A coaching mastermind multiples the intelligence and insights of the members of the mastermind group. Napoleon Hill said that an additional mind, a group consciousness, is created which is greater than the sum of the individual minds. As a coach, you are well advised to form a mastermind group of coaches with likeminded values and goals. Craft Your Mastermind Team Carefully When forming a coaching mastermind group, it is critical that you select your members carefully. To propel you on your … [Read more...]
Here’s what You Need To Be a Coach
Straight from the heart, here’s what you need to be a coach. Just three things: competence, caring and capability. Do you have them? Can you get them? If not, set down the study guide from that online program “ become a master coach in 36 hours for $397,” and be glad you did. Coaching Demands Competence Of all the strengths you would like to have in the surgeon who is about to perform open-heart surgery on YOU, wouldn’t competence be right up there at the top of your list? You bet your sweet … [Read more...]
Breaking the Cycle, Key to Stress Coaching Success
There is a great scene in the movie The Last Samurai that has a strong lesson for stress coaching. In this scene, a young Japanese archer tells the Western hero, Nathan Algren, that the reason he cannot beat the samurai in sword fighting is that “he has too many minds.” One mind is wheeling the sword. One mind is aware of the mind wheeling the sword. And one and many more minds each being aware of those minds being aware. There are few situations more threatening than being at the wrong end … [Read more...]
How to Become a Business Coach Is a Two Part Story
One of the biggest questions in coaching today is how to become a business coach. The reason is that business coaching is where the benefits of individual coaching can be leveraged throughout an entire organization. So both the potential impact of your coaching, and your fees can be amazing. The Ultimate Double-Win Equation It’s worth learning how to become a business coach because once you get it, you can get the double-win of helping the individual and the organization. Imagine for a minute … [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...]
Three Coaching Tips for Today’s Economy
From time to time, every coach needs a few new coaching tips to add a little zest to their sessions. But these days, here are three tips that can make the difference to the success or failure, life or death for your clients. Yes, Life or death! First among these Coaching Tips: Never Underestimate the Overwhelming Stress in People’s Lives For men at least – and more and more for women, too – people simply don’t want to admit just how hurt they are. To protect themselves from facing the terror … [Read more...]
The Day When You Actually Saw Yourself As A New Coach
There is a day when you are a new coach. And there was the day – quite a while before – when you decided to look into being a coach. That was the day when you said to yourself that you already were a coach. Yes, a coach to the new guy at work and to the kids on your son’s peewee soccer team. Hell yes! You already were a coach! And a pretty darn good one. At least none of the kids had quit, and you had a winning season, more or less. Yes, you already were a coach! Soccer – Life – Coaching Is … [Read more...]
Keeping Emotional Score Is One of the Best Coaching Tips
It is easy to be buried in an avalanche of coaching tips. But one of the best tips on coaching that you will ever get is to keep tracked of the balance in the “emotional bank account” you have with your client. OK, but what Is an Emotional Bank Account? Glad you asked. Steven Covey invented the term in his landmark book “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People”. Basically the idea is that whenever you do something “nice” to someone you make a deposit into this emotional bank account. When … [Read more...]
For the New Coach, It’s a Matter of Does and Don’ts
That’s right for the new coach, it’s a little scary. Do this. Don’t do that. But that is how to separate the coaches, new or old, from the non-coaches. That’s right: does and don’ts. To be effective, a coach, new or old – I mean new or experienced, must have the judgment to do the right thing, in the right way, at the right time. Be Your Own Judge – Do You Really Care or Not If you conduct yourself as a physician or a priest used to – untouchable in their integrity – then you will be a great … [Read more...]
Strike It Rich Today with This Coaching Strategy
Here is a coaching strategy that you can use, even in these hard times, to strike it rich. Yes, rich. There are three components to this approach: consulting, coaching and value-based equity sharing. So how can these three elements come together to make you rich even today? Partially because these are difficult days. Partially because these days have gone on as long as they already have. Now This Approach Is a little Different. Before we get too far into this, let’s define a few terms so we … [Read more...]
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