Through life balance coaching, you help your clients meet the demands of work, family, and themselves. By understanding the four basic human needs and establishing strategies to increasing your clients’ fulfillment of each need, they will not only be happier, but their new positive behavior will be self-reinforcing. Each of Us Is “Hardwired” with Four Fundamental Needs Life balance coaching requires the understanding of our needs for Significance, Love and Connection, Certainty and Variety, … [Read more...]
Archives for March 2011
3 Great Coaching Questions For When Clients Get Stuck
Coaching questions are your stock and trade in the coaching profession. Unless you are more the consultant type of coach, you probably spend much of your session time asking questions. There are questions about goals, about challenges, about wins, about commitments kept or broken. You name it, a coach has questions. But what do you do when your client runs into a thought roadblock and just doesn't have an answer? Here are some mind-benders that just might open up the roadblock. A Coaching … [Read more...]
Coaching Tips – Using Guarantees to Increase Commitment
In these days of consumers’ rights, it might seem reasonable to offer guarantees in your coaching. But if you don’t handle them right, guarantees can significantly reduce your clients’ chances for success. Here are some coaching tips for increasing client commitment and therefore their chances for success. “Wiggle Room” Will Kill Your Coaching Results Successful coaching is built on absolute commitment to the coaching process from both the client and the coach. This process can include many … [Read more...]
Top 10 Mentor Skills Your Mentor Should Have
Have you ever considered what personal characteristics and mentor skills you would want in a mentor? Everyone who is successful has had at least one mentor, probably more over time. Sometimes you might be lucky enough to just kind of slip into a mentor-mentee relationship without even realizing it's happening. But often, you want to choose a mentor to help you with something specific. So do you know what to look for in that mentor? Here are my top 10 tips to help you successfully choose your … [Read more...]
Coaching Fees – Charging More for Shorter Engagements
It might seem reasonable for shorter coaching engagements to result in lower total coaching fees. But you need to remember that your clients hire you to help them to achieve breakthroughs and results. If you agree to coach a client to achieve certain goals in, say, three months that would normally take six months to achieve, it will require much more commitment and much more effort on their part and yours to achieve the goal in the shorter time period, and the client needs to compensate you … [Read more...]
3 Reasons Your Life Coach Marketing Needs Social Media
Life coach marketing is the way you educate your ideal clients and attract them to you. You need a planned campaign, strategic, well designed and carefully executed, to get the best results from your marketing. For most of us, online marketing has become, or will become, a mainstay, no matter what else is included in the campaign. And increasingly, social media like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are moving from the realm of an individual's personal life and becoming significant in the realm of a … [Read more...]
Business Leadership Coaching: Credibility Is Critical
In business leadership coaching you need to help your client strike a balance between stepping away from the day to day to have time to formulate a vision for the future, and staying involved enough to remain credible and aware in day to day events. This requirement to help your client to take a giant step into the future while keeping the other foot firmly in the present is the greatest challenge in this important area of coaching. Why Business Leaders Must Walk This Tightrope? Clearly … [Read more...]
Marketing for Coaches: Speak Up and Succeed!
When it comes to marketing for coaches it is easy to only think of the internet or networking. But one of the best ways to attract new clients is to get out of the audience and get on the stage. Speaking Proves You Are an Authority One of greatest benefits of public speaking is that people automatically see you as an authority. This means that your audience sets their skepticism aside and what you say goes straight into their subconscious. It also means that when you mention your coaching … [Read more...]
Life Coaching Training From Reality TV
Watch The Amazing Race on CBS sometime and you can get some terrific life coaching training on meeting goals. It's a reality show where teams of two race around the world completing various tasks along the way. The first team to finish wins a million dollars, and at the end of each leg there is the risk that your team will be eliminated if you arrive last. It's grueling. Teams are exhausted, filthy and challenged physically, mentally and emotionally. So what does this have to do with life coach … [Read more...]
Coaching Fees: Justifying Fees with Intangibles
Setting and justifying coaching fees for business coaching can be much simpler than for personal coaching. In business, people are used to justifying decisions using return on investment calculations based on numbers from accounting. In our personal lives, many decisions are made by default, driven by emotions and often “against our better judgment.” But you can still justify your coaching fees based on intangibles. Here’s how. The Cost of Pain and the Benefits of Pleasure Every decision that … [Read more...]
