Life Coaching: a way of looking at training.

At work, organisations would employ productivity analysts' to analyse the work done and then implement new practises to gain better productivity by the workers. This can take the form of redesigning the system and bringing new technology into the work place to speed up procedures, or retraining the staff to become better at their duties. Through out this a person or team of people come and coach the management and staff to become better at what they do.   Likewise, in the sporting profession we can list all the ways analysis' are utilised to improve the techniques, and game plans of the players to become the best at what they do. Analysts employ computer motion capturing to help adjust the minute movements of the player to increase performance. Likewise professional bike riders are placed in an air tunnel on their bikes to analyse the riding position, thus increasing performance. The smallest minutia of a player's actions are examined and honed to be as perfect as possible to increase performance.   Organisations spend loads of money to increase the productivity in their workers and performance in their sporting professionals, yet we spend nothing on our personal life to become better at being parents, partners, or carers. I know there are TV shows that do this on a small scale with a sample of people and then air it on TV as entertainment. Though I would like to have them show some of the skills they teach these participants on TV so that the wider community may also learn to live a happier life. On these self-help shows only a fraction is shown on how people can help them-selves, which is a shame.   I know the term "Life Coach" has a funny Americanised, a new age California type feel about it, which does not have a palatable feel about the terminology for some people. But when a person has not got the knowledge or skill to improve their life, the most common outcome which follows is depression. For people to become happier in their life at times only needs a small change in their activities, while others may need many small changes to reach a happier life style. Yet some people shun and this idea that help is not needed because "this is how it has always been and I'm ok Jack", but actively participate in improving their performance on the work site or golf course through teachers of one sort or another.   In this age of modernity, with advanced civilisation, and with our social wisdom, we no longer live in a home with three generations under the same roof. Thus the way things are instead is that both parents work while the child is at home alone, looking after them-self doing what they want till the parents comes home from work. Communication in the family is almost nonexistent because at best these are people sharing the same address. So the parents expect the schools to teach the children the values and skills that have always been in the hands of the family. The families that are lucky enough to have a third generation in the house to help with the upbringing of the children, the family values will be passed on through modelling. The best song that illustrates how children learn is "Cats in the Cradle". Thus if you wish to see how your children will grow up, just look at your own behaviour and you will see your children, and if you are not around, look at the people that are bring your child up. I read in a book about child rearing that many people spend about 30 years recovering from what happened to them in the first 5 years of their life. This is where a Life Coach comes in to help the person learning all the skill that they missed out on as a child.   In conclusion, professionals will hone all the small minutia of their actions to become the best at their game and to be number one so they can bring in the big dollars, yet may live an unhappy life because they do not employ the same professionalism to their privet life. So please refer to the previous posting to read about how important happiness is in your life.