Now I don’t actually know that these are real “secrets” but when you look around at some of the dumb things that people call small business consulting marketing, you have to think that they are genuine secrets. What makes this whole thing more of a mystery is knowing that these apply to marketing for any kind of consultant, big or small, business or otherwise. First, Don’t Expect to Get the Role without a Great Audition If you have any right to call yourself a consultant, then you sure as hell … [Read more...]
Be a Personal Career Coach – but Don’t Screw Up!
Being a personal career coach may seem simple, but the stakes are high. You can help your client determine their true calling, or you can set them up for a life of unhappiness. No pressure there. Here are three straightforward steps that a career coach can follow to keep your client on the right course and keep themselves in business. First, Realize that Your Client’s Career Is Your Client’s Life When we are talking careers, we are talking more than just a series of jobs that take up the span … [Read more...]
Critical Coaching Tips: Coaches Need Coaching, Too
Of all my favorite coaching tips, knowing that champion coaches need coaching too, is certainly my most favorite. It is kind of like facing and accepting an eternal truth, in action. Like what’s true for the goose is true for the gander. What’s true for the client is true for the coach. Now that is a cosmic and an eternal truth! So what Does It Mean for a Coach to Follow the Directions of a Coach? First it means that that coach is a smart coach more interested in getting better and more … [Read more...]
Amateur Hour in the World of Business Coaching
Frankly, I have had my fill of amateur-hour business coaching that is not based on years of real-world experience. So let’s cut through the bull shit. If you have read a lot books and your “real world” experience only came during good times, than you simply don’t know anything about running a business. And you certainly aren’t in a position to even have an opinion about how to run a business in times like these. Got it?! Great Coaches Are Almost Never the Best Players Being a great coach … [Read more...]
Don’t Want no damn Coaching Questions!
That’s right. We just don’t want no damn coaching questions. What we want is answers. What we want is coaching answers. The problem is that you just don’t get answers without questions. It’s as simple as that. Got it?! No Answers without no Questions. Now don’t go and over think this one, Sparky. You can make a statement, but just don’t have an answers without a questions first. The good news is that you are the Coach and you are the one who gets to ask the questions. Yes! You are the one who … [Read more...]
Three Magic Coaching Questions
With all their secrets hidden inside of your client’s head, there are an infinite number of coaching questions that one might ask to begin a coaching relationship. But there are three magical questions that will give the coach what they need to know to begin to coach successfully. Here They Are, Simple as 1 – 2 – 3 The first question is “Please share with me what you would normally share when you are letting someone get to know you?” The second question is “If you had a magic wand, what three … [Read more...]
Career Coaching Offers Great Opportunities in Today’s Economy
Career Coaching can help to defuse the “turnover time bomb” that exists in many companies today. According to the May 2010 issue of the Harvard Business Review, 25% of top employees intend to change companies as the economy improves. This turnover will cost companies millions of dollars in hard cash. Reducing turnover through effective coaching can mean great opportunities for coaches working in this area. How Career Coaching Can Reduce Turnover Employees, who are being career coached, have … [Read more...]
Make a Difference – Be a Personal Business Coach!
Every great movement begins as a stirring in the heart of an individual. Whether an entrepreneur, a sales professional or a teacher, each will crystallize a vision, share it and move many to action. Or they will not. The difference depends on their access to a master personal coach. A master personal coach who may be YOU. What makes a Master Personal Business Coach? Well, a personal coach is one who focuses their skills on the betterment of an individual. They may be paid by “the company”. The … [Read more...]
A Successful Personal Fitness Coach Puts Mind over Matter
Being a personal fitness coach isn’t just about understanding diet and exercise. It is all about putting mind over matter. You know this is true if you have ever tried to get in shape or lose a bunch of weight. You set your goal, lay out your plan, and nothing happens. Nothing happens because you have not put the power of your subconscious mind to work. Your Drive for Consistency Makes Fitness Impossible Your subconscious mind is driven to make your life consistent with your self-image. If you … [Read more...]
Leadership Coaching: the Ultimate Transferable Skill!
To be effective at leadership coaching, you must master a body of knowledge and a set of skills that equip you for excellence as a leader, a manager and as an individual contributor. Because you have a comprehensive understanding of the most important aspect of group performance – the inner workings of the human mind – you are equipped to play that most critical role, the catalyst for high performance of the members of a closely knit team. Let’s look further at why becoming a master leadership … [Read more...]
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