One of the best coaching practices is to master the art of active listening. As a good listener, it’s not enough to be able to parrot back the words the other person is saying. Active listening requires that you demonstrate that you are truly interested in the other person. It’s a necessity in order to establish rapport and in order to get the best possible outcomes for your clients during their coaching sessions. Using Active Listening As Part Of Your Best Coaching Practices • Listen with the … [Read more...]
Lessons For Successful Coaching From A Wooden Puzzle
When I told my husband I was looking for inspiration for a blog on successful coaching, he said “how about this?” and pulled a new wooden puzzle out of his carrier bag. As I watched him take the puzzle apart and work on putting it back together, I realized the puzzle and his approach to it exemplify a great approach to successful coaching so... Successful Coaching Requires Focus and Persistence When working on a puzzle, my husband is a great model for a coach working with a client. Whether … [Read more...]
Successful Coaching Is Turning The Gun On The Coach
is getting through your clients’ thick head that they can’t get a thousand percent boost in their business or life until they see themselves as the lion tamer of getting the results they need from coaching. This means they need to be trained to whip you into shape and get you to perform at the highest level you possibly can so they get the most they possibly can out of coaching with you. You have to turn the tables on the way you think of coaching relationships. Coaching isn’t a one way … [Read more...]
A Coach Disciplines Us Because Of Infantile Behaviors
A coach disciplines us because often times we’re just big whiny cry babies. We cry and kick and scream because we don’t get what we want when we want it. I understand why tiny infants burst into tears because they don’t get what they want and they’re not able to take care of themselves, but I don’t accept it when a fully grown adult coaching client sucks their thumb and stomps their feet about not having what they want in life. As a grown-up life coach, you’ve got to wean yourself off of this … [Read more...]
Life Coach Tips To Start Strong In Every Session
When you're new to coaching, a few key life coach tips can feel like having a life vest on when you are about to go overboard in a stormy sea. If you're a newbie, and even if you're a more experienced coach, it may be a huge challenge to pick up the phone knowing you are the one running the coaching session with an actual client on the other end of the line. The best ways to get past this and start strong on all your sessions are life coach tips that I was lucky enough to get early on in my … [Read more...]
Life Coach Tips For When You Don’t Know What To Do
I keep a little list of life coach tips posted on the wall in my office. It's been up there since I started coaching although I don't use it much anymore. But it helped me out a lot in the past when I got in a panic on a call because I didn't know what to do next. Do you ever find yourself in that situation?Maybe my list of life coach tips will help you out sometime. How Often Do You Ask Yourself These Questions? One particularly scary situation for a new coach happens in your head as least as … [Read more...]
Coaching Techniques: The Power Of Saying What’s On Your Mind
The simplest coaching techniques are often the most effective. If you can say what’s on your mind, you allow your clients to do the same. In fact, if you are wondering something and don’t ask your client you are really ripping them off by staying shallow. Some questions may have a taboo feeling, but unless you get to an emotional level of conversation you won’t be able to transform your coaching clients. These techniques can help you get started. Coaching Techniques To Rock The Boat 1. … [Read more...]
Life Coach Tips For Influencing The Dominant Client
In order to influence your client you need to lead, and there are specific life coach tips to be able to do it effectively. Especially when your life coach client is a driven, high achiever, who is used to leading. You can’t go head to head in battle with these clients, because someone is going to get injured. Even if you win in the moment your coaching relationship will suffer. Here are some tips to help you navigate what can often appear to be dangerous territory. Life Coach Tips To Lead … [Read more...]
Mentor Skills: Wisdom From A TV Reality Competition Coach
Listen in for even the briefest time to any reality competition on television and you will hear the mentor skills of that show’s coach as he demonstrates his coaching strategy. Some of the coaches, like the ones on The Biggest Loser, seem abusive to me. Others, like Dr. Phil, can feel punitive or judgmental. And then there is Tim Gunn, one of my favorite coaches, on Project Runway. Tim isn’t one of the judges. He functions mainly as supervisor and mentor to the competitors, and his mentor … [Read more...]
Life Coach Tips That Will Calm Even An Agitated 2 Year Old
Have you ever met with someone who is downright rude and even though you looked through your life coach tips you couldn’t seem to talk your way out to safety? How much more freedom would you have in your life if you had tips that could get you through the toughest situations? What would it be like if even your family members saw you as a resource and coach? 3 Life Coach Tips That Will Get You From Troubled to Triumphant . 1. One of the least used life coach tips is to just come … [Read more...]
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