You may be under the impression that there is not a lot in common between business people and students. So, compare a 10-year-old dyslexic student who has specific failing points in school to a company about to close. One of the first things they have in common is that they feel blocked in and the world is telling them everything they are doing wrong. They both have lousy reports, feel like they are running out of time and they appear to be putting in huge amounts of effort for very little results.Now compare a 13-year-old student enjoying new life experiences and demands to a business also having a sudden growth spurt. The teenager is suddenly part of a much bigger organization of sorts. They have many skills to learn and new teachers to understand. We can easily compare this to a business that has abruptly grown with new employees, new products, new research and a lot more people to manage.Also compare a 15-year-old exam student who has done great and is heading for the final stages of school to a multi million dollar project that needs a very targeted strategy. You are swiftly deciding what skills you need for your career, which subjects you are going to take forward and how you are going to get there. With a multi million dollar project you are effectively making all of the same decisions.You could start to compare a 17-year-old exam student's overwhelming workload and study schedule to a company that dramatically finds itself in the media spotlight in a positive manner. Both can quite easily start to hyper ventilate and panic. I have worked with companies whose telephone lines melted down under the strain and staff were not able to get an available line out of their offices for over a week.At this stage I wish to point out why life coaching is a waste of time. Life coaching does not work, cram schools are a waste of money and 99% of private tuition is a very short term solution. Continuity is vital to sustainability and you must pick up the juggling balls and be prepared to help directly long term when needed, not just at the start.
I profile the elements that matter and create methods around them. Like how people tick, what they need now and how they need it. But what is more vital is the strategy that goes with it. I work with a cross section of people aged from 18 month old toddlers to 72 year olds. They are from hundreds of different backgrounds worldwide, stages in life and business varieties.I am strange in that I take on clients for life. It is very rewarding to start working with people when they are 10 and now I am introducing them to their first real world business internships at 16. The stories are no less dramatic in the business world. When I have gone in to restructure companies that were about to close the doors I still support their growth several years later. They got out of the red but went through growing pains and I am still needed as a safety net.Many people say things like "with success comes new challenges and with age comes new issues" but life coaching, cram schools and most private tuition is just short term crisis management that never sticks around long enough to help long term.Much of my success is down to developing methods that allow me to profile people. Take the 5-year-old with language development issues, the 15-year-old with asperger's syndrome and the 45-year-old's business and family issues. In all of these types of cases I get sonic speed results because I focus on what they need right there and then. There's a development path so it is a combination of understanding timescales and Purple Success methods.Here is a limitation that I have found with traditional education system teachers around the world. All of my team have been on specific career paths so they can actually write a letter of introduction for a job or a course for a student but most teachers have never done this and most career guidance teachers do not actually have business careers. Also, schools do not teach goals and goal setting and you are not going anywhere unless you have a goal to achieve. The real golden nugget is to continually set new goals.
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