Life coaching business tips can come from all kinds of places—case in point, Las Vegas casinos, which are pretty hard to avoid in Las Vegas. I've been to and through many of them over the last couple of days and they mostly follow a similar formula. As a life coach entrepreneur, I've learned to pay attention wherever I am to learn from other businesses, so here are three tips gleaned from the casinos that we coaches can use in our life coaching business. Your Life Coaching Business Should Be … [Read more...]
Archives for November 2010
How To Use Daylight Savings Time To Boost Your Coaching Career
It’s that time of year again, when the days start getting shorter and the holidays start taking a toll on our life coaching career. With fewer hours of daylight, our bodies start going into hibernation mode. We start feeling comfy and cozy, and before you know it we find fewer hours to devote to our coaching businesses. It’s difficult enough to juggle career and family obligations when you have a regular job, but when you create your own schedule sometimes it feels impossible to maintain your … [Read more...]
Is Your Life Coaching A Fraud? Coach Performance Anxiety
Lots of people don’t want to get started with their life coaching business because they don’t rip people off. Their fear of failing to provide value in their coaching session keeps them from getting on the court. Sure it’s much easier to continue to coach people for free, but unfortunately most people who get free coaching never are really committed to the process. Without commitment, the likelihood of getting a great result or change in your life is close to nil. How Do You Avoid Ripping Off … [Read more...]
Life Coach Career: Are You A Glutton For Punishment?
Your life coach career is a terrific place to experience the pangs and pleasures of gluttony—the sixth in our series of the seven deadly sins in your coaching business. According to wikipedia, St Gregory the Great said that “one may succumb to the sin of gluttony” by several different means, including time (when), quality, stimulants, and quantity. So how do those translate into characteristics of your life coach career? Check it out and see if you are a glutton in either of the following two … [Read more...]
Is Lust An Issue In Career Coaching? An Actor’s Story
Career coaching is the perfect window from which to view the fifth deadly sin in our series, lust. Not to be boring, but let's take the sexual connotation out and give lust it's second definition--an overwhelming desire or craving, or an intense eagerness or enthusiasm. In other words, a passion. Recently, I had the opportunity to do some career coaching with a passionate but frustrated young actor, and to help her see the some of the pluses and minuses of her passion for her career. The … [Read more...]
Does The Deadly Sin Of Anger Affect Your Life Coaching?
In our seven deadly sins of life coaching series, the fourth sin is anger. Does anger ever show up in your coaching? Have you ever felt angry towards a client? What about feeling angry toward yourself? What was the anger about and how did you handle it? Whose fault was it really? Anger In Your Life Coaching Do you ever feel angry with a coaching client? Are you angry because you have taken personally something your client has said or done? Has your client triggered something you need to get … [Read more...]
The Lady Ga-Ga Life Coaching Business School
What does your life coaching business and Lady Ga-Ga have in common? Probably not much. Most coaches play it relatively safe when it comes to their coaching businesses. If you are serious about taking your life coaching business to the next level, however, I dare you to try some of Lady Ga-Ga’s techniques. Your Lady Ga-Ga Life Coaching Business Make-Over Tips. 1. Be clear about your vision and message. Once you are clear, share it with the rest of the world. 2. Use your assets to the fullest. … [Read more...]
Best Coaching Practices: The Art Of Active Listening
One of the best coaching practices is to master the art of active listening. As a good listener, it’s not enough to be able to parrot back the words the other person is saying. Active listening requires that you demonstrate that you are truly interested in the other person. It’s a necessity in order to establish rapport and in order to get the best possible outcomes for your clients during their coaching sessions. Using Active Listening As Part Of Your Best Coaching Practices • Listen with the … [Read more...]
The 5 Most Under-Utilized Tools For Increasing Your Life Coaching Income
Although you can increase your life coaching income in a number of ways, there are tools that coaches often forget during the prospecting or enrolling process that would make a huge difference in their coaching income. These have to do with tools that are readily available to all of us. Voice accounts for 38% of face-to-face communication, and even more with voice-to-voice communication as many life coaches use. Simply synchronizing your voice with your clients’ not only improves your enrollment … [Read more...]
