In coaching more than 5,000 leaders of fast-growing organizations, I sit beside corporate leaders as they have major breakthroughs – and major breakdowns. As a former executive myself, I’ve also been in their shoes. Here’s what I’ve learned about coaching executives.
Changing the World One Authentic Conversation at a Time
Staying Present
Coaches often share with me the struggle of maintaining the duality of “present”. That is, the challenge of staying simultaneously present themselves as they co-creatively work to find that same state with their client. I would offer that coaches need to think about...
Credibility and Professionalism
How important are credentials? Do your clients expect you to be a certified coach? Will being certified make you a better coach? Will you need to be licensed at some point? These are all valid questions and each will generate a variety of responses depending on whom...
Your Brand, Your Promise
What’s your promise? The answer: Your brand. Your brand is an organizer for everything you do, for every connection with potential clients and readers, including website, blog, articles. Your brand triggers meaning and connections; it carries its own value....
Like Minded People Create Magic
Being strategic is vital in business and too in our personal lives. Here is a principle which governs this; to anticipate doing significant acts, you must position yourself to immediately take action.
Connecting with Like Minded People who Make a Difference
Did you know that it is impossible to achieve significance alone? The “Law of Significance” states that one person is too small a number to achieve any type of greatness.
The Allure of Chaos
Those born to the storm find the calm very boring. Dorothy Parker What is the most common addiction we have as humans? The magnetic pull we predictably will return to, no matter how good our lives are? We rationally desire peace and stability, yet paradoxically have...
Self-Talk: The Silent Story of Optimal Performance
A study of Olympian gold medalists found two traits, in addition to deliberate practice, that set super achievers apart: complete confidence, combined with self-talk to create that total confidence.
Living a Purposeful Life
Are you living your life the way you want to? Do you love the life you are living? If you live your life in an intentional, purposeful way, you control how you want to live and feel, every moment of every day.
8 Ways to Continue Learning after Education Is Over
When I coach executives and self employed business people to develop their success skills, they come to know themselves and others better. As they have worked to learn human dynamics, they have used the following strategies to enhance their growth and continue their education.
3 Simple and Loving Behaviors
Feelings are the barometer of our outside existential lives. Feelings let us know how things are going for us inside ourselves. They are not good or bad; helpful or not helpful; constructive or not so constructive. Feelings exist because they do, in and of themselves.
Check Your Fuel Gauge
As coaches, we understand the effectiveness and value of the authentic connection with a client. This is coaching from center -or- coaching from our “core.” A coach’s own being -the core- is the primary coaching tool. This core is our vehicle to client...
This is Possible
The future is coming and there’s nothing you can do to stop it. Your goals may take some work. Worthy goals usually do. You can either take action now; accomplish these goals and enjoy the rewards -or- you can still be putting them off, five years from now, because they take too long to achieve.
What Single Clients Really Want
One of the unique things about being a relationship coach and working with singles is that there’s frequently a wide gap between the reason clients hire me initially and what they actually get out of the coaching process.
My One Word
Many people are moving from resolutions to the idea of choosing one word to define, inspire, refresh or motivate a change they are looking for in the year ahead.
Coaching Success Strategies
Coaching is only beginning to be discovered by professionals in legal, financial, medical, and architectural arenas. These practicing professionals tend to be highly and specifically trained at what they do, think rigorously and want active collaboration. They have in...
There Are 4 Kinds of Business Coaches. Find Out Which One You Need
The type of business coach you need depends on what are you trying to fix. Follow this guide:
Coach Training Alliance Launches Online “Coach Training Accelerator™”
Jan. 13, 2016 – PRLog — Fort Collins, Colorado – January 13, 2016 – Coach Training Alliance (CTA), the market leader in providing accredited coaching tele-classes, continues to expand and deliver with the launch of their new online self-study classroom for...
Professional Coaching May Not Need Selling But Don’t Forget the Sales
In my experience, new coaches struggle with the concept of selling. Most of my coach certification students have had a lot of experience with giving away their coaching services free of charge – they have been the “go-to” person to whom family,...
Intellectual Property
by Dr. Jackie Black Intellectual Property (IP) is just a fancy way to identify your good ideas that would be helpful and valuable to others. And BusinessDictionary.com explains that IP is documented or undocumented knowledge, creative ideas, or expressions of human...
The Longest Relationship of Your Life
You’re writing a story that you may not know how to fully tell. It’s a very personal story with its own history and language. It’s highly visible to others but often not to you. As Loren Eiseley observed in The Unexpected Universe, “Reality has...
What Are The Benefits Of Coaching Groups?
As you know, one-on-one coaching is not the best way to leverage your time or your earning potential as a coach. Plus, in these economic times, not everyone can afford you one-on-one. Coaching Groups is the solution – By charging less for each participant in the...
How Do You Listen?
Many people define listening as sitting quietly, while another person talks. Most are surprised to learn that listening is actually a 2-way, circular process. Effective Life Coaches understand the listening process, have mastered the techniques well, and employ...
The Answer is Group Coaching
The Question Is… What is a legitimate coaching business model, that only takes the same marketing effort as one new one-to-one client, that leverages your time and your earning potential, and is highly profitable? That’s right! Group Coaching! We...
