How to take advantage of our automated future
In our last article we looked at the potential impact Artificial Intelligence might have on the coaching industry. And although our conclusion in that article was that coaching would still exist and potentially even grow, there will obviously be changes to the way that we coach.
It’s entirely likely that developing technologies will make our coaching lives easier, should we choose to embrace them.
Apps and systems
Coaching, for the foreseeable future, will always involve a human touch in our opinion. As great as AI is, and as good as it will be in faking things like empathy, machines and programs are not going to truly feel empathy the way that a human can.
But coaches in the coming years will find more and more apps, programs and systems to help them not only manage and run their own businesses, but also to help them get results with their clients.
In our previous article we spoke about AI programs being better at writing copy or developing marketing strategies to grow your client’s businesses. Well those same programs will help you to grow yours as well.
What if I told you that there are already apps being developed that will, among other things, drive leads directly to your business? That this app will already have qualified the leads and positioned the importance of getting a coach with the prospective client. Well watch this space because that’s already happening.
Within this system reports will automatically be propagated with you the coach only needing to fill in a few blanks.
The system itself works as part of a wider series of alliances, meaning your clients – and you the coach – will be able to tap into expertise to get results fast.
But perhaps most exciting of all, will be the benchmarking information that this system will offer.
Of course, this is just one of many systems being developed.
In the future much of what you will be doing will be automated, from your marketing, to your bookkeeping, to your education and training. Chances are parts of your actual coaching will become automated as well.
But keep in mind that there will still be a need for real human to human contact. For relationships between beings who understand fear, frustration, anguish and excitement. It is indeed an exciting time to be alive.