Coaching Quote of the Day 18th December 2011
“If you see a friend without a smile; give him one of yours.”
(Proverb)
Yearly Archives: 2011
12 Days of Coaching Resources – Day 4 1
Day 4 in our 12 days of coaching resource is:
The One Page Business Plan: The fastest, easiest way to write a business plan by Jim Horan
Coaches often refer to goals/objectives and work towards achieving a vision with their clients. Granted, depending upon your background and the situation you are using that language you may use different labels with your clients.
So you may expect coaches establishing a business to comfortably create a business plan that focuses upon things such as the business vision, mission and objectives. Yet several “myths”and perceptions about how a business plan “should” look or be created can get in the way.
Today’s coaching resource is, “The One Page Business Plan: The fastest, easiest way to write a business plan” by Jim Horan. It addresses many of these myths, such as business plans must be long to be good.
This book is designed to help you get your business plan onto paper. Containing several types of exercises and questions to stimulate you, it is deliberately simple allowing you to start at any point and jump around in the easiest way for you.
The plan you’ll produce with this book will be short, concise and to the point. It will be something that you can pin on your wall and see daily – it’s not such a weighty document that it gets put on a shelf to gather dust and never looked at again!
This book also contains examples of what does and doesn’t work for each situation. If you go to buy this resource, you may notice that there are editions for different countries that allow specific examples from that country to be used.
In addition, “The One Page Business Plan” also comes with a “creative entrepreneur’s toolkit” CD. On the CD you’ll find:
Interactive Exercises and Templates
Sales Calculators
Budget Worksheets
Sample Plans
Score Cards
Bonus Tools
(All in either a word or excel format)
A business plan can have multiple uses and sometimes it’s about meeting other peoples specific requirements to get funding. It’s worth noting that if that is your primary reason for looking at this resource it will get you started getting clarity around your ideas and give you a strong foundation to build upon. However, you will need to take it further to adapt that to the specific requirements for the person/group you are seeking funding from.
Find the book on Amazon uk, or Amazon.com
Missed Day 3’s Coaching Resource, find it here
Coaching Quote of the Day 17th December 2011
“When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.”
(Confucius)
12 Days of Coaching Resources – Day 3 1
Day 3 of our 12 Days of Coaching resources is:
Playing Cards For Happy Managers & Happier Employees
Today’s coaching resource is designed to assist team leaders and managers in business.
The resource is a set of playing cards with a difference. At first glance you will see that the 52 cards have the traditional clubs, spades, hearts and diamonds. Each card also contains coaching style questions following a specific theme, depending upon the suite of that card, all important in people management.
Each set consists of 52 cards, a Joker and two explanatory cards. They are currently available in English, German and Dutch, and further languages are available on request.
The design of this resource means that you have lots of flexibility about how you can use them to create enthusiastic, high-performing and engaged teams. Just some of the ways that you could use these cards:
Pick a random card to act as a catalyst in a meeting when energy and inspiration is low
New managers can use the cards to identify areas to strengthen and take action accordingly.
Generate discussion points in team meetings with each member randomly selecting a card – allow the team to learn from each other and their experiences.
A fun game in a training environment allowing enlightening discussions in a gentle manner
If you are reading this blog and have got this far through this post I suspect I don’t need to tell you the benefits of such coaching style questions or the positive impact that enthusiastic, high performing and energised teams can have for a business. To find out more about these cards or even get your own pack(s) visit www.selfcoachingcards.eu
Missed Day 2? You can read that here
Coaching Quote of the Day 16th December 2011
“Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.”
(Pamela Vaull Starr)
12 Days of Coaching Resources – Day 2 1
One of the consistent requests from coaches is revolves around wanting to read more about marketing and how to get coaching clients. Today’s coaching resource addresses this request and is from Elizabeth Purvis, The Marketing Goddess who specilises in working with spirit rich coaches, consultants and healers.
It is a homestudy kit that can be applied regardless if you are just starting out or have more experience.
So you can get a taste of Elizabeth’s style let her explain in her own words a bit more about this resource.
Get Clients in 30 Days
Are you marketing like crazy and still aren’t getting the clients you need? If you’re doing, doing, doing and still not seeing results, I can practically guarantee you’re missing at least one of the steps in the shortest and most direct path possible to enrolling new clients.
In this homestudy course, I’ll will walk you through the 4 essential steps, plus you’ll get:
Proven systems to quickly enroll new clients and fill your programs (these allowed me to create a multi-six-figure business while my tribe was still well under 1000 people)
Simple ways to become irresistible to your peeps and design your offerings so that they instantly “get” what you do (without having to push, cajole or explain)
Step-by-step instructions (plus tested and proven done-for-you marketing) to get your ideal clients raising their hand to have a conversation about working with you
Detailed information on how to have rich and juicy invitation conversations that give value and serve your potential clients’ highest good – while leading them to take the next step
Plus time and money saving templates, scripts, and copy to support you in taking inspired, aligned action (instead of energy-draining “throw it up on the wall and see what sticks”)
Ready to stop “churning” and start serving? Get your copy today here: http://www.getclientsin30days.com
Missed yesterday’s coaching resource? Day 1 can be found here
Coaching Quote of the Day 15th December 2011
“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”
(Walter Winchell)
12 days of coaching resources – Day 1 2
Welcome to the first of 12 daily posts all about different coaching resources. Our first resource is:
“The Life Coaching Connection: How Coaching Changes Lives” by Steve Chandler
The last time I checked Steve Chandler had written 30 books which have been translated into 25 different languages. He also runs a year long course for coaches to empower them to get clients and build their practices to strong levels of prosperity.
It’s from this background that you’ll find this book shares the knowledge, wisdom and observation of decades of experience by coach Steve Chandler.
You’ll find that the writing style is very easy to read and conversational. The book is divided up into 51 chapters – many just a couple of pages in length making it very easy to pick up and read, even if you think you are challenged for time. It also means that the message of each chapter is concise and to the point.
Within the pages you will find many stories both of his own, that of his clients, colleagues and teachers. As you may have guessed from the title the overall theme is coaching and the impact it can have on an individual. It also contains thoughts and expertise to provoke thoughts and actions from coaches
Steve provided one of our guest posts back in July and generously offered that I could share a pdf copy of this book with Coaching Confidence readers. To get your copy email st***************@*******************co.uk