How Serious IS Your Client About Their Goals? 5 Quick Tests!

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Especially when our clients have BIG goals in mind, it’s important to help set them up for success by exploring if they really want their goal – and how committed they are. Also, sometimes with big goals, it’s easy to lose our enthusiasm somewhere along the way.

So, whether you have a client just starting out or whether they’ve just lost their way a little, here are 5 quick tests to explore how serious your client REALLY is about their goals! THE SIMPLE COMMITMENT TEST: A great place to start is to be totally obvious and ask, “So, how Read More…

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March 15th, 2013 | Tags: Gaining Commitment, Goal Ecology, Goal Outcomes | Category: Clarifying, Coaching Questions, Coaching Tips, Gaining Commitment, Goal-Setting, Raising Awareness, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

New Year, New Look: And Tools NOW just $9.95 each!

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Thank-you, Thank-you, Thank-you. For your continued support and encouragement, for your feedback and suggestions and for your kind and generous personal emails letting us know how much you love our free coaching tools, articles and products. It really keeps me going.

So, in our two surveys that we did last year – one in May and another in November – you told us:

You thought our pricing was good value – but it could be better. You liked our Value Toolpacks, but would prefer fewer tools at a lower price. As well as our current Read More…

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January 27th, 2013 | Category: Uncategorized | 6 comments

Coaching Questions 101: 10 Powerful Questions to Unblock Your Clients!

Who doesn’t love powerful questions? Well if you’re at all like me, you’ll get excited when you find a great new coaching question to add to your collection.

So, here are 10 (13 actually!) powerful coaching questions to unblock your clients!

What do you NOT want me to ask you? Imagine for a moment that your issue is resolved. How did you get there? So, what do you think you’re SECRETLY afraid of, that’s getting in the way of ________ ? a. What are you ready to change? b. What are you NOT ready to change YET? What haven’t you Read More…

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July 6th, 2012 | Tags: Getting Unstuck, Powerful Questions | Category: Challenging, Coaching Questions, Coaching Tips, Questioning, Raising Awareness, Uncategorized | 3 comments

How to: Add Your Branding to our Coaching Tools & Exercises!

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Something that came up a few times in our latest survey was that people wanted to know how to add their branding to our coaching tools. It’s easy. And if you already know how to use headers and footers – then it will be even easier. Let’s start from the beginning.

If you haven’t done this before, or just to be safe, make a copy of the tool you’d like to add your details to and give it a different name – perhaps add ‘original’ Read More…

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June 29th, 2012 | Tags: Technical How-tos | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Want to WIN our Entire Coaching Tools Catalogue? For your chance, just answer our Short Survey!

THIS SURVEY IS NOW CLOSED! Thank-you to everyone who completed it – we have some awesome responses and are excited to review and plan changes as a result of what you told us!

Hi there lovely blog readers,

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June 4th, 2012 | Tags: Surveys | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Coaching Tools 101 - The GROW Model as the ULTIMATE Coaching Tool, Questions and Why it Always Works!

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There are many, many different coaching models out there but I still haven’t found anything that beats the GROW model for simplicity, effectiveness and results. If you embrace the GROW model – your clients will love you and you’ll never lose track in a coaching session again.

So, you probably use the GROW model (or T-GROW) without even realizing it:

T – Topic (Session Topic) G – Goal (Session Goal) R – Reality (Where they are and what’s going on for them) O – Options (Ideas and brainstorming – what they COULD do to move forwards) W – Read More…

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May 21st, 2012 | Tags: Coaching Basics, GROW, Grow Model, Session Goals, T-GROW | Category: Accountability, Action-setting, Brainstorming, Coaching Models, Coaching Questions, Coaching Techniques, Coaching Tips, Feelings & Emotions, Running a Session, Uncategorized | 8 comments

We want to know how to help you more!

Hi there,

This survey is now closed. You responded amazingly! Thank-you all for your time – we really appreciate it and once we’ve reviewed the results – we’ll be making changes to help you more!

Interested in the results? Check them out: Our First Ever Survey Results – We Asked How Can We Help You More?

We will also summarise your responses on the blog for you soon so you can see what everyone has been saying.

If you read our blog or get our newsletter – we’d love to know what you think – and how we can help Read More…

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April 11th, 2012 | Tags: Surveys | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment