Sorry if you are the last to hear, but career coaching has joined that long list of nonsense phrases like guillotine tester – nonsense phrases or titles that simply show a loss of insight or consciousness. You might still be able to squeak by as a job coach, but to be a career coach is one of the greatest oxymorons of this age. Are There no Careers or Is There no such Thing as Coaching? That is a good question: No career? or No coaching? As a coach, I vote for the “no careers” option. But … [Read more...]
Become a Successful Money Coach in Easy Three Steps?
Most people need to learn about money, but being a successful money coach goes way beyond that. The problem is that money is only part of so many agendas. Frankly, a person with a very low income who can’t even add or subtract, but with no money hang-ups, is way ahead of a person with a good income and a degree in accounting who also uses money to act out their frustrations or to inflate their personal identity. And that – forgive me – is the equivalent of a full employment act for effective … [Read more...]
3 Coaching Tips that Guarantee Instant Influence
There are many coaching tips that can be drawn from the science of influence. But while Madison Avenue drinks liberally from the fount of Robert Cialidini – and other scholars of this branch of psychology, few coaches take advantage of this knowledge. Here are three tips that guarantee instant influence and can make a real difference in your clients’ results. Use these Coaching Tips: Develop Commonality to Generate Credibility While our conscious minds focus on differences, our subconscious … [Read more...]
Successful Career Coaching in a No-Jobs World
Career coaching today is helping people make the most of the new world of work, the no-jobs world. Today the idea, that a great career means getting a good job and rising up through the ranks at one corporation, is absolute non-sense. Today, and tomorrow, careers and jobs are not synonymous. And the independent agent is not just king, but may be the last and only one left standing. Life in the Brave New World outside of the Corporate Womb At first glance this might seem like an impossible … [Read more...]
Three Secrets for Successful Depression Coaching
As caring coaches, each of us is called, from time to time, to do depression coaching. And while each of us has been discouraged and even depressed, from time to time, few of us live at the darker side of depression. Far from discouragement, much closer to complete despair, some of our clients have been depressed so long that they have forgotten what it is to feel happy or even to have hope. Yes. Hopeless. Without hope. Nearly empty, but for the pain of despair. For these people, be assured that … [Read more...]
Well for Starters, There Are No Coaching Jobs
That’s right there are no coaching jobs. That is unless you aspire – and by the way this is a noble calling – to be a sports coach at the local high school or community college. That’s right, being a coach is not a job. It’s isn’t even a profession – like being just a doctor. It is a calling. Yes, a Calling, with a capital “C”. Get used to it, because that’s what it is. A Job or a Profession or a Calling – either way, You Are One That’s right, you are one, or you are not. It’s who you are and … [Read more...]
Successful Marketing for Coaches in Three Simple Steps
Marketing is always a hot topic. There is always a lot of “buzz” (a marketing term) about what is the latest, the fastest, the best-est in marketing. In all the tumult, it is easy to be overwhelmed and just shutdown, or even worse, to run around in circles throwing money in all directions. Whenever you, as a coach, are tempted to join the marketing mob, STOP! Take a deep breath. And remember that most of marketing for coaches boils down to three relatively simple steps. Follow them and you … [Read more...]
So just who the hell is YOUR life coach?
That’s right. Who is your life coach? Got an answer? Well here are three good reasons why you had better have a damn good answer to that question – if you ever expect to be a successful coach. Do what I Do – Don’t Waste Your Time Doing what I only Say If you have ever given council to a client, and have them look back at you – look back at you, past your eyes, down deep into your soul – and ask “is that what you would do?” And then you said “Yes.” But it wasn’t what you were actually doing … [Read more...]
Strike It Rich with Business Leadership Coaching
Business leadership coaching can be a goldmine. But only if you can help the leaders and the followers be both happier and richer in the process. Trick is to use the leverage that the leader has over the entire organization to spread your work throughout the organization. Here is how. Leadership Coaching Is all about Leverage It’s leverage and it’s simple. If you help one person get 20% better, that’s a 20% improvement for one person. But if you do that for the leader, of 9 people, then you … [Read more...]
Winning It All with Group Coaching
To win it all with group coaching, you have to get the best for each of your clients and for you. To do this, you have to do the group stuff in groups, and the individual stuff one-on-one. I am talking about optimizing it for each of your clients and for you, as well. That is: better results for each of the members of the group, at a lower individual cost, with more total dollars in your pocket. Sound good? It is. Read on. Group Coaching Is all about Doing the Best for Each Individual … [Read more...]
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