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Coach Mentoring + Marketing Prowess = $0 to $15K in Ten Months

May 12, 2012, by Robert Hargrove No comments yet
Mentor Relationship

It may sound like a Ripley’s Believe It Or Not headline: Private school principle in Washington leaves his school and joins the front-lines of capitalism as a business coach; starts with almost zero in the bank, and within ten months is making $15,000 a month.

A little under a year ago, Jonathan Wiggins decided to reinvent himself from an education administrator to a “business guru.” He locked himself away in his house doing a cook’s pantry inventory on all the skills needed, and thought long and hard about how to build a brand in this new arena. He looked at every website he could find on coaching, as well as every book he could lay his hands on. According to Jonathan, “That’s when I stumbled upon Robert Hargrove’s book, Masterful Coaching, which stood out from the crowd.”

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Let’s Create a Coach – Mentoring Relationship

May 10, 2012, by Robert Hargrove No comments yet
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I received a letter inquiring about coaching certification training programs. I thought my answer might be interesting for other people, so have copied it here.

Thanks Chris for your question about coaching certification programs. Let me use a metaphor to answer you. Imagine you went to a master level golf, tennis, or ski workshop for a week. How much information could you absorb in that amount of time that would result in you actually being able to play better? That’s what most coaching certification programs are like. You might consider my Masterful Coaching Coach-Mentoring program which is similar to an apprenticeship with a master level person.

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Advice to a New Coach

April 22, 2012, by Robert Hargrove No comments yet
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Yesterday, I received a letter from a young man who has a passion for helping people realize their own passions and potentials in life. He came across one of my books, and decided to write to me asking for advice on becoming a professional coach. Let me share with you my answer… Hello Ethan, that’s a real nice story about going to the library and reading my book Making Life Work and all. My other book Masterful Coaching 3rd edition would be a big help to you in getting an orientation toward coaching. I would advise, if you are a young man, to get some real business experience helping others to build a company.

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Steve Jobs Told Me to Drop Out of College

June 16, 2010, by Robert Hargrove No comments yet
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In the past, if you asked an executive, teacher, or family member whose opinion you respected for career advice, they would probably say: Definitely get into an Ivy League college, join a Fortune 500 company, and join a posh country club for social networking. In today’s high tech, global economy, where talent rules, your advisers might tell you something entirely different. Drop out of school, go start your own company…

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Master Mentor 4: Ike and Connor–Launching Ike’s Spectacular Rise

April 20, 2008, by Robert Hargrove No comments yet
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“In a life time’s association with great and good men, he is the one invisible figure to whom I owe an incalculable debt.” Dwight Eisenhower spent three years in the Panama Canal Zone being mentored by Fox Connor. As in all great mentoring relationships, there was a spirit of reciprocity between them. Ike developed rapidly as an officer and human being, learning how to think strategically about war plans and the importance of building strong relationships with allies. Connor found an enthusiastic student who not only looked up to him but had a profound sense of gratitude for the lessons he was being taught.

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Master Mentor 3: Fox Connor, the Man Who Made Ike

April 8, 2008, by Robert Hargrove No comments yet
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I picked up a book on CD called General Ike and soon found myself listening to a fascinating and intriguing tale. Central to it was an extraordinary man who was mentor to three men who had the biggest impact on winning WWII: Dwight Eisenhower, George C. Marshall, and George S. Patton. Unlike George Patton, who came from a very wealthy NY family and looked at entrance into West Point as the beginning of a life-long adventure in the military, Dwight Eisenhower came from the wrong side of the tracks in Abilene Kansas and had entered West Point mainly to get a free college education. One Sunday afternoon in 1921, Patton…

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Master Mentor 2: General Ike and Mentor Fox Connor

April 2, 2008, by Robert Hargrove No comments yet
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Shortly after my romp through Harvard Yard where I met with Tony Mayo, I took a shopping trip, not to one of our classy high-end malls in the Boston area, but to the proletarian Building 19 whose advertising moniker is Good Stuff Cheap (reading glasses, oriental carpets, designer suits, etc.) After sorting through the usual collection of mysteries and thrillers, I saw a boxed set called General Ike, The Personal Reminisces of His Son John S. D. Eisenhower for just $7.98. I purchased this and went out to the car to listen as I made my way north. Within 5 or 10 minutes I found myself totally captivated by a story being told by the narrator, one that ignited my investigation into the subject of mentoring.

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Master Mentor 1: The Beginnings of a Journey

March 25, 2008, by Robert Hargrove No comments yet
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Last week I had a meeting with Tony Mayo, professor of the Harvard Business School’s Global Leadership Initiative. It was a cold blustery New England day and I wandered through Harvard Yard in shoes that felt two sizes too small trying to find Tony’s office in the Gallatin Building. It turns out that the front entrance of the Gallatin, a Georgian brick building that reminded me of “merry ole England” was under construction, so I wandered around the building looking for a side door. I eventually happened upon the entrance of the antique brick building with a green door that looked like something right out of Charles Dickens.

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Prime Minister Lee: Leader as Coach or Minister Mentor

February 18, 2008, by Robert Hargrove No comments yet
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A few years back, I landed in Singapore on my way to give a speech on The Leader as Coach to a group of political and local business leaders. My first observation: Singapore works! The evidence was everywhere. Prime Minister Lee (now known as Minister Mentor) had a vision of Singapore being hailed as an economic miracle and unabashedly micromanaged his island to make it a reality. Lee, often referred to as a “big man on a small stage,” never intended to become a leader. He dared to see and hear the call to leadership when he returned to Singapore from Hong Kong in World War II and found the then British Colony in a state of disaster with food shortages, housing shortages, and a dearth of economic problems, including no natural resources.

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