The health of your coaching business depends on your coaching competency and your coaching competency depends on how well you communicate with your clients. Most of your communication is done with words, though some can be done with examples, games, and non-verbal methods. But, words are the “meat” of your communication with clients. When communicating with clients, it is easy to resort to clichés and jargons that have been used over and over again. These mostly meaningless words and phrases … [Read more...]
Archives for November 2011
Best Practices In Coaching: Getting To The Root Of The Problem
Even the best practices in coaching won't help you if you can't diagnose the issue. When we talk about diagnosis in coaching, we are really talking about identifying what people really want. According to modern psychology , what people really want is to get their needs met. The most essential needs to survival are certainty (comfort and safety), love (connectedness), significance (being valuable or needed), and variety. So how do you figure out what people need? Is there really a best practice … [Read more...]
Failure And The Success Coach
Failure and the success coach might sound like a contradiction but it’s not. Are you one of the success coaches who is thriving? Don't try to tell me that you haven't had your fair share of failures. Your failure actually helped boost your success. Failure The Key to Success Failure is the key to success whether you are a success coach, any other coach, or even a client. The success coach gets to see this first-hand (not to mention, more often). Your specialty is success, so you know that … [Read more...]
Are Accredited Online Coaching Programs Scams?
I wouldn’t say that accredited online coaching programs are scams, even though at times it might seem like it. There are many good life coaching schools that offer accredited online coaching programs and just as many fine programs that are not accredited. What’s The Big Deal About Accreditation? Choosing the right coaching school will affect your future as a coach. But whether the school is accredited or not should not be your main criteria and here are the reasons why: First off there … [Read more...]
A Surprise Personal Coaching Training From My Mother-In-Law
Who loves to get personal coaching training from their mother-in-law? I admit I have a rare relationship with my mother-in-law. I don't think of her as the stereotype, she is more like a hero. Today she got an award with a crowd of 500 people giving her a standing ovation for one of her lifetime achievements in contributing to the lives of others. It made me realize that many coaches would love to be in her shoes, and that she is highly qualified to provide personal coach … [Read more...]
When Prospects Baulk at Your Coaching Fees
What does it mean when prospects baulk at your coaching fees? Perhaps they say they know your fees are fair, but they just don’t have the cash right now – surely you understand. Maybe they are overcome with a coughing spell, excuse themselves and never return. Or they just burst into laughter and say you must be kidding. Fine. But what does it really mean? Coaching Is not a Commodity The fact is that if anything is not a commodity, it is coaching. Standards and credentials are still not well … [Read more...]
The Con in Content—What’s Stopping Your Life Coaching Business
How many life coaching businessor marketing get rich quick or self-help programs have you bought? If you are anything like me, then you have bought plenty. Have they worked for you? Most likely not. What’s The Con? The con in content is that no matter how great the content is, if you don’t actually do it than you won’t make progress. Like Jedi Master Yoda of Star War fame said to Luke Skywalker “Try not. Do or do not, there is no try.” In other words reading only or trying only will not … [Read more...]
What Are The Coaching Core Competencies?
Coaching core competencies is the skill set that a professional coach must master to be certified. There are many different associations that are working toward getting the profession of coaching acknowledged, regulated and standardized at the National and International levels. The one I am most familiar with is the International Coaches Federation (ICF). One of the things these different associations want to standardize is coaching core competencies, however, since there are so many in … [Read more...]
How Does Personality Coaching work? I am Who I am! Right?
Personality Coaching, huh? I don’t know, are you who you say you are? Who’s on first? If “I am” is on third and “you” are on second, then where am “I”? Before we decide if you simply are who you and how a personality coach works, let us explore what personality is. Who, What, When, Where and Why Personality? The who, is YOU. Personality is defined as the visible aspect of your character as it impresses others. Your personality is an embodiment of a collection of your unique qualities. It … [Read more...]
How To Tell If A Certified Life Coach Online Training Is A Lemon
Certified life coach online training companies are popping up everywhere these days. There are so many certified life coaching trainings online and no one to really objectively critique the quality. Even the International Coaching Federation has dropped the ball here and failed to do more than create hoops for training companies to jump through, without really assessing the level of competence of their graduates. So what's a would be coach to do? You have to be ready to do your homework before … [Read more...]
