Sometimes I feel embarrassed when someone asks me what I do.
You see, "Our industry has been done over by the big franchises,"
who would sell a business coaching franchise to anyone with a pulse,
And the leaders of those franchises get to be lauded as successes,
When at best, they are heartless opportunists and rogues.
I say this from inside my industry, where I have been privy to some very bad plays that have downgraded our industry's credibility.
Tonight, after leading a facilitation event, someone I've been talking to for the last few months,
stood up and shared how they'd had decided to hire a business coach to help them have the best year ever of their life,
And discovered they'd been sold a lemon by a salesperson,
They were treated badly and unprofessionally by their delegated coach,
They were refused any sort of refund by the franchise owner, who said during negotiation that:
"This contract will stand up in any court in the land" (Eeeuch!)
The Franchise owner ceded that my colleague had been given a raw deal and offered as compensation:
Two free months of coaching.......(give me a break! After all this - who would want that?)
This is the stuff that really makes me sick.
And after describing her bad experiences with a coach, she went on to say:
(paraphrased)
"Mikes the real deal - he asks the right questions,
I've gotten so much out of his work with me"
There is a God - life makes sense - I forgive all the frauds, shysters and hucksters,
for what they have done, because real and good work always shines through.
Forgive them o Lord, for they know not what they have done!
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