I get this, I really do and he sounds like a really genuine guy, but and it’s a big but, this is what I do! Nobody calls a coach because there life is just perfect and it couldn’t possibly be better, they call because they feel they need a helping hand. 

I hope he does call me back because I can help of that I have no doubt but my gut instinct tells me he wont. Will I call him again if I don’t hear anything? Probably, because I haven’t heard that definitive no yet and at the very least I would like to put him in contact with people that I have coached that were in a similar situation and came through it with flying colors.

 

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