Articles For Coaches
For those of you who already have a coaching practise, we have gathered together a collection of advice, tips and thought-provoking articles on all aspects of providing a coaching service, including everything from coaching skills and the ethics of coaching, through marketing and keeping accounts, to making mistakes!
General Interest
Coaching Clients To Meaningful Daily Lives
We all have commitments as citizens of our communities and of our world. However, we are all different and we need to find your own way and this is how it is for our clients. “One size fits all” as they say, does not apply here.
Ethics of Coaching
Be Careful Of "The Law Of Attraction"
Many coaches are fascinated by the law of attraction and using it in their coaching repertoire.
Business Coach: Are Your Ethics And Business Results Connected?
There are too many coaches out there looking for a fast buck.
Coaching Trends
Business Coaching to Executive Coaching - The Times Are Changing
What are the trends for business coaching or executive coaching in 2007? Are you prepared for these changes?
Will You Be A Statistic As A Coach?
Executive coaching and business coaching industry is now estimated to be over $1 billion annually with an anticipated growth rate of 40%. And the business failure rate appears to be growing just as fast.
Difficult Clients
How To Coach The Client That Thinks They Know It All
Everyone comes up against the nightmare client at some stage. Here are some tips on coping with the client who thinks he knows it all!
Don't Let Your Clients Deskill You
People hire advisors because they’re seeking dramatic change, and often they need a significant lift simply to survive in business or in their personal lives. Desperate, they reach out for help with one hand while trying to submerge their rescuers with the other. When you sense your clients are deliberately or unintentionally deskilling you, tell them in clear terms. If they won’t reform on the spot, withdrawing from the assignment may be the best way to save your integrity.
Your Coaching Business
Is Your Coaching Business as Successful as You Thought It Would Be?
Coaches setting up in business for the first time are just as likely to fail as other small businesses out there. What you can do to succeed?
Grow Your Leadership Coaching Business
Leadership coaching is of critical importance in this age of speed and instant results.10 years ago, coaching a leader on the basic elements of leadership was viewed as unnecessary. After all, everyone knows this stuff, right?
Telephone Or Face To Face Coaching?
The advantages and disadvantages of virtual coaching and face to face coaching discussed.
How To Choose The Right Coaching Niche
As the number of life coaches increases daily, the need to be specialised, to be different, becomes more and more a necessity. So, how can you find your unique niche? Just listen inside to who you really are. Simply tune in..
Discovering Your Coaching Niche
With more coaches in business than ever before, it is more important than ever to specialise and discover your coaching niche. This article discloses four "secrets" that may help you to discover yours.
Why I Chose To Become A Business Coach
One coach's explanation of the thought processes he went through when deciding whether to be a business coach or a life coach.
Marketing Your Coaching Business
Finding Time For Marketing: How To Have Time To Market As Well As Deliver Your Coaching Services
How do coaches find time to market when we are busy delivering our coaching services? My research indicates that this one of the biggest problems faced by coaches who are beginning to get clients.
How To Get More Clients
Some exellent tips on marketing your coaching services.
Coaching Skills
Powerful Questions
One of the most dynamic aspects of coaching is the powerful question. If well timed and phrased, a question can bring about dramatic shifts in perspective, attitude and clarity for the client. It can draw out a client’s wisdom or uncover valuable data. It can elevate passion and motivate clients to action. It can even illuminate something for the coach.
Crossing Thresholds
Entrepreneurial coaches experience many "firsts" or cross many thresholds - moments in time where we cross a gap between unknown and known experience - especially if this is their first business venture. Passing through a threshold may require staring down doubt, arming our selves with information, or passing some other kind of self-initiation before moving through.
Coaching A Perfect 10
A tip for bringing out the best in a shy or introverted client, encouraging them to give full answers with some clever questions.
A Great Coach In Action
An illustrative story based on the author's experiences with a colleague at the Harvard Business School.
Targets For Coaches
Here are five goals (or targets) designed specifically for coaches. Each of them is intended to move you and your business forward.
Coaching Presence
It is impossible to overestimate the importance of Coaching Presence as the foundation of all great coaching.
Coffee Machine Coaching
The best time to coach is when it is needed, not the last Tuesday of every month. The best coach is the person you respect and feel comfortable with, and this person could well be a member of your team, your manager, or someone in another part of the company you can call upon for support when needed.
Problems and Mistakes
Disempowering Clients - An Unintended Result
All human beings make mistakes, and coaches are no exception. Sometimes in our quest to help others we might inadvertantly disempower our clients and assume too much of the responsibility for their lives. What can you do if you find that this is happening?
Accreditation and Licensing
Why The Movement To License Business Coaches To Executive Coaches?
During a mastermind group discussion, several of the members (all who are business coaches) mentioned a movement among psychologists to license those involved in the coaching industry, including Business Coaches, Corporate Coaches, Executive Coaches, Life Coaches and Transition Coaches...
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