For Speakers and Coaches

As I travel from city to city speaking to various audiences I am often approached after my speeches by people from the audience who are interested in learning how to enter the speaking or coaching business. For the dedicated individual either profession, or both, can be very rewarding.

There is quite a difference between speaking and coaching. But if you are an expert at what you do you can share your expertise either to the masses as a speaker or individually as a coach. The corporate world has hired speakers who are expert in their respective fields to educate numerous employees at a time in a seminar environment. It is a multibillion dollar industry.

During the past two decades coaching has become a modern method of specialized training and accountability on a one to one basis. Both corporations and individuals have found that gleaning from an expert eliminates years worth of errors and thousands of dollars worth of wasted expense. Although it is more economical to hire an expert to train many employees at a time there are companies that have budgets for coaches to work directly with key employees.

Speakers and coaches have enjoyed the varying satisfactions that each profession provides. There is a certain satisfaction one gets from delivering a dynamic speech from the platform while there is an entirely different satisfaction from working with individuals one to one, helping them personally achieve their goals.

If you want to learn about the speaking profession from top to bottom and get specific guidance as to how to build your own highly profitable speaker's practice, then check out the knowledge base I created with Bill Brooks and Tom Antion. It is called The Professional Speaker System and it has, on CDs and DVDs, the most comprehensive information about making it in this business that can be found anywhere. The website is: http://www.professionalspeaker.com

For serious emerging speakers I would recommend a speakers coach, Patricia Fripp from San Francisco. She can help a speaker shave months or years off of the pitfalls of going it alone. Her website is http://fripp.com/speakingschool.html

For those that would desire to enter the coaching business, I would recommend Excellence Quest, out of Las Vegas. They are experts in training sales people on how to become professional sales coaches. The Sales Coaching opportunity is explained in detail at http://www.becomeasalescoach.com/index_files/Tour036JC.htm.

Whether it’s speaking or coaching you can find a very rewarding future in the professional world.