How to Use Coaching Tools

Strengths Tool Here Plus extra suggestions to help your clients during COVID! Introduction: What are your clients' unique gifts? What makes them special? The 25 Powerful Questions to Identify Your...

Background: This Action Brainstorming Worksheet exercise is super simple - and can be used in almost any context where you want to brainstorm a list of actions! The 5 questions on this worksheet are open,...

Have you ever thought of using oracle cards in your business? When I first heard about using cards in coaching I was very intrigued. Joanna Hennon, a friend who taught me about it, said you could use them...

Do you ever use poetry in your coaching? Poetry has a way of speaking to us, of connecting to something deeper inside us - closer to the heart or soul. Poetry can set us thinking, sometimes long after we have...

A while ago, a .pdf of this tool was our holiday gift to our newsletter readers. We had so much interest in this tool that we updated and improved it - so people can buy, brand and use it with their...

  The "Wheel of Life" may be 'old hat' to many of us, but it's endlessly flexible. Did you know that the categories we use on the Life Balance Wheel can be used to help make decisions on everything...

I am often asked "What is a SWOT Analysis?" Well, I've been using it for decades and it's one of my favourite tools! In fact, when I started The Coaching Tools Company in 2008, the Personal SWOT (for...

How often have you seen clients more excited by the prospect of a new home, high powered job, brand new car or designer pair of shoes than the thought of quality time with a child, partner or friends? When...

We all want our clients to be satisfied (or thrilled!) with our coaching - and this means they need to feel like they're making progress. So, it's important for coaches to keep track of, and remind...

The Wheel of Life can be customised to an individual client's situation in a surprising number of ways. In this article we look at using the Wheel in Career, Executive or Business coaching (although other...