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 Mental Coaching: Mental Coaches Are Most Widely Associated With Professional Sports Mental Coaching: Mental Coaches Are Most Widely Associated With Professional Sports

Today's most vocal business leaders are emphasizing that "the world is flat," that labor moves freely, and that the lowest price, whether it's from Atlanta or Argentina, always wins. Million dollar orders can be placed online without so much as speaking to a live person, and the "faces" of corporate communications are increasingly those of models or paid spokespersons rather than real business leaders.

So in a world in which you will receive hundreds of job applications from all around the world for every publicly announced opening, how relevant are people skills? Very so. People still design products, build websites, create advertisements, and communicate with each other to coordinate these efforts.

And that one needs a proper environment in which to perform his or her job, not "even if" but "especially if" that person was born and raised somewhere else. Immigrants and guest workers are as much members of the corporate world as anyone else, but their special and hardships need close attention to bring out the most in them, and that means mental coaching. Mental coaching is an excellent way of bringing someone from a different culture into the team 100%, and it is one of the most important functions of human resource management nowadays.

Mental coaches are most widely associated with professional sports. Dr. John F. Murray developed the Mental Performance Index to analyze American football and also helped Vincent Spadea overcome one of the longest losing streaks in pro tennis history. However, mental coaching is just as helpful for anyone on any rung of the corporate ladder, from the CEO to the lowest salesman or engineer.

Hiring and training employees is a costly endeavor, so any steps that can be taken to improve employee work product is essential. In today's world, many companies are finding that Mental coaches are well worth the investment. They have proven effective in many fields other than business. So why not maximize your investment in your company's personnel and let your Human Resources department try this great resource.

While the world may well have become metaphorically "flat," it is still populated with human beings -- and human beings don't perform peak potential without training and intelligent management. Companies are fundamentally composed of people, something that is as true during the age of Bill Gates as it was during that or Rockefeller, the changes owing to the Internet notwithstanding.