Is College Success Coaching Right For You?
A strong college success coach will be independent, passionate, curious, possess grit, and display an unwavering sense of purpose and passion for helping high school students succeed.
This may sound like a description of someone who is not you. But I beg to differ. Most people, like most students, fear the unknown. This is why many people live lives marked by predictability, comfort, and the known.
However, the stress of the unknown can be alleviated by a strong onboarding process that helps college success coaches learn the nuts and bolts of working with students, gaining expertise, using an evidence-based program, and joining a community of other coaches to gain support, insight, and yes, motivation when you need it.
Benefits of Being a College Success Coach
There are several benefits of becoming a college success coach, including but not limited to:
Meeting a growing need among young people and their families.
Changing the lives of your clients.
Building a consulting company, you can grow at your own pace.
Second income doing what you love.
Controlling your schedule and the number of clients you work with.
Doing everything online, working with clients and families, and coaching from high school into college. This means you can serve anyone in North America or the world.
There is minimal risk, small investment, and the benefit of joining a community of other professionals with the same vision.
Every year you have a new group of clients who need your services.
You can expand your business with other revenue-generating services and programs.
Tying It All Together with My College Max
Who can become a college success coach? Virtually anyone who has a college degree or is a graduate student. I have worked in higher education for 30 years as a career counselor, college success coach, faculty member, administrator, and, most recently, running the WNY Consortium of Higher Education. My time in higher education has taught me that every generation of students possesses the necessary skills to be successful. What’s missing is the intrinsic motivation necessary to succeed.
As a career counselor, I spent a lot of time developing handouts and distributing those to thousands of students I counseled and taught. Eventually, I turned that into a book, Untapped Capacity: How Every Student Can Achieve Extraordinary Things. The book was rated higher than all national career readiness books at 97%, and students loved the content.
Eventually, I turned that book into MyCollegeMax.com. This online portal is easily accessible to all students, has over 550 pages of content, and uses evidence-based modules to help students choose a major; make strong financial decisions about their college investment; understand their values, desired work environment, interests, learning styles, and personality traits; and tracks all of their activities automatically.
So it is perfect for students..right? Well, no. And here’s why, “the reason students rated my book so high wasn’t just because of the book, it was because of the teacher.” Students need support to successfully transition from high school, being receptive learners, to college, and becoming consumers of knowledge that builds the necessary expertise to thrive in their chosen careers.
Your Role as a College Success Coach
A college success coach, using the resources of mcmcoaches.com combined with MyCollegeMax.com, can quickly develop the expertise to work with any student. Equally important, students need college success coaches, or they simply will keep doing what they always have done. That formula means failure for most college students who either drop out, underperform or graduate without the skills necessary to succeed in today’s job environment.
In summary, becoming a college coach is easy; it can be done part-time or grow into a full-time profession, and it is desperately needed. I invite anyone to go to mcmcoaches.com to explore this opportunity and find a truly rewarding career that offers student clients the opportunity they will otherwise never have. Moreover, it offers the coach a rewarding, well-compensated, and adaptable career.
Finally, the beauty of mcmcoaches.com is that we help you every step of the way to build your expertise as a coach AND grow your business. We have self-directed training, resources, videos, webinars, an online coaching community, a customized MyCollegeMax.com landing page for coaches, a built-in student client tracking tool, and much more!
Our goal is to make this as easy as possible for you. Therefore, whether you’re new to coaching or already have a coaching business you want to add to, a My College Max coach is a great opportunity.
The Added Benefit of My College Max
MyCollegeMax.com also works for students where the trades or other post-secondary tracts are more appropriate. Not every person needs to go to college, but every high school student needs more than a high school degree. As a My College Max College Success Coach, you can offer your services to any student and know that you will provide them with an individualized service that will direct them to the most appropriate post-secondary pathway.
If you would like to learn more about becoming a My College Max college success coach, visit: Be an MCM Coach.
