What a Career Coach Does: The Steps So Far1 In the last two days, you have read about what a Career Coach does in the first two steps to a satisfied coaching client in the career coaching process. First, take a detailed career history. Second, collect other information in a variety of ways to round out the picture of what your client envisions as her perfect career, what you intuit about her, her style, and her underlying needs and wishes, objective information about her behavioral comfort … [Read more...]
Archives for June 2010
Life Coach Marketing For Internet Dummies
Life Coach Marketing a Waste of Time? . Private Call THURSDAY: "5 Days to Start an Online Coaching Business" (Must be on The PRIVATE ACCESS LIST to Attend) . Get the Flash Player to see this player. CLICK HERE (Right Click, and select ’save link as…’ to download this video “Life Coach marketing online is not for me.” That’s what I said as early as a year ago when someone told me about Life Coach marketing on the internet. This video will show you differently. It covers the 5-day … [Read more...]
What A Career Coach Does: Part II: Career Diagnosis
In yesterday’s blog post, What a Career Coach Does: Four Steps to a Satisfied Client: Part I, you learned the process and value of first part of the Career Coaching process, the career history. Using the medical analogy we started with yesterday, once you have a complete history, you move on to...... What a Career Coach Does: Step Two–Make a Diagnosis For a Career Coach, the diagnostic process ideally includes four types of input: the career history, your experience and intuition as a Coach, … [Read more...]
What A Career Coach Does: Four Steps To A Satisfied Client –Part I
What a Career Coach does is very much like what a good doctor does: take a history, make a diagnosis using facts, intuition and appropriate technology as needed, discuss options, and make recommendations for treatment. If we translate all those factors into the context of Career Coaching, you, the coach, are the doctor and master diagnostician, the patient is your coaching client, and the reason for the visit is a pain in the “ca-rear”. What a Career Coach Does: The Problem Just like when a … [Read more...]
Life Coaching Business Struggles: How to Keep Climbing
Creating a successful life coaching business is a lot like mountain climbing. You need to develop the strength to climb, which is what happens as you hike in the foothills. At some point as you climb, you’ll likely to experience altitude sickness. Headache, nausea, vomiting, etc. You’re body’s reaction to the new environment. It’s no joking matter, and in fact for many people the only way to get rid of the symptoms is to go back down to the bottom of the mountain. If you can make it … [Read more...]
Wellness Coaching Wisdom: You Are Who You Eat With
In wellness coaching it’s not just, “You are what you eat.” It’s also you are who you eat with. Peer group is everything. Take a mostly vegan person like myself to another city to meet up with family and see what happens to my diet. Especially when sitting down to a very nice steakhouse with a dozen other people who are ordering steak. At one point in time I asked how many different types of beef can they make? The only reason I didn’t order a steak was that I know how my … [Read more...]
Coaching Tips For Failures: Become a Coach Who Can Turn Them Around
There are a lot of coaching tips to get people to change behaviors that are effective, but clients need tips they can use at home to create lasting change outside your sessions. Everyone who wants to make changes in their life struggles, falls off the wagon, or otherwise has moments where they feel like they have failed. These powerful coaching tips will put some control back into your clients’ lives. Negative Reinforcement Is Detrimental to Success Let’s face it. Most of use beat ourselves … [Read more...]
Health Coaching Riddles: How to Lose Fat Where You Want to Most
The biggest challenge in health coaching, or any other type of coaching, is helping your clients achieve results. Beyond losing weight and improving health, most clients want to target their “problem areas.” For men it’s their gut and for woman it’s their hips. Why is it so hard to lose weight in those places? Two Myths That Prevent People From Achieving Their Goals 1 Myth #1: Exercising will help flatten your stomach. Possibly in extreme cases by improving posture, but in general spot … [Read more...]
How to Become a Health Coach Who Gets Clients Off the Diet Roller Coaster
If you want know how to become a health coach who makes a difference, then you need to help your clients achieve long term results. Let’s face it: weight loss goals don’t work long term. Once people achieve their health goals, they start losing interest. Summer is here, and people are motivated to become a little thinner so they look good in a swimsuit. When it gets colder people can hide a few extra pounds in layers. How is a coach supposed to do to keep people on track all year? How to … [Read more...]
Become a Life Coach Who Wins The War Against Interruptions
If you want to become a life coach who wins the war against the biggest threat to getting results, you’ll need to understand the enemy. Interruptions will rob you of achieving your greatest dreams in life if you don’t prepare seriously. Become a coach who not only can help yourself, but also help your clients. . Most people don’t really see interruptions as a serious threat. In fact, most people receive a big payoff from interruptions. Email is as addictive as narcotics. Phone calls give … [Read more...]
