John – Page 2 – The CoachAccountable Perspective

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With Coaching Practices, Not All “Doing” is the Same

Do you “do” Session Notes? “Yes” COULD mean “Yes, I compose them for every session, and share them with clients as valuable touchstones from our conversation that are meant to be referenced again and again by them and me.” It could also mean “Yes, I…

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Power of the Re-Promise

As coach, good things are happening if you are sparking ambition in us clients. Symptoms of sparked ambition include: Assuming this process of action planning isn’t mere posturing, such plans and by-when dates are a promise, to you and themselves, that they’ll follow through timely.…

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Sparking Ambition

I had a coaching session that left me eager to get back to work that day. And I’m not talking anything like an “Ugh, this session is dragging, can it please be over so I can get back to the other stuff I need to…

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Openly Willing to Fire Clients

Would you ever fire a client? When the winning of clients is so often the hard part of running a coaching business, it sounds blasphemous to even consider ever throwing that away. But you’re out to be a difference-making coach, right? And a meaningful difference…

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Being a Genius Truly in Their World

My father-in-law is a genius when it comes to being handy. If there’s anything wrong around the house, I’m grateful to have him as my phone-a-friend and I always know with his help I’m in good hands and on the right track. Ever been around…

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Harness The Power of Your Client’s Desire to Look Good

For better and worse, we are all at least partially driven by a desire to look good to others, or to at least avoid looking bad. Because they trust and respect you, your clients are dying to look good to you. You can turn that…

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Psychology

The Positive Side of Seeking to Look Good

Seeking to “look good” to others often distorts our behavior, and not in good ways. I heard a tale of school-aged twin sisters, one popular, one not. They both knew their Shakespeare from home. If teacher would ask a question to do with Shakespeare, the…

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Something to High-Five About Next Time

Who doesn’t like a high-five? Seriously, that may sound like a trite thing, but a high-five is great. I’m not talking about the watered-down, patronizing variety; like an over-excited camp counselor who’s giving out enthusiastic high-fives to eight-year-olds for managing to put their shirt on…

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Being a Blank Slate Isn’t Good Customer Service, It’s Lazy

There’s a certain allure to starting off a coaching session with an open-ended question, like: “So what do you want to talk about today?” or “What are you working on now that you’d like my help with?” If this is how you start your sessions,…

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Coaches, you’re in the Caring-as-a-Service Business

The tech industry is currently rife with acronyms describing business types ending in “aaS”, which stands for “as a Service”. Software as a Service (SaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and so on. If you’re a coach, I humbly submit…

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