Difference Between Corporate and Executive Life Coaching

When you hear the term “life coach”, you may automatically assume that their purpose is to help guide you through life by providing a healthy support system regarding where you are in the current phase of your personal life. Essentially, when you are too deeply involved in a situation to assess it clearly, I help you fill in the blanks.

Well did you know that life coaching can also help your professional life?  What’s unique about Gluck Solutions is that I specialize in both Executive and Corporate Life Coaching. Though similar in many ways, there are some differences. Allow me to explain.

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Gimmick Life Coaches

Life coach” is such a vague term, that you usually see it tacked on to every job title there is. “Fashion designer & Life-Coach,” “Chessmaster & Life Coach” — it seems like anyone who’s half gregarious will call themselves a life coach these days.

In fact, if you read the article linked below, you’ll find that there’s a “photographer & life coach” in Europe named Bas Brummans who takes his clients wine tasting in France and touring in the Netherlands because, according to him, “travel is a powerful catalyst for new awareness.” The cost? $5000.

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A Life Coach is the Accountant of Your Life

A life coach will help you choose the best directionWhen you go to an accountant, you make sure all of your financial cylinders are firing. The best thing about an accountant is that he/she talks in concepts that ensure an optimal situation: taxation (or financial liability for services received), cost of investment, return on investment, risk and so on.

All of these concepts are not just limited to personal finance— these are life terms. They’re the concepts that I use (albeit with a bit less jargon) to help people who find themselves in need of life coaching.

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Why Life Coaching Helps

life coaching sign postIt is inevitable that life will shoot us the occasional curve balls, and when life does present us with a series of unfortunate events, it can leave one feeling paralyzed and like there is nowhere to turn. Even the simplest of complications can appear like insurmountable obstacles, when coupled with the expected stress of every day life.

So what do you do? How do you cope?  How can you make lemons into lemonade, when you don’t even know how to assemble the juicer?

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Life Coaching and Grief

a grieving manIt was a warm Los Angeles evening when 26 year old actress, Lea Michele, was enjoying her summer break from her grueling Glee work schedule, having a girls night in with her closest of confidants.  After years of pounding the pavement on Broadway, it seemed like years of hard work and sacrifice were finally panning out for the young actress; she was the lead on an Emmy award winning show, adored by fans, or ‘Gleeks’, across the country, and revered as one of the most talented performers to date, her powerful pipes ranking her with the likes of Celine Dion or Barbara Streisand.

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