In a very real way, becoming a coach is a calling. I was a coach long before I completed my formal coaches training. Most successful coaches were. So Look for these clues to help you decide if you should become a coach. Do You Genuinely Want People to Become Their Very Best? To become a coach, you must genuinely care about people, but not in a “frou-frou” “touchy-feely” way. You have to be willing to get in your client’s face and not let them off the hook. You need to get them in a corner and … [Read more...]
3 Great Coaching Questions For When Clients Get Stuck
Coaching questions are your stock and trade in the coaching profession. Unless you are more the consultant type of coach, you probably spend much of your session time asking questions. There are questions about goals, about challenges, about wins, about commitments kept or broken. You name it, a coach has questions. But what do you do when your client runs into a thought roadblock and just doesn't have an answer? Here are some mind-benders that just might open up the roadblock. A Coaching … [Read more...]
Become A Coach Clients Flock To By Always Having This
If you had to pick one quality or virtue you must have when you become a coach, what would you pick? Would it be honesty? Compassion? Business savvy? Well, for me the one indispensable quality is integrity. Without it, the services of the most knowledgeable, compassionate guru coach in the world will just make you feel like you need to take a shower. So What Is Integrity Really? Integrity comes from the Latin word for wholeness or completeness. It has several meanings, including acting … [Read more...]
The 3 Worst Things About Becoming A Coach
Becoming a coach is a popular option for a lot of people in the current economy. And being a coach has a lot of great benefits. You can make a living doing something you love. You have a chance of being the next Jack Canfield. Maybe you just really want to help people with some problem you've already conquered in your own life. Whatever benefits you are looking for, there are some things you should know about what it can be like becoming a coach that are not so positive. Isolation Can Be A … [Read more...]
3 Keys To Life Success Coaching For Procrastinators
Procrastination is often an issue during life success coaching. A client may come into coaching because she is unhappy with the level of success she is achieving. Or maybe, her life isn't as fulfilling as she would like. Perhaps she has a plan for a business she wants to start or a weight loss goal that she just can't seem to get off the ground. Procrastination is often to blame and may be the “presenting complaint”, as they say in the medical profession. Procrastination Can Be Related To … [Read more...]
Success Coaching and the Inner Game
Success coaching must address the three factors that govern our success in any contest, whether in business or in athletics. They are the Inner Game, the Outer Game and Action. The Three Factors that Lead to Success or Failure The term Inner Game refers to “what goes on in our heads” or our belief systems about ourselves and the contest in which we are engaged. Outer Game refers to those things outside of our belief systems. This includes our physical condition, skills and knowledge of the … [Read more...]
Inner Game Coaching From Harry Potter’s Mentor
Inner game coaching isn't something that most clients know they need when they first come to a coach. A client often gets into coaching because he has some goal or another that he just can't seem to accomplish. Or maybe she is just unhappy about something or someone in her life. Wherever the client may think the blame lies, as his coach, you need to know the same things that Professor Dumbledore knew: one, that your client created his own worst enemy, and two, how to defeat that enemy. Creating … [Read more...]
Life Success Coaching: Changing A Negative Identity
To be successful long term, life success coaching involves identifying your client's limiting beliefs early on in your work with her. Of course, that is only the first step. Once the two of you have gotten very clear on her goals and on the beliefs that are getting in her way, you want to help her find and take on better, more empowering beliefs. When the limiting beliefs include an identity belief—one that starts “I am.....”, the challenge of making that shift becomes even more dramatic. As a … [Read more...]
Personal Development Coach? Do This For Client Success
As a personal development coach, you have a lot of ground to cover with your clients. Personal development coaching and personal growth coaching are umbrella terms. Because of that clients can come to you for help in taking action on anything from health challenges to relationships to planning for business development and growth. Whatever the specific focus of any given client, as a personal development coach your first and most important task is getting your client into a consistently empowered … [Read more...]
3 Saboteurs To Overcome As A Life Success Coach
As a life success coach, you take your client through a series of steps on the way to reaching his goals. No matter what your particular process is, most likely you work with your client to develop a strategy and action steps. Then, of course, your client has to take those steps in order to have the success he wants in his life or work. So why is it that so often he doesn't take the actions? What gets in his way? Sabotage From The Outside Every one of us faces all kinds of external saboteurs. … [Read more...]
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