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Clear, Up-Front Intentions

“Why bother to have this coach/coachee relationship at all?” At the top of an engagement you should look your client square in the eye and ask this question.  Why? All too often the answer is taken as a foregone conclusion, and why wouldn’t it be? …
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The Session Notes are the Product

Here’s a novel twist on what you produce as a coach: Session Notes. Not conversations, not insights, not breakthroughs, not even results in cold, hard numbers. Session Notes.  Your job?  It’s to produce notes from your sessions. Bear with me here.  This is not literally…
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The Yin and Yang of Coaching

This is a distinction around the flavor of coaching that doesn’t really get talked about, but I think it’s actually crucial for coaching to live up to its promise. So what do I mean by “The Yin and Yang of Coaching”? Let’s begin with the…
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Shut up and do the reps

I remember the first time I heard the word “coaching” used to refer to the sort of coaching we here all know and love, i.e. NOT to do with sports or athletics of any sort. This new sense of the word “coaching” opened up a…
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Phone-a-Friend as a Service

You all remember that life-line from Who Wants to be a Millionaire, right? I called a buddy the other day.  I was looking for some tactical advice on a matter he was quite well-versed in.  During the conversation, I realized there was a fully separate…
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The First Step is to Survive

There’s a Warren Buffett truism regarding investing: “to make money you must first survive”. This is self-evident logic, and thus easy to overlook.  But let’s take a beat to look into it, and see how this translates into a certain kind of value you as…
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