is a relatively new field that is growing rapidly. This rapid growth has opened up new opportunities for coaches with the knowledge, skills, and desire to help others while helping yourself. The Duties of a Successful Coach * Help assist professionals to develop and refine their leadership skills while helping them reach their career and professional goals. * Help improve personal weaknesses and identify strengths. * Help improve a company’s profitability and ensure managerial … [Read more...]

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...]

In business leadership coaching, there may be no more important contribution than to help a good manager become a good leader. Leadership is about achieving the vision. Management is about maintaining proper controls. We Don’t All Get to Be the King That is to say that everyone doesn’t get to create THE vision. But at each level, the role of the leader is to translate THE vision into a supporting vision that defines how that team will contribute to the overall vision. As the business … [Read more...]

In business leadership coaching, helping your client answer this fundamental question – “Why exactly are we here?” – is one of the most valuable bits of leadership coaching that you can provide. This might not seem necessary, but businesses often lose their sense of direction and forget the answer to this question. This can lead to bad decisions, unhappy employees, dissatisfied customers and financial losses. Mission Statements Should Provide a Cause and Consistency A business’s mission … [Read more...]

Business leadership coaching is one way to help get our economy moving again. Executives and entrepreneurs are stunned. They have lost their confidence. They are waiting for someone to snap them back into action. That someone can be YOU. Three Steps to Business Leadership When you are coaching business leadership, you are helping your client formulate a compelling vision, communicate that vision, and live that vision. As a business leadership coach, you must help your client to set aside … [Read more...]

Business leadership coaching begins by acknowledging that people communicate differently and it's your job to coach your business client so they understand this fact. Your business leadership coaching will help them be more effective with employees, prospects, customers, and their suppliers. Mastering the 4 keys to communication below will help you be far more affective as a business coach. You will be more powerful at enrolling more business coaching clients because you'll know what it is … [Read more...]

Business leadership coaching will be the saving grace for many uprooted workers in the next decade. I say this because of the paradigm shifts caused by outsourcing and the slowing U.S. economy loads of older and unemployed workers need to start their own business or they'll be left holding an empty bag. And you know people who hire a business leadership coach will retool faster and get their leg-up on their competition. Now most economists agree that the next five to ten years in the U.S. … [Read more...]