Life coach articles can be found everywhere. Many life coaches will write on their blogs or submit to their articles to article sites to help their life coaching businesses. The best life coaching articles cover specific topics and techniques. Currently, this blog has 780 articles posted, and about 5-10 are known as the 'favorites'. Using Life Coach Articles to Market Your Coaching Business Life coach articles can help you get coaching clients. They help in two major ways: They get … [Read more...]
Archives for April 2011
Dear Relationship Coach: My Partner Never Gets Frisky!
Your relationship coach knows the tips and tricks to get your partner to get down and be more freaky deaky because if you or your partner don’t exude both bad boy and good boy or bad girl and good girl energies in your relationship, you aint going to be real excited about being in a long-term relationship with a person who can’t play both roles at least sometimes because the mystery, intrigue, and face it, balance of naughtiness and responsibility won’t be present to create the stability you … [Read more...]
Dear Relationship Coach: Do Opposites Attract?
A relationship coach knows the truth that if you’re in a steaming, hot relationship and you’re unsure about how your relationship will turn out for you, but the only thing is you know that you’re so deeply in love and attracted to your bad boy or bad girl and it’s crazy because you don’t quite know what you should believe about your deep feelings and your partners real true intentions. It’s understandable that you feel unsure, stressed, and fearful because opposites don’t really attract in the … [Read more...]
You’ll Never Cut It in Business Coaching
That’s right. If you’re not schizophrenic, you’ll never cut it in business coaching. That’s because you need to be a coach AND a business person, to be a business coach. In fact, to be a successful business coach, your brain must first be in the same business as your client – and then you get to be a coach. Business Coaching Is All about the Bottom Line – Sort of So when your client comes to you with a problem, it looks a lot like a business problem – probably something about the bottom line. … [Read more...]
Use Assessments to Supercharge Your Career Coaching
Assessments are scientifically validated psychological instruments. When properly administered and interpreted, assessments can give tremendous insights that you can use to supercharge your career coaching. Assessments, along with a comprehensive analysis of a client’s work history, give the coach what they need to make the perfect match. If Career Coaches Are Matchmakers, What Do They Match? Matches are made based on “style”—how we do what we do, “values” – why we do what we do, and … [Read more...]
Make Sparks Fly for Great Group Coaching
Far more often than not, meetings are a complete waste of time. The leader doesn’t do their homework. Attendees come unprepared. And there are never enough ham-and-swiss-on-rye sandwiches to go around. Unfortunately, your clients enter your group coaching sessions in a meeting state of mind. Don’t Facilitate. Agitate. It is critical from the very first moment to interrupt their “meeting mindset.” You have to startle them into consciousness. And you don’t do that by “facilitating.” So unless … [Read more...]
Three Must-Haves in Coaching Training
There are a LOT of coaching training programs out there. There are good programs, and I am sure that there are some really bad programs. Promises of “certification” or titles of “master coach” don’t guarantee anything in the real world. Before you sign up, check out the school and its faculty, ask for a free coaching session, demand to speak with staff and graduates, check out training materials. And whatever else you do look for these three must-haves. Consider only Comprehensive, … [Read more...]
Without Your Personal Coach, Just Button It Up!
It’s about your belief. It is about credibility. It’s about being the most powerful coach that you can be. How can you tell your prospect of the great value of having a coach, unless you have your personal coach supporting you? How can you present yourself as a great coach without having the benefits of personal coaching? You can’t. First, Establish the Value of Coaching in Your Own Mind What do you say to yourself when you don’t spend your own, hard earned dollars for coaching? Without your … [Read more...]
Coaching Tricks: Three Times to Be the REALLY Bad Cop
It’s nice to be nice to the nice. But unless it delivers the goods it’s not nice, it’s just drivel. That’s why these coaching tricks are worth their weight in gold. Remember, your client pays you with their hard earned cash for RESULTS. Cut off the Bullshit Have you ever found yourself in the middle of a coaching session with your head snapping back. And just before you nodded out, you saw the clock on the wall and realize that your client had been droning on for an entire hour – SAYING … [Read more...]
How To Build Confidence As A Business Success Coach
When do you start feeling confident enough to start calling yourself a business success coach? It’s not like the story of Alice in Wonderland, when take a pill and then suddenly you are confident. It’s a gradual process that takes years. But just because you don’t know everything doesn’t mean it’s too early to get onto the court and start your coaching business. In fact, you’ll never become confident until you start taking your best shots and reflect on how to improve your performance the next … [Read more...]
