The Best of 2024: Most Popular Articles, 10 Most Loved Free Resources, Top Products & More!...ng the industry include the integration of AI and digital tools, a rise in niche coaching (e.g., AI, resilience, wellness), and a strong focus on measurable ROI, with coaching delivering an average 7x return on investment. Emotional intelligence and mental well-being have increasingly become central to coaching (and much more explicitly so than in the past), especially for leadership development and Executive Programs. After COVID sent everyone on...
The Quiet Power of Mentorship in a Coach’s Journey | by Dr Steve Jeffs...n between these levels? In the early days, it might be uncertainty, around niche, messaging, or where to find clients. Perhaps you're navigating the complexity of coaching in organisations, or you've landed your biggest client yet – and feel a little overwhelmed. Later, the challenges shift. You may need to build more systems to support your coaching, or perhaps you are looking to scale. Or, perhaps you just feel stuck with a client or project. Co...
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Our First Ever Survey Results - We Asked How Can We Help You More?First of all, THANK-YOU! Your comments and suggestions have been EXTREMELY helpful - and we look forward to implementing many of them soon, some right away! So, without further ado, here's what you had to say! 1. So what kind of coaching do you do? (bearing in mind you could tick more than one box): 72% of you identified as Life Coaches 28% as Executive Coaches 28% as Business Coaches 24% as Career Coaches 21% as Spiritual Coaches 19% as Parent o...
10 Tips to Grow Your Coaching Business in 2025Growing your coaching business isn’t just about strategy, it’s also deeply personal. It’s about choosing aligned actions over hustle. Holding your vision steady, even when self-doubt creeps in. And building a business that reflects who you are, not just what you do. Recently, in a team conversation, we found ourselves asking: What’s really working for coaches right now? What’s shifting? And what are the most powerful ways to grow, without burning...
Why Coaching Works! by Barry Switnicki, MCC, M.EdEver wonder how coaching matches up to all those other models of helping people? There have been lots and lots of studies of different types of therapy and what works. Here are some explanations from Michael Lambert and Scott Miller based on 40 years of outcome data. Have a look at the following pie chart and explanations. Michael J. Lambert, Ph.D., a researcher doing meta research i.e. analyzing data from studies of therapy effectiveness, conclu...
3 Easy Ways to Use the Wheel of Life to Evaluate RelationshipsThe "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 from life partners to new careers? And that a Blank Wheel can be used to help evaluate decisions? IMPORTANT: These exercises are intended to be used with individual clients to help them understand themselves and their relationships. These suggestions are...
ICF Credentialing and the Benefits of Coach Mentoring | By Barry Switnicki MCC, M.EdSo, you have decided to "bite the bullet" and become credentialed through the International Coach Federation. Congratulations! If you are taking what the ICF consider an Accredited Coach Training Program (ACTP), it will have a built-in coach mentoring component providing trained and experienced mentors that are approved by the ICF. It's still a wise move to find out the credentials, training and experience of the mentors. See the 12 Step Checklis...
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...
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...
