Mentoring for the Future: Grow Your Own Pool of Skilled Technicians

What is mentoring? Mentoring is a strategic approach to developing an employee (mentoree) by pairing him/her with a more experienced employee (mentor) who will teach, coach, counsel, sponsor and encourage the mentoree.

Expect the Unexpected

This Labor Day weekend, I took some time to put together a new plan to bring in business. The plan is easy and it's perfect for me. My sales should go through the roof compared to the last couple of years. The most interesting part of working this plan is that it has brought about a few unexpected surprises.

Get a Business Coach!

Every Entrepreneur needs a coach in order to optimize his or her performace. Benjamin explains how a coach can help your business, today!

Back to Basics: Principles of Life Coaching

The history of Life Coaching is quite diverse, however a lot of the concepts and principles used in Life Coaching can be correlated back to humanistic psychology that has its foundations from Carl Rogers' and Abraham Maslow's theories on higher human values, self-development and self-understanding. It is important for coaches...

Life Coaching vs Therapy

Are Life Coaching and traditional therapy synonymous? Can they complement each other? This is a condensed comparision of two distinctly different approaches.

Success Coaching On a Budget

Perhaps the greatest paradox with professional success coaching is that those that need it most are often the least able to afford it, and those that can afford it readily are already achieving a substantial level of success in their lives. Here are some tips for getting the benefits of coaching for those on a budget.

Shuffling or Dancing?

Our actions and reactions are influenced by the four perceptual styles: Audio, Feeler, Visual and Wholistic. These styles have Empowering and Limiting Tendencies. These reactions are stimulated by your fears and fueled by your perceptions.

Fears that Drive Reactions: The Wholistic Perception

Our actions and reactions are influenced by the four perceptual styles: Audio, Feeler, Visual and Wholistic. These styles have Empowering and Limiting Tendencies. These reactions are stimulated by your fears and fueled by your perceptions.

Coaching - By Tendulkar's Coach

Tendulkar's first coach - What did he do to make Sachin a world class cricket player? Would you have been a different person with a different career if you had a coach like him?

Join The Self Improvement Association

It was John Dunne who first wrote; No man is an island. Never was there a truer observation of man's condition. No one forms beliefs, ideas, emotions, opinions in isolation. The search of self improvement is no different. We can only find our inner self through others.

Overcoming Challenges

As an adult, life can feel like a continuous series of problems. As you grow up you exchange small problems with limited consequences for large problems with significant consequences. So just how do you respond to these challenges? This article helps you to create opportunities, and opportunities give you choices. Having choices means you are not stuck, and you can take control.

Diving Into the Darkness Within

This morning my husband and I spent about an hour and a half filling in a budget for ourselves. We've never really done that before. Not both of us. Not together. Thanks to the inspiration of the financial guru, Dave Ramsey, we're motivated to get ourselves out of the usual cycle of spend-spend-spend and run-run-run from debt. I left my cushy IT job of ten years at the end of March this year so that I could focus on a career as a Professional Life Coach. It's a very humbling experience to step from the steady paycheck into the unknown and to trust that our needs will be cared for and cared for well.

A Quick Fix - Part Three

It takes the same amount of energy to be unhappy as it does to be happy. You choose! How to de-stress yourself for the drive to and from work. Simple exercises to make you happy.

Life Coach Certification

Life coaching helps people achieve their goals. As a life coach, you have the ability to solve problems people face on a regular basis, such as bad relationships, dead-end jobs, and stress in family relationships, and help set them on a new course to a better life.

The Coaching Practice Trap

This article looks at the potential trap of creating a job in a coaching practice rather than building a coaching business that frees up your time.