One of the best ways to make a name for yourself in the coaching industry, and make money, is to find a niche coaching business. Finding the right niche for your talents and experience is the key to success. When deciding on a niche coaching business, try to find one that is somewhat unique or exists as an unsaturated market. Selecting a segment of coaching with a relatively large pool of potential clients also helps boost the profit potential. One niche that has the potential for growth … [Read more...]
Walking the Razor’s Edge as a Personal Coach
Being a personal coach is often filled with stresses, problems, and issues: Marketing for clients Paying the bills Trying to find enough time in the day to balance work, all the energy you give your clients, and a personal life Being a coach can be a pain in the… neck! The Fine Line Between The Problems of Personal Coaching And The Joys of Personal Coaching Coaches walk a "razor’s edge" every day in search of meaning and success. Coaches want a life and career that means … [Read more...]
Make Group Coaching Your Time Adding Results Machine
Group Coaching makes some coaches and clients nervous. I’m not exactly sure what it is about sharing our deepest desires with a group of people that makes us sweat and shake. Do you think it’s simply the fear of judgment? I have to admit stepping out from the sacred space of my one on one sessions and onto that conference line with a group of people awaiting my coaching left me feeling a little queasy at first too. The pleasure quickly took over and the feeling I just jumped off a high cliff … [Read more...]
How to Build An Executive Coaching Career By Delivering Happiness
Here you go: Tony Hsieh, the CEO of Zappos.com, probably wasn't thinking of building an executive coaching career when he Zappos was in its infancy, but he sure developed a great strategy for building a winning team. I recently had the opportunity to tour the corporate offices in Las Vegas. Had I not seen the culture with my own eyes, it would have been hard to believe that this was the same company that grew from $0 to $1.2 billion in 10 years. Executive Coaching Career Secrets That I Stole … [Read more...]
Coaching Communication Competence: Hearing and Listening
To paraphrase something a Greek philosopher once said, something that is vitally important for coaching communication competence; we have two ears and only one mouth - we should be listening twice as much as we speak. The #1 Tip to be an Superstar Coach Listen. Yes, the most important, numero uno, top dog of all skills to learn if you want to be the greatest coach of all time, is to listen. Ok, the greatest coach of all-time was a bit of hyperbole, but if you listen, you will be a very … [Read more...]
Football, Ballet, and Sales Training Coaching
Whether in sport or dance or sales training coaching is what gets you past the theory, out of the classroom and into reality. Like sport and dance, sales is a performing art. The terrific thing is that, like sport and dance, sales is all about results, so the training coach’s worth is all about the results that they help produce on the field or on the stage or in the boardroom, which means that if you are good you can make a lot of money! Just what is a training coach? To me it is someone who … [Read more...]
You Ask, “Do I become a Life Coach?” We Help You Decide
“Do I become a life Coach?” How many times have you pondered this question without knowing how to make the decision on your own? We want to help you decide. Is this your next big move in your professional career. Often times when we are trying to make a big decision we decide to focus on the pros and cons. To help you answer the question “Do I become a life Coach?” I decided to interview a professional coach and ask him about his list of pros and cons. We interview a working life coach to help … [Read more...]
How to Get Coaching Clients: Freebies
How to get coaching clients is one of the most commonly asked questions by new coaches. All coaches, experienced or rookie, want to learn more about how to get coaching clients. The secret to being successful is to get more clients. But, how do you do that? There are many ways to market for more clients, but one of the best ways is on the Internet. People will find your website, read about how wonderful and extraordinary you are, and immediately sign up for your services, right? Not really. … [Read more...]
Don’t Become a Lifecoach
If you want to work a nine-to-five job, don’t become a lifecoach. If you enjoy sitting in cubicles, pounding away on a keyboard or looking at business reports, don’t even think about becoming a coach. The coaching profession is not for people who want to be told what to do. Do you want a boss who berates you or gives you busy work just to wield his power? If so, stay away from the coaching profession. Do you enjoy the monotony of routine? Don’t become a lifecoach. Enjoy doing the same … [Read more...]
What is Online Coaching? Good Question!
Rather than being cute about what online coaching is, let’s just look at a few ways that a coach can generate business and deliver services over the internet. To make this most useful, I am going to be pretty broad in my definition of the internet. Finding Clients Online The idea is actually to be “findable” online. To do this you need to create a presence online and use key words and pay per click advertising, so when people are looking for the solution to their problem, you pop-up. Notice it … [Read more...]
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