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10 New Year’s Resolutions For Your Career Coach Business

January 5, 2012 By Fred Phillips 2 Comments

It’s the start of another year; 2011 is headed into the history books, and 2012 appears as a brand new opportunity for your career coach business.

Here are 10 New Year’s Resolutions that every coach should think about. These resolutions are designed to grow and expand your career coach business and create a happier, healthier, more prosperous YOU!

Start 2012 off with a bang! Make at least a few of these resolutions and KEEP them! Broken resolutions don’t help.

  1. Your career coach business always needs new clients. Research, create, and implement at least one new marketing or promotional strategy.
  2. Once you have implemented a new marketing strategy, research, create, and implement one more new marketing or promotional strategy.
  3. Get your legal affairs in order. Create a file for all relevant documents – business licenses, tax permits, insurance certificates, and other important information.
  4. Create or update a business plan. EVERY business needs a business plan. If your practice is a one man coaching operation, your business plan doesn’t need to be long and complex, but you definitely do need one.
  5. Get more training. Even if you think you know it all, you don’t! Take a course, go to a professional seminar, sign up for a certification program – anything that provides more training will benefit your career coach business.
  6. Explore niche coaching opportunities within your field. Niche coaching often provides the opportunity for more success. Being a big fish in a small pond is better than a small fish in a big pond.
  7. Do something different, outrageous, and completely off the wall with your clients. Take you session outside to a park, go on a hike, take your client out to a sporting event. Creative ways to hold sessions help relax your clients, and ward off the mundane and routine.
  8. Get out and network with others in the coaching field. This is not only a great way to promote your business, it is also great to get out and mingle with others who have the same interests and passions.
  9. Give to those in need. Offer free coaching to those who may need your services, but cannot afford them. Find ways to use your coaching ability and knowledge to help others in your community.
  10. Take a few minutes to smell the roses. Coaches work hard, but all work and no play not only make you a dull coach, it’s also bad for you. Everyone needs some play time.

1 More Powerful Resolution For Your Career Coach Business

When making resolutions for your business, don’t forget to take care of the coach. Take some time to mentor yourself. That’s right, it doesn’t hurt to offer some of your expertise to yourself. Reflect, analyze, and dissect your own career. If you find weaknesses or areas that are lacking, spend some time creating a roadmap to bolster and boost your own professional life. Even a coach needs a little coaching from time to time.

The Best and Smartest Way to Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions

If you want to keep your resolutions, make sure they are smart. Smart stands for:

  • Specific
  • Measurable
  • Attainable
  • Reasonable
  • Timely

If you make SMART resolutions in your career coach business, chances are you’ll keep them. If you keep your SMART resolutions, chances are your business will grow and prosper. Now that’s the way to bring in the New Year!

Give this strategy a try and see for yourself that it works. If you liked this coaching tip, leave a comment or use the handy bookmark buttons below to share it with others on Facebook, Twitter, Digg, etc. Thanks!

Fred Philips
Business Coach
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How to Expand Your Career Coach Business: Coach Training From The 1920’s

April 10, 2009 By Jeffrey T. Sooey Leave a Comment

If You Want to Expand Your Career Coach Business, You May be Wondering Where You Start

What will make the greatest impact on your success?

Your emotions.

Your emotions not only drive your behavior but the quality of your behavior. Can you change your emotions? Of course, and with some coach training and a little practice you can change it as easily as you change an outfit. To change your emotions or your state of mind you must alter your “triad”, which is the constellation of three forces that create your emotions. .

These three forces are:

  1. Physiology: Your physiology has a direct link with your brain. Physiology includes your biochemistry (blood sugar level, level of hydration, chemicals/hormones), your structure (such as posture and facial expressions), and your movements.

  2. Language: Our language and the auditory spectrum of communication is a big part of our reality. Words, pictures and sounds affect us, whether they are imagined or actual.

  3. Focus/ Beliefs: This includes your values, priorities, and outlook on the world and who you believe you are.

So How Can You Use These Forces to Expand Your Career Coach Business?


We’ll get some coach training from a young businessman who was dedicated to his own success.  My dad started his first business in 1928 when he was 7 years old. OK, so it wasn’t exactly a career coach business, but it will do for the purposes of this coach training. Having just moved from a farm to the big city, he saw lots of opportunity. He noticed people threw their empty soda bottles away, even though they were worth money. So he collected them, washed them and planned to cash in. Unfortunately, he wasn’t allowed to cross the street. So he hired another kid to take his little red wagon load of bottles across the street for him. The two of them continued a nice partnership until my dad was finally allowed to cross the street.

How Can This Story be Used as a Coach Training for Your Career Coach Business?


First, look at this story from my dad’s physiology. If he would have gotten angry at his parents for not letting him cross the street and thrown a tantrum, his body would have reacted by going into “fight or flight” response. When this happens, blood flow goes to the muscles that are needed to fight or run, and blood flow to the brain decreases. That means tunnel vision, and less of an ability to think about alternative options. If he had been tense or meek when he asked the other boy to help him, it’s possible that the other boy would have run off with his wagon. Your physiology will effect how you present yourself to others in your career coach business. You can change your physiology immediately by exercising, standing up or sitting down, or altering your breathing pattern.

The Next Coach Training Tip is to Look at Language Patterns


My dad kept his focus on his vision, and when obstacles came up he asked himself, “what can I do?” instead of telling himself what couldn’t be done. When obstacles come up in your career coaching business, remember to be careful what you tell yourself.

And finally, even though there was no coach training around in that time, this little boy’s belief was that he would succeed. Whatever you believe is a powerful indicator of what you will attempt and what you won’t attempt. Focus on what you want to achieve, and obstacles will seem like small ripples in the ocean instead of tidal waves.

Colette Seymann

JTS Advisors Accountability Coach

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