12 Days of Coaching Resources – Day 4

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 … Read more

12 Days of Coaching Resources – Day 3

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 … Read more

12 Days of Coaching Resources – Day 2

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 … Read more

12 days of coaching resources – Day 1

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 … Read more

Coaches Scary Coaching Stories

So Monday was October 31st, otherwise known as Halloween. A day associated with fancy dress, trick or treating and scary stories and films. Perhaps not a day you associate much with coaching! One thing I’ve noticed with clients and myself, over the years, is that we can be exceptionally good at scaring ourselves – we … Read more

A personal coaching plea to those starting out as a coach:

Don’t keep your coaching to yourself! I think it is such a waste that I keep talking to individuals who have developed their coaching skills and knowledge yet are not doing anything with them. They have fallen in love with coaching but are afraid to take that next step by working with a “real person” … Read more

Who is uncoachable?

I’m seeing an increase in the number of people arriving at this site looking for answers on a variation on the question, who is uncoachable? Because this is the wording that is being used in the questions and searches, for clarity I’ll stick to that language throughout this post. I will however, highlight that the … Read more

How can you use language to help your coaching client when introducing something new?

As a coach there will no doubt be occasions when you introduce something new to a client, either a new concept or exercise. Today’s post invites you to consider the language you are using to do that. When I was employed as an in house trainer in the corporate world, I remember being involved in … Read more