the guy with the whistle calls the shots...

A coaching collaboration is a partnership with overtones of dictatorship. One partner, the coach, has to be in charge for it to work. Yet the other partner, the player, or client, has to be confident enough to speak up when collaboration threatens to become domination.

Unlike the sports coach, the performance coach is there to make suggestions, to provide guidance and to help you become a more skilled professional - their power is not absolute.

There's also a certain element of cheerleading in performance coaching. Your coach will point out mistakes and make suggestions for fixing them, that's their job. But the coach will also point out when you've done something well, when you've made improvement, when you've mastered a new skill. That's part of the job, too.

A good definition of the performance coach:
Part Mom, part dictator, part spouse - all focused on you and your success.

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when the project needs something but you don't know what...

You've written a book, a story, an article, a report. It's a pretty darn good one, too, but there's something missing.

You're working on a project and it's just not coming together. You're stuck, and you need inspiration.

You've finished your book and sent it off for a critique, which turned up many more problems than you had anticipated.

You've got a lot of bad writing habits and you need help trying to unlearn them and learning better ones.

That plot is a little slow, that dialog doesn't sing, there's too much telling and not enough showing - how do you fix it?

You need a coach when you have a performance problem that you can't fix on your own. We'd love to work with you. email...