A plaque on my brother-in-law’s wall brings to mind my current experience with internet life coach marketing. When you are up to your ass in alligators, it is difficult to remind yourself that your initial objective was to drain the swamp. The process of getting my internet life coach marketing up and running has taken over my life for the last month or so. I wasn’t quite ready to tackle that particular swamp, but coaching has given me the “be unstoppable” mentality, so the opportunity to … [Read more...]
Archives for September 2010
4 Keys to Business Leadership Coaching Communication
Business leadership coaching begins by acknowledging that people communicate differently and it's your job to coach your business client so they understand this fact. Your business leadership coaching will help them be more effective with employees, prospects, customers, and their suppliers. Mastering the 4 keys to communication below will help you be far more affective as a business coach. You will be more powerful at enrolling more business coaching clients because you'll know what it is … [Read more...]
The Art and Practice of Leadership Coaching Revealed
The art and practice of leadership coaching requires you to spend lots of time coaching, and you need to have plenty of patience. The only way to learn the art of leadership coaching is to practice it on a weekly basis and get frequent constructive feedback from other coaches. It's important to get experience because you want to practice with another coach to ensure your leadership coaching will be effective for your paying clients straightway. Gain Competence In The Art And … [Read more...]
3 Roles You Must Play To Turn A Coaching Practice Into A Business
Would you be offended if I told you that your coaching practice is just a hobby? Well, if you are reading this, that might be your situation. Are you coaching part time without any concrete plan to leave your “real” job? Undervaluing your services because you really want to help people but you aren’t sure your coaching is good enough to charge them? Or maybe you’re coaching full time, but barely scraping by financially? Not exactly what you had in mind when you decided to open a coaching … [Read more...]
Life Coach Tips To Avoid “Shiny Object Syndrome”
If anyone ever needed life coach tips, it’s now. With all the information and opportunity out there right now, it’s almost impossible to focus on one thing. The worst part of this syndrome is that high achievers are at the greatest risk. Since the key to success is based on the ability to focus, you’ll need a cure for Shiny Object Syndrome. What is Shiny Object Syndrome? Shiny Object Syndrome is the inability to focus on a single task or project in the midst of a sea of other enticing objects. … [Read more...]
Business Leadership Coaching Is a Red Hot Career
Business leadership coaching will be the saving grace for many uprooted workers in the next decade. I say this because of the paradigm shifts caused by outsourcing and the slowing U.S. economy loads of older and unemployed workers need to start their own business or they'll be left holding an empty bag. And you know people who hire a business leadership coach will retool faster and get their leg-up on their competition. Now most economists agree that the next five to ten years in the U.S. … [Read more...]
Leadership Training And Coaching: Can Character Be Developed?
One of the key ingredients to successful leadership training and coaching programs are role models who demonstrate outstanding character. If people can’t trust you, they won’t follow you. People of integrity often seem to fall into leadership, but is character something that can be learned through training or coaching? Or are leaders born, not made? Leadership Training And Coaching Depends On Great Role Models . One way to develop character through leadership training and coaching is to … [Read more...]
Get Your Client Off The Teeter-Totter With Life Balance Coaching
Most of your clients will benefit from life balance coaching. They may not think of what they want in quite those words, but if they aren’t satisfied with their lives, or their level of success in their work or business, or their relationships, often times the cause is a lack of balance on the teeter-totter of their daily lives. The costs of an out-of-balance life An out-of-balance life can show up in your clients as almost anything. A successful business woman comes to you because her … [Read more...]
Top 10 Reasons To Become A Coach That You Might Not Have Thought Of
Every coach has her own list of the top 10 reasons to become a coach. Some we knew before we started. Others become obvious as a result of our coaching experiences. Here is my top 10 list: Internal reasons in my “top 10 reasons to become a coach” list 1. Coaching give me a sense of purpose and an opportunity to help heal the world, as well as many more than 10 reasons to become a coach! 2). Coaching teaches what accountability and integrity are really about. Now I know that even a … [Read more...]
Tips On Coaching From A Quality Control Perspective
Tips on coaching may not seem a particularly likely focus for quality control, but you want to be the most effective coach you can be, right? So you need to find a way to know if you are being your most effective. If you have a transformative session with your client and the results are obvious, you are clearly being highly effective. But what if that isn’t your experience every time you coach? What are some of the factors you can actually look at objectively to see if you are working at the … [Read more...]
