One of the things that comes up for new coaches as they start their coaching business… …is that it starts to become hard. Some things in the coaching business are fun… no doubt. But some of the stuff you’ll do in your coaching business is not about having fun. it’s about: …you get the idea. The good news? Most people can handle doing some things that aren’t fun. For example, my wife, Maribel, just came into my office to ask me, “Will you build a website for my … [Read more...]
Coaching Business “Easy Button”
Last week, I asked you the question… “What if your coaching business was easy?” Today, I'm going to give you my ‘goto’ strategies to make hard things easy. Even if you eat hard things for breakfast… EASY has lots of applications… …not just for your coaching business. You can apply ‘easy’ to your client’s, and anyone else’s life. Think about how ‘easy’ applies to: Business / careerFinancesRelationshipsHealthTimeProblemsGoalsEmotions How many of those areas do you think … [Read more...]
Deep Coaching Tutorial
Last week, we talked about ‘going deep’ with your coaching clients. The idea of pushing past the ‘presented problem’ to see something deeper… …something profound, precious, rare .…just like you would dive beneath the surface to see beyond the ‘tip of the iceberg’. HOW do you go deeper with your client? Here’s an example of a coaching model for going deeper. I call it the Iceberg Model: The Iceberg Model encompasses three ‘domains’ of experience. Each domain can emerge … [Read more...]
Shallow VS. Deep Coaching
When you ask your client “What do you want to work on in your session today?” What do they come up with? …an audacious and inspiring goal or challenge? …or a boring, impotent “nothing-burger”? Most coaches eventually run a few ‘shallow’ sessions. Remember the movie Shallow Hal? “Hal” was only interested in how people looked on the surface. It was limiting his love life. Luckily, along came a ‘deep coach’, Tony Robbins (my original mentor and employer)... …who ‘coached’ … [Read more...]
Generosity in The Coaching Business
My details on this are a bit foggy, so I hope I do it justice. I remember when the best selling author of The Miracle Morning hit rock-bottom in his coaching business. After graduating from Master Coach University… …Hal Elrod had built a six figure coaching business with tons of clients. But then he lost most of his clients overnight. He found himself sad, disappointed, and down on himself. His daily activity turned into watching TV… …sulking on the couch… …and feeling … [Read more...]
Selfishness Versus Generosity in Coaching
Today I’m going to admit something about my coaching. Something that I’ve never told anyone in my entire 22 years in the coaching industry. Coaching is a caring profession. Most coaches are willing to give up their time, energy, and money… …to change someone else’s life for the better. Despite that, some of Master Coach University’s most advanced students act pretty selfish: ComplainingGriping about petty grievancesPassing judgment on clients and fellow students Does it seem … [Read more...]
What is a Career Coach?
How do you climb the corporate ladder or reach the next level in your career? A career coach can help you determine the answer. What is a career coach? A career coach helps you to navigate career questions and directions, by: helping you clarify the outcomes that you want in your careeroffering you insights that will enable you to better reach your goalssupporting you throughout your career journey, and even beyond. In this video above and discussion below, you’ll … [Read more...]
What is Executive Coaching?
Most of the ‘big payday’ coaching I’ve done has been helping businesses support their executive leaders through executive coaching. It's often a dynamic coaching relationship with one of the 'movers and shakers' of the world. In this video and discussion below I’m going to talk about what executive coaching is. What is executive coaching? Executive coaching is a dialogue and a process that is there to support results for the scope of an executive’s: PerformanceResults and … [Read more...]
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Best Selling Author of The Platinum Rule, Tony Alessandra — Talks About Personality Styles in Business Coaching [SAMPLE ASSESSMENTS INCLUDED]
In this interview (see the video below) with bestselling author of The Platinum Rule, Tony Alessandra, we discuss personality styles and using psychographic assessments in business coaching. I met Tony at a recent ICF Conference. Watch this interview if: You are a business coach who would like to attract more business coaching clients… You’d like to create so much value in so little time with your current business clients that they’ll follow you anywhere… You want to more deeply … [Read more...]
What Are Coaching Tips?
In the video and discussion below I’m going to explain what coaching tips are, along with a few "levels" of coaching tips. There is a lot of dogma in the coaching world around whether or not a coach should "give advice" (or tips) to clients, and I wrote this to clarify some of those issues. What are coaching tips? Coaching tips are hacks, strategies, or ways to get from A to B. This includes advice, little answers, strategies, or “how-tos” that can support a coach in doing a … [Read more...]
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