Whether you’re married or just starting out on the dating scene, a personal dating coach has some keen insight into dating and relationships. For starters, this is all subjective; however, it’s a great place to start. Dating can be tricky, especially when you’re just starting out, yet, once you have your dream relationship, it’s just as important to make a personal commitment to keeping the dating alive. We’re Just Hard Wired That Way, Personal Dating Coach Here’s a little insight from a … [Read more...]
Archives for May 2011
Boost Your Self Efficacy with Coaching and Positive Psychology
Seldom do we initially start out developing our self efficacy with coaching and positive psychology. Our lives take on the roles we are given during our socialization or upbringing. Along the way we pick up our morals, values, stereotypes, prejudices and biases towards people, places and experiences of those interactions. Somewhere along the road to adulthood we picked up a self concept and a belief system or the psychology that you are good at certain activities or not. The degree of your … [Read more...]
Sales Training Coaching: Sales Theory into Results
Neuro-linguistic programming theory states that learning only occurs when behavior changes. Coaching is all about making action happen. So for sales learning to occur, sales training coaching is needed to turn sales theory into changes in sales behavior and increases in sales results. Here are three coaching actions to assure that sales training actually occurs. Customize General Theory in to Specific Actions through Coaching Think back to the last training that you experienced. What was the … [Read more...]
Building Teams with Assessment Coaching
With assessment coaching, building high performance teams is a science. And while great leaders may follow this approach using their intuition, you can follow it with uncanny success using assessments. Assessments are “psychological instruments” – you might call them personality tests – which are validated on huge sample sizes, over many years to give scientifically reliable insights. Here is how it works. Balancing Personality Styles In assessment coaching, we first determine the personality … [Read more...]
Putting the Great into Your Group Coaching
If you think group coaching is all about the economies of coaching six to eight people in a single session, then you are missing the point. Coaching a group is all about the group – that is, the dynamics of the group are what can make this coaching format great. Mix or Match, but Make It Work There are three elements to constructing your group for successful group coaching. First, look for common interests. Second, look for a balance of expertise. Finally, look for a mix of positive … [Read more...]
Best Practices For Coaching: Sale Delayed = Easily Made
One of the more important and Best practices for coaching is for you to get a handle on the fact that forcing a sale with an introvert can be the reason why you don’t make the sale at the end of your free coaching sessions and then you end up loosing out on hordes of great clients because you lack the knowhow of how to engage certain kinds of coaching prospects and you can’t seem to bring yourself to be able to slow down and walk away from your potential client to create the space for them to … [Read more...]
Stress Coaching: How Hard Could It Be?
I was driving through the beautiful hills just outside San Diego for a special weekend trip with my Girl Scout troop when I saw a large sign in an empty lot that said, “Stress Coaching” and a number to call. I did a double take through the rear view mirror, wondering who would need coaching for stress out in such a tranquil area. And how many people would just pick up the phone and call a number painted on a large wooden sign? Have You Ever Considered Stress Coaching? Typing “stress coaching” … [Read more...]
Taking Action Business Coaching to the Next Level
Action business coaching is a method of giving coaches their strength and confidence back. At times, we all lose our focus. By taking action on the coaching you receive from your coach, you are better able to prepare your clients to take massive action in their business. Over the last few years we’ve seen businesses come and go. The ones that make it have a clear understanding of how to apply sales, marketing, management and finances. Once you as an action business coach start teaching your … [Read more...]
Do Your Executive Coaching Fees Make You Giggle?
The famous marketing expert, Dan Kennedy, says that he has his chiropractor clients practice explaining their fees into a mirror, until they can do it without giggling. If you giggle when you explain your executive coaching fees, then you and these chiropractors have something in common: you don’t appreciate the value to your clients of the services that you provide. Value Is in the Eye of the Client One of the first things you need to realize when you set your executive coaching fees is that … [Read more...]
How to Encourage the New Coach AND Be Honest, too!
OK. You‘re a new coach. You ask yourself: “Where do I start? Is this as overwhelming a field as it seems?” The simple answer is: “Yes!” But here is some guidance to deal with the most exhilarating, and – let’s face it – intimidating moment of your life. Is Coaching as Vast a Field as It Seems? Yes! And that is a lot of the fun of it. Where else can you positively impact so many people in so many ways at such a profound level? The answer is nowhere else! But how can you feel confident in a … [Read more...]
