Last week I talked about the craziest coaching session ever… ...And my client who was dealing with his Russian mail-order bride who hired a hitman to kill him... ...and how I couldn’t get past my ‘stuff’ about that… ...which taught me that I can’t coach my client if I get caught up in their issues. But what about your client’s ‘stuff’? How do you get YOUR CLIENTS past THEIR story so THEY can transform? How do you get YOUR CLIENTS past THEIR story so THEY can transform?" For … [Read more...]
Archives for September 2021
Connecting Coaching to Your Client’s Dream
Have you ever thought... ”I can totally help this person!” ...and yet they don’t enroll in coaching with you? It used to happen to me all the time… ...until I learned a simple ‘Dream Conversation’. This is the process I promised to share at the end of my last email… ...when I shared the story of my blind coaching client who bought a car… ...not because it was practical… ...but because it fulfilled a dream. The point was that clients don’t buy coaching… ...or … [Read more...]
ICF Accredited Coach Training Program – NLP Coaching Academy
Looking for an accredited coach training program where you can be trained and credentialed as an ICF Life Coach in India? How about checking out the NLP Coaching Academy. About NLP Coaching Academy India Founder Vikram Dhar established the NLP Coaching Academy, an ICF Mentor Coach NLP Coach and Coach Trainer, in January 2020. The organization was created to help provide the learning experience, knowledge, and set of tools needed for individuals to have total control over their lives. NLP … [Read more...]
Take Control of Your Future & Start a Coaching Business
If you are passionate about helping people transform their lives, you can start a coaching business with a small investment and earn a handsome amount of money. The process of starting a coaching business, however, isn't as simple and straightforward as it seems. It requires you to carefully think about a niche, acquire certification, gain a lot of knowledge, develop your skills, identify and target your potential clients, and much more. Let’s look at how big the coaching industry is … [Read more...]
My Blind Coaching Client Bought a Car?
I was running a discovery session the other day and asked my client this question... “What factors influenced you when you bought your last car?” He told me, “I’m blind.” Embarrassed, I apologized awkwardly... ...until he interrupted me... “But... I have a car.” He went on to describe the leather seats… ...the rims on the wheels… ...the smooth ride. He obviously loved his car. Weird? Yes. He confessed as much… ...that owning a car he couldn’t drive didn’t … [Read more...]
The Importance of The ICF Core Competencies to Credentialed ICF Coaches
The ICF core competencies have always been of great significance to the coaching profession. Core Competencies Defined What are Core Competencies for an organization? According to businessnewsdaily.com, "core competencies are a company's unique abilities, products, and services that give it a competitive advantage in its industry and market." Core competencies help an organization distinguish its products from its rivals and reduce its costs than its competitors and thereby … [Read more...]
Embracing Hard Things in Your Coaching Business
Do you want to work a job where a boss tells you exactly what to do? NO Do you want to have someone else limit the money you make? NO Do you want to run in circles like a hamster on a wheel? NO Then you need to embrace 2 hard things in your coaching business: Big walls that require massive effort to climb. Long treks across a desert of drudgery. Imagine climbing a giant staircase… The vertical surfaces of the … [Read more...]
When Your Coaching Clients’ Issues Are Your Own
I wasn’t going to finish this email to you… I was in the middle of writing it… ...when suddenly I thought… "This email sucks.” ”It’s just not compelling enough.” I couldn’t get past my issues about it. What’s ironic? The whole point of this email is… Wherever coaches have a problem... It stops them from helping their clients. Luckily, I talked to my coach about this… ...and he noticed the irony. HE SAID: “You’re not going to help our students get … [Read more...]
How to Build Your Life Coaching Business
“How to build your life coaching business?” is a question that life coaches often seek answers to. When you are a qualified life coach and have a versatile skill set to help people transform their lives, you start to wonder about building your life coaching business. No matter how good you are at life coaching, you are bound to face problems in running and building your business. Very often coaches find themselves in the valley of disappointment and despair when clients don't come as … [Read more...]
