8 Career Coaching Tools & Ideas for Clients Who Have Absolutely No Idea What They Want!Do you have a client who wants a new career but has absolutely no idea where to start? If so, this article is for you! Because Career Coaching Tools and Exercises are excellent resources to help our clients figure out where next! IMPORTANT: There are no career coaching tools that give us a magic wand! But there are super-helpful Career Coaching Tools and Exercises that provide self-knowledge and information that move our clients forwards... And y...
5 Surprisingly Easy Tips To Get Focused & Be More Productive (GRAPHIC)It's always a good time to get focused on our lives and businesses. And it can be helpful to have some fresh new productivity tips to try, so enjoy! Here are 5 Tips to Help you Focus, Be Happier and More Productive: Which of the 5 productivity tips and ideas below most appeals to you? Pick one and action it tomorrow - or even now... NOTE: Want to share JUST the infographic (and not this whole article)? Right-click (or Ctrl+Click on a Mac) to save...
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...
4 Practices to Bring Journaling into Your Workshops & Groups | by Lynda Monk MSW, RSW, CPCCWriting Alone Together: The Benefits of Journal Writing in Workshops & Groups Journaling is one of my favourite activities to bring into my workshops, training programs and group coaching. Whether done on our own or in groups with others, expressive journal writing can be healing, creative and transformational. And while we may write alone, journal writing is relational by nature, supporting us to deepen our relationship with ourselves, others an...
The Coaching Tools Company.com September 2016 News Summary!Hello all, I hope September is going well for you all and that you're all settled back in after the holidays. So, what's happened so far in September? What's coming up? In the Media: Emma-Louise got interviewed by John Mattone, one of the world's top leadership authorities and speakers, for his Expert Interview Series. She was asked about coaching tools, the company, leadership, coaching, the future direction of careers and more. Read here: Exper...
Creative Coaching: Tools, Tips and Techniques - published in choice MagazineThe recent issue of choice Magazine was all about Creativity in Coaching, Tools, Tips and Techniques! And Emma-Louise Elsey's has the featured article! "Creative Coaching: Tools, Tips and Techniques" by Emma-Louise Elsey Published in choice Magazine, Volume 14, Number 4 Included in this article: what is a coaching tool, 10 types of coaching tools & exercises, how coaching tools help your clients, the benefits of coaching tools for the coach and m...
Visualize Success in 6 Easy Steps with this Meditation Process! | By Sura KimEmpower your clients to visualize their success through this 6-step meditation guide Meditation is a practice that can help you tap into our deepest desires. When you take the time to slow down and be quiet, you can visualize more clearly what you want to create. As coaches, you can facilitate this process for your clients and guide them to achieve their most important goals. When the mind is full of thoughts and stories, its like a rippling lake...
7 More Career Coaching Tools and Ideas for Clients Who Have Absolutely No Idea What They Want!This is Part 2 of the article 7 Career Coaching Tools & Ideas for Clients who have absolutely no idea what they want! And here are 7 MORE Career Coaching Tools and Ideas For the client who wants a new career—but has absolutely no idea where to start! 1) 'Future' Self Exercises and Inquiries Part 3 (Parts 1 and 2 can be found here) A final idea is to ask clients to write out what an ideal work day would look like. The more detail they go into the...
10 Inspiring and Awesome Coaching Quotes ABOUT Coaching! [for you to share]These quotes were created for you to share during International Coaching Week - but can be used at ANY time to share what's great about coaching! It's hard to find great quotes about coaching! But we did some research and chose these 10 quotes, making them into beautiful graphics for coaches to share during ICF International Coaching Week. Here at The Coaching Tools Company, our mission is to inspire coaches and help spread the positive impact of...
4 Things to Do When Your Client Finds Meditation Really Hard | By Ruby McGuireI remember when I was first told about meditation: "You just sit there for 10 minutes, let your thoughts come up and not get attached to them". 10 minutes? Are you kidding me? What was I supposed to actually 'do' for 10 minutes? "Try listening to a guided meditation if you find it hard for your mind to be quiet", they said. Quiet mind? Have you been inside my head? Instead I said, "Okay, I'll listen to a guided meditation, I'll give it a go." Aft...
