Finding a niche in the coaching field is becoming increasingly important as more people enter the field; an interesting and potentially rewarding niche to consider is psychological career counseling. Individuals training to be life coaches, career coaches, and executive coaches are making the coaching profession one very crowded place. That is why the search for a niche within the coaching industry is important to your own career success. Thinking of a good niche - how about psychological career … [Read more...]
Is Personality Coaching a Part of Life Coaching?
Life coaching is about helping clients achieve their goals and dreams by asking questions and helping create a road map to these goals, but can it also be about personality coaching? As a life coach, are you also a personality coach? Do you delve into personality traits and attempt to analyze, dissect, and correct them? What is Personality Coaching? Coaching someone's personality is mostly about giving feedback and then offering suggestions to help a client, for lack of better words, … [Read more...]
Mental Health Coaching – 10 Steps to a Better Attitude
Mental health coaching is a niche of the coaching field that borders on therapy. Though a mental health coach is not a therapist and does not treat mental disorders, good coaches can help their clients see the world in a new way, turn pessimism into optimism, and think with a glass-half-full attitude instead of a glass half-empty attitude. Mental Health Coaching Works Though people with mental disorders or conditions need a trained therapist, there are many people who merely need to alter … [Read more...]
Making It BIG in Psychology Executive Coaching!
If you want to have a big impact and make the big bucks, psychology executive coaching may be your ticket. Executives command big salaries and big stock packages, and their performance has a big influence on the whole organization. They are the impact players, and you can be the impact coach. Here are two keys to success in this specialized field, plus a couple of caveats. Do You Know Your Stuff? Can Your Client Tell? Let’s start with the caveats. First if you want to be successful at … [Read more...]
The International Coaching Psychology Review: Reading For Coaches
The International Coaching Psychology Review is a publication issued by the Special Group in Coaching Psychology (SGCP). The SGCP was originally established to help psychologists share research and practical experiences related to the psychology of coaching. As the organization evolves, it is beginning to not only focus on psychologists but to also concentrate on coaches who utilize psychology in their coaching. The International Coaching Psychology Review is one of two publications issued by … [Read more...]
Is a Psychology Coach a Psychologist?
A question that always comes up from people interested in becoming a coach is: What is the difference between a psychology coach and a psychologist? The answer to this question falls into three areas: focus, training, and regulation. These are important distinctions with legal implications. Coaches Are Future Focused In general, a psychology coach is future focused. They want to know where you are, where you want to be, and how to get you there. They don’t look into the past. They don’t really … [Read more...]
What is Positive Psychology Coaching?
Positive psychology coaching – what is it and how does it work? Let's define positive psychology first to arrive at a definition of positive psychology coaching. It is basically the study of the strengths and weaknesses that allow individuals and communities to survive and thrive. As you can tell, this type of psychology aligns itself perfectly with the coaching profession. Both fields start with the assumption that people are resourceful, dedicated to improvement, and motivated to … [Read more...]
Review: Coaching Psychology Manual
If you want to be, are training to be, or already are a wellness coach, you should get your hands on a copy of Coaching Psychology Manual, by Margaret Moore and Bob Tschannen-Moran. Coaching Psychology Manual is designed to be a comprehensive guide for wellness coaches and those looking to get into the field. It comes complete with specific examples and real-life scenarios that can be studied and applied in your wellness coaching practice. Who Will Benefit From the Coaching Psychology … [Read more...]
The Little Red Coaching Psychology Manual: It’s About How You Say It
If there was such a thing as the Little Red Coaching Psychology Manual, the first chapter would start off with, "It's not what you say, but how you say it." Here are some tips that should be in the even the most concise coaching psychology manual. 3 Tips To Connecting Through Language "You" is usually the best way to address someone. "We" can sound placating and condescending. Didn't you hate it when teachers said something like, "Class. We better line up quickly and quietly if we don't … [Read more...]
Breaking the Cycle, Key to Stress Coaching Success
There is a great scene in the movie The Last Samurai that has a strong lesson for stress coaching. In this scene, a young Japanese archer tells the Western hero, Nathan Algren, that the reason he cannot beat the samurai in sword fighting is that “he has too many minds.” One mind is wheeling the sword. One mind is aware of the mind wheeling the sword. And one and many more minds each being aware of those minds being aware. There are few situations more threatening than being at the wrong end … [Read more...]
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