Did you become a life coach to live a lie or did you become a life coach to live life to the fullest? If you really want to become a coach who excels you must watch out for the hypocrisy virus. Although this virus is deadly, it is treatable if you catch the warning signs quickly. . 3 Signs That You Have Become a Life Coach Who Is a Hypocrite. 1. You blame others for your lack of success. This can come in the form of blaming parents for a childhood that was sub-optimal or a spouse … [Read more...]
Archives for July 2010
Life Coaching Income: How Do You Win The Number’s Game?
“How much will my life coaching income be?” is a question I hear often from new coaches and from people considering coaching as a career. The answer is, it depends. It depends first on what coaching model you are following. Let’s look at two possibilities. New Coaches Can Work on Someone Else’s Team One model for earning a life coaching income is to work in someone else’s company. If someone else is providing you clients, or leads for clients, it eliminates a potential hurdle for you, but … [Read more...]
Thoughts on the Who and How of Leadership Coaching
What do you think of when you think about leadership coaching? Probably the context of business is what comes to mind. But leadership is an art and a skill set that your clients can use in many areas of life. Sure, you might be a business coach helping an executive or a branch manager to increase productivity in her team, but you could just as easily be a parenting coach helping a dad figure out how to blend an argumentative, stressed out family into a harmonious and happy unit The mindset … [Read more...]
Leadership Coaching: Why Your Client’s Company Went Bankrupt
They key to effective leadership coaching is to get people to do what they wouldn’t do otherwise. This is the crux of motivation. Ideally, the entire team needs to experience motivation in a way that amplifies each individual’s motivation. This creates a powerful team and requires good leadership skills. What are the key elements in coaching a team? Five Key Elements to Effective Leadership Coaching1 Create an Environment Where People Get Their Needs Met. Just as individuals have a … [Read more...]
Life Coaching Salaries: What’s Keeping You From Taking It To The Next Level
Most coaches don’t find it easy to increase their life coaching salaries. And it’s not that they don’t work hard. Most coaches work longer hours than the average employee. There are several reasons for the challenges many coaches face regarding their life coaching salaries. And the good news is that once you identify the culprit, you can start making changes almost immediately. What Keeps Coaches From Getting The Life Coaching Salaries They Deserve Is Their Mindset The biggest reason life … [Read more...]
Life Coaching Education In Unexpected Places
Life coaching education pops up all around us when we listen for it. It’s in movies, on the radio and television, even, as I recently found out, at the opera. Now granted, these snippets of coaching are not usually life changing, like on-going coaching is, but they can be educational and a spring-board– inspiring, thought provoking, and worthy of your notice. In the last two weeks, several life coaching education snippets have caught my attention, and I want to share them with … [Read more...]
Wellness Coaching: Part II -Tips On Techniques
Health and wellness coaching is a popular and growing coaching niche. As a coach in this field, you need to be a strategist, a cheer leader and often, a task-master. Here are some ideas on how to maximize your effectiveness with clients who want your help in this realm. . Where is your client headed?-- Setting Goals Wellness coaching, like any other coaching, requires specific goals. Without them, how will you and your client measure his progress? From his story, his or his … [Read more...]
Wellness Coaching: Part 1 – Success Tips
There is a huge need and an enormous market for health and wellness coaching in our sedentary and stressed out world. Parents want to stay healthy so they can watch their grandchildren get married. Executives want to have more energy, get more done, and be less stressed as they make their way up the corporate ladder. Companies want to boost morale, improve productivity, and pump up their bottom line. Wellness coaching impacts and supports all of these outcomes, and is fast becoming … [Read more...]
The Life Coach Marketing Mistakes Most People Make
The key to successful life coach marketing is not technical. It’s emotional. It has to do with the currency of providing value in terms of not what you have, but what your potential life coaching client is looking for. Essentially, marketing is not about what you have to offer as a coach, it’s about your potential client and the result they want to achieve. Most Coaching Web Pages Are a Waste of Money Many coaches don’t feel they can even start coaching until they have a “web presence.” … [Read more...]
Personal Nutrition Coach Pitfalls
The biggest personal nutrition coach pitfall is neglecting the inner game. Many nutrition coaches focus so much on strategy and information that they never fully enroll their clients in the coaching process. How do you become a coach who gets their clients to become totally dedicated to their personal health and nutrition? Inner Game Secrets the Average Personal Nutrition Coach Misses The first inner game tactic a personal nutrition coach must use to motivate their clients to achieve success … [Read more...]
