There are some times when it’s disastrous to use life coaching techniques on your clients. While it sounds a bit unlikely, coaching techniques can backfire and wreck havoc on your life and the lives of others. Don’t let this happen to you. When Using Life Coaching Techniques Can Get You Into Trouble 1. When you are using coaching techniques without consent from the person you are trying to coach. This is often seen as manipulative, and if you use it within the context of a complimentary … [Read more...]
Archives for November 2010
5 Things You Should Expect When Starting A Life Coaching Business
The uncertainty that comes with starting a life coaching business stops many coaches. It’s hard to jump into something when you really can’t test the waters first. Most coaches who take the testing the water approach never really get started, and thus eventually fail. It’s not their fault, but it is preventable. Here are 5 things that you can expect from your coaching business. Life Coaching Business Pitfalls And How To Navigate Them When I started out, I worked hard to get by … [Read more...]
Life Coaching Business Lessons From “The 3 Little Pigs”
There are plenty of life coaching business lessons that can be gleaned from the story of “The 3 Little Pigs.” These little pigs represent three different styles of coaching business owners; one that puts almost no effort at all into his business, one that puts some effort into his business but then leaves to go play, and then the third that has a longer term visions of what he wants to create in his life. The Big Bad Wolf is of course the economic winter that attempts to blow down each of the … [Read more...]
Is Your Life Coach Salary A Casualty Of Sloth?
If you are not busy building your business, you could be sacrificing your life coach salary on the altar of the seventh and last deadly sin of life coaching in my series—the sin of sloth. Sloth isn't a word we use very much nowadays, except to refer to those slow moving, tree-dwelling South American mammals. So let's use some more common words. Let's use laziness, apathy and inactivity. Are you guilty of one or more of those? Let's look at some of the ways they can impact your business. Are … [Read more...]
3 Childhood Keys To Making Your Coaching Practice Fun
When you started your coaching practice, what were you expecting? Did you expect it to be easy? Did you expect to quickly have a great income from coaching? Did you think that clients would be falling all over themselves to beat a path to your door? So how's it been going so far? If you are feeling frustrated, try adopting the playful attitude of a child approaching a new and exciting challenge. Try adopting the 3 keys to finding joy in your coaching practice. Are Your Clients Friend Or … [Read more...]
Coaching For Success Using A Three-Pronged Approach
If you are a coach, coaching for success is your ultimate goal. It doesn't matter whether it's success in business, relationships, or health, what you and your client want is success, however your client defines that. So what does it take to get success, to reach goals? What do you provide as a coach that your client can't provide for himself? What Does Success Look Like? Before you can know whether or not you've achieved success, you have to have a clear picture of the end point you want. … [Read more...]
Business Coaching Fees Explode: How to Become an Internet Marketing Coach
If you want to become a business coach or explode your business coaching fees, then you need to learn how to become an internet marketing coach. This is THE way to build a COACHING EMPIRE and My friends Larry & Andy have mastered it. Check out the special special "Business Coaching Fees Explosion" Webcast I'm doing with them next week. Why Your Business Coaching Fees Can Double… Almost Overnight . There's huge shift in the business world over the last few years. When was the last … [Read more...]
The Law of Attraction And Coaching: Lessons From A Halloween Party
How does the law of attraction and coaching work together? I was thinking about the law of attraction when I was at a Halloween party a few weeks ago, and how focus was so importing in coaching. I went into the inflatable jumpy house with my daughter; which is one of those big inflatable trampolines that are inside of a closed-in structure. It was fun until my focused changed. Why Focus Is So Important In The Law Of Attraction And Coaching I was in a fun environment, happily playing in the … [Read more...]
How to Coach Celebrities: Life Coaching For The Rich And Famous
Just because someone appears successful, doesn’t mean that they couldn’t benefit from life coaching. When it comes to coaching celebrities, there are some things you must be wary of if you want to deliver great value and make an impact. Here is the inside scoop that you won’t learn from the tabloids. Life Coaching Do’s And Don’ts For Celebrities 1. Make sure you check your nerves at the door. If you are worried about yourself, you can’t be there for your client 100%. 2. Establish rapport be … [Read more...]
Life Coach Marketing: Creating Powerful And Enrolling Promotional Materials
Many great coaches get stuck when it comes to life coach marketing. Let’s say you meet someone who wants to help promote your life coach business. Great! Next he or she tells you to just leave some of your marketing materials at the front desk. Then, your heart sinks just a bit because you suddenly realize that you don’t have much in the way of life coach marketing materials. What Your Life Coach Marketing Materials Must Say About You How do you create marketing materials that really let … [Read more...]
