How To Read A Person Like A Book

It’s amazing how much a person reveals about themselves through their body language. The ability to read someone’s body language is an invaluable aid in sales, negotiations, counseling, dating, or any other kind of human interaction. It’s easy to learn, too.

Developing a Marketing Mindset in Life Coaching: Part Two

To be a successful coach, or in fact successful in any business, it’s critical that you embrace a Service Paradigm mindset toward your marketing. In this article we’re going to further explore exactly how you can develop a Service Paradigm marketing mindset...

Developing a Marketing Mindset in Life Coaching: Part One

Many business people, including coaches, fail to recognise the important ethical role that marketing plays in their business. In doing so they develop a mindset that is self defeating to themselves, their business, and their clients. As a coach, you are in business. How effectively you operate your business is entirely contingent on you...

Effective Communication Skills that Bring People Together

The 4 essential keys to great conversation that make people want to talk to you.

Finding Coaches and Mentors

When I was in the corporate world, I had mentors from whom I learned. They taught me skills that helped my thought processes, made me a better manager and more. Since going into business for myself, I have had additional mentors. Some of them I knew. With others I had only online relationships. And there are some people I consider mentors with whom I have never had direct contact. Learn how to find the people who can help you learn and reach your goals.

Do You Need A Life Coach? What is a Life Coach?

There is much more you could achieve in your life with a Life Coach. A Life Coach is part personal consultant, part sounding board, part manager. Yes, manager. Someone to help you maintain direction, develop strategy, motivation, and goal setting. A coach is often the person, who encourages a professional to succeed, to hire, to fire, to fine-tune a sales pitch, to stretch, set higher goals, boost profits and make better decisions about everything from personnel to strategy.

Forgiveness: the Power to Overcome

What would you do when your quality of life has been substantially altered negatively through someone else's fault?

Some Advice for New Coaches

What is the most important thing that a new coach should be aware of? I coach quite a lot of coaches and I'm often asked this question. This is my reply: It would have been all too easy to slip into suggesting techniques to use, best practice to follow and questions to ask when answering this question. Fortunately I held back and on reflection it's clear that the single most important thing that a new coach should be aware of is

Knowing What You Want Without Being a Prisoner

When you know what you want out of life, it sure makes it easier to get it! But many people don't really know what they want or what will really make them happy. I had a client who was driven to rise to the top of his career field and make a lot of money. He worked all the time, which left very little time for his personal life. His first marriage had ended several years ago and while he called his kids several times a week, he rarely saw them. He had almost no personal life outside of his business and was lonely and frustrated with trying to find a woman to love. As a result, he felt powerless over his situation. His calendar seemed to run his life and set his priorities for him. He came to me in total frustration wanting to know how he could get what he wanted.

The Secret To Constant Improvement

What one thing can you do each day that guarantees your life will be constantly improving? I’ll give you a hint: It only takes a few minutes.

Videotape Your Performance

One of the best pieces of advice for improving at public speaking is to videotape yourself and then watch the video, looking for ways you can improve. This technique is commonly used by the best speakers in the world. But this idea can work for any kind of performance, not just public speaking.

Coaching Generation X

One of the most fundamental requirements for effective coaching is the ability to understand others' motives, values, and goals, not enforcing one's own on others.

Introduction to Performance Coaching

Leaders must learn effective performance coaching techniques and know how to convince workers to change their behavior in order to achieve organizational objectives.

Coaching for Creativity in the Workplace

Leaders must understand that one of their most important responsibilities is to create an organizational climate wherein followers feel empowered to speak up and “dream the impossible dream.”

Executive Coaching: What Makes Us Want to be Coached?

Executive coaching will give executives the skills to fulfill their coaching responsibilities and assist.