The new coach is often told that accountability is about getting people to do what they know they should do, but that they don’t want to do. Well that is less than half the story. Unexpected insights can cause a client of strategy coaching or assessment to see themselves in a whole new light that brings lasting change – transformation – so to accountability coaching can bring unexpected insights, lasting change and transformation. Acknowledging a higher Standard Is the Doorway to … [Read more...]
One Challenge and Two Secrets in Success Coaching
The biggest challenge in success coaching is helping your client figure out what it actually means to be a success. Not just to succeed but to succeed ultimately. Clearly, there are a lot of ideas about what success means, and what it doesn’t mean. To make it more complex, these definitions evolve as we move through our lives. Surely, success has something to do with having a goal and achieving it; but there is a lot more to it. Going back to the Basics The first secret in success coaching … [Read more...]
Leadership Coaching: More Impact and More Income
Leaders multiply their impact and value through others. With leadership coaching, you can do the same. Whether in business, public service or sports, we have all seen a group of people transformed from losers to champions with a change of leadership. Interesting, an effective leadership coach can often bring the same result by working with the original leader. The Acid Test of Leadership Effectiveness Leadership is not about titles. Leadership is not even about results. Leadership is about … [Read more...]
Make a Difference: Save Lives with Stress Coaching
As the underlying cause of the greatest killers in America – heart disease, stroke, cancer, alcohol and drug related deaths – stress is public health enemy number one. Through stress coaching, you can have a profound impact on your clients’ life and on turning the tide of this silent killer. Good Stress. Bad Stress. Personally, I am tired of comments on the virtues of “good stress”. You know how it goes: without some stress we lose motivation and wouldn’t get anything done. Fine. But today, … [Read more...]
Breaking the Sense of Isolation for the New Coach
Coaches are often “solopreneurs” so it is easy for them to feel isolated and alone. This is doubly true for the new coach, since they often face isolation combined with moments of self doubt. Here are three steps to build confidence and create a breakthrough that will pay them dividends throughout their entire career. Staying Connected Is Key to Eliminating Isolation Pretty simple, but as we get busy, it is easy to not take the time needed to stay connected. For this reason the new coach must … [Read more...]
Three Musts For Effective Coaching Training
When evaluating coaching training for yourself, make sure you get plenty of these three ingredients: skills matched to real-world needs, scientifically grounded principles, and lots and lots of actual coaching. These could come entirely in a classroom setting, over the internet, or via conference calls. In fact, the best programs are a mix of all three. Just don’t expect to get what you need to be a great coach in three weeks or less, for the bargain price of $999.00. Expect to invest a year and … [Read more...]
Assessment Coaching: Seeing Beyond the Veil
Face it, without assessment coaching, it is a kind of guessing game. Even the best coaches are often engaged in a process of hide and seek with their clients. Whether they are conscious of it or not, clients often hide their true feelings, or the events that form the basis of their behavior. And as a result, coaches are left to “fill in the blanks”. I know It Is Your Dirty Little Secret Yes! It is your dirty little secret. You wish that you had a way to see beyond that veil that even your … [Read more...]
To Specialize or Not: the Dilemma of the New Coach
When you are just starting out as a new coach, it is easy to think that it is best to be open to every possible opportunity no matter what it involves or where it comes from. How can you pass up an opportunity? You are just starting out and, frankly, you could really use the money. So what do you do? Capitalize on Your Experience In a lot of ways your training in coaching, itself, prepares you well for your new career as a coach. But the experiences you have had growing up, or in your earlier … [Read more...]
Coaching and Leadership: What’s the Difference?
Coaching and leadership are skills required of anyone who wants to make a big impact in this world. Leadership involves developing a compelling vision of the future, and sharing that vision in a way that draws followers who become dedicated to turning the vision into a reality. Coaching involves gaining insights into what makes individuals and groups do what they do. It also involves working with people to help them breakthrough barriers that hold them back from achieving their own goals and the … [Read more...]
Mindset Coaching Over Matter
Yes, since it is mind over matter, mindset coaching is the coaching that counts. Period. Even if you are a successful physical fitness coach, you are dealing with their mindset. If you don’t think so, just remember back to the last time a client cried all night for being over-weight, and then had a huge banana split for breakfast. If you ended up doing any good for your client, then you were coaching your client’s mindset. The Fact Is our Mind Drives our Behavior Every human’s mind chooses … [Read more...]
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