Celebrate YOUR Achievements with These 7 Coaching Questions! Graphic (updated)Updated For You to Enjoy & Share! We made this graphic for you, your clients, fans (and for us too!) to celebrate your achievements over the past year - and honour you! What to do: Set aside 20-30 minutes of quiet time. Grab a pen and your journal, a notebook or piece of paper and use these questions to reflect and review how the past year has gone! Give yourself a pat on the back before setting goals and moving into the new year. Think your fans...
Happy Holidays 2017! | With Inspirational Quote from Louise HayWith the holidays almost upon us, I wish for all of us to love and accept ourselves as we are! And here is a beautiful quote from Louise Hay (who passed on in 2017) to help: In the infinity of life where I am, all is perfect, whole and complete, I no longer choose to believe in old limitations and lack, I now choose to begin to see myself as the Universe sees me - perfect, whole, and complete." Louise Hay Happy Holidays to you and yours, with lov...
20 Ways to Celebrate Coaching - and YOU! | By Lynda Monk, MSW, RSW, CPCCAs coaches, we know the powerful impact that acknowledgement, championing and celebrating can have in helping both ourselves and our clients be the best we can be. Equally important is taking time to celebrate YOU, who you are, what you do and who you are becoming. YOU are the tool of your trade as a coach. No matter what kind of coaching you do, or how you serve the coaching community - who you are, how you are doing, how you are feeling, your e...
Get an ENTIRE YEAR (that's 365 Days!) of Ready-to-go Social Media GRAPHICS for Coaches!How would it feel to: LOVE posting on social media? Know you have something beautiful and coachlike to post - every single day for a complete year? Easily find what you have to post? Know that what you share is relevant and interesting to your fans? Generate interest and discussion online and know that your posts are helping people? Be able to bulk-schedule weeks or months of posts at a time, and free you up to work on your business? Be proud of...
3 Simple Strategies To Rock Your Business in 2018 | By Ruby McGuire1. Forget The Quick Fix 6/7 Figure Coaching Business Nonsense One of the hardest things about being a coach today are all of the 'false hopes' portrayed online around how you can build a six-figure business overnight - if you just follow a blueprint. The reality is that there are no quick fixes - businesses take a long time to build. If you want to be successful at anything, whether it's running a marathon, becoming a ninja black-belt in karate,...
7 Things to Consider When You Set Goals with Groups & Teams | By Jennifer BrittonGoal setting is the heart of any coaching process. Whether I'm working with a team or supporting a group, there are several things to keep in mind when working with goals when coaching "many" - a group or a team. This article explores seven considerations when working with goals in any group or team coaching process. #1 - Be Clear On The Focus of The Goal When coaching teams and groups around goals, one of the distinctions to make early on is "Wh...
What are the Challenges of Being a Coach? 30 Negative Effects from Research | by Kerryn Griffiths PhD, PCCEditors Foreword: This article is more technical than usual - with academic research included. It also answers the question, "What do these negative effects this mean for our practice?" and wraps up with 4 practical suggestions. Written by Kerryn Griffiths, whose PhD was on "The Process of Learning in Coaching", this article is from her archives of "Coaching Research in Practice". A significant portion of the coaching research to date has been de...
5 Incredibly Helpful Coaching Questions to Add to Your Toolkit - and Why! | By Ruby McGuireI don't know about you but when I first started out as a coach I was on a never-ending quest to find THE best coaching questions. I would scribble them down when I was reading books, or being coached myself and remember having a HUGE list of questions on paper when I did my first coaching calls. Prior to that there were scraps of paper, post-it notes and index cards all over my desk. I remember complaining to my own coach about it and she could s...
The Skill of Intruding | *AUDIO Podcast* | From Ben Dooley's Coaching Skills ForumThis "Coaching Skills Forum" call from Ben Dooley's Archive helps coaches with a valuable skill - that of intruding! Because with some clients we just can't get a question in edgeways! How DO you "intrude" in a coachlike way? What's the difference between intruding and interrupting? What other reasons might there be for a coach to 'intrude' with a client? Listen to find out 🙂 Ben is a Master Certified Coach, mentor coach - and a popular contribut...
Be Confident INFOGRAPHIC with 11 Ideas and Tips to Be More Confident!With our focus on leadership and confidence this month, we've created this infographic to inspire you—and share. 3 ways to share this graphic on social media and build engagement: EASY: Ask your fans and followers, "Which Tip most applies to you?" or "Which Tip will you try to live more in your life?" MEDIUM: Share the graphic, and include a couple of sentences about your favourite tip - and why! CHALLENGE: Taking each tip in turn, write a few se...
