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A Sacred Sanctuary for All Things Coaching
Your client's email inbox is teeming with a lot. If you've got something worth sharing with them, it's best to share it somewhere else.
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Was it the Coaching? Or would it have happened anyway?
If you’re in the results-producing business as a coach, you want the cause-and-effect relation between your coaching and client results to be as clear as possible. On the timescale of months, breakthroughs in life happen all the time. Pick any six-month period in someone’s adult…
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A Given Coaching Style is Composed of Various Practices (or Lacks Thereof)
What’s your coaching style? Before reading on, put your eyes back on the question above and notice what pops up as your mind begins formulating the answer. Give it a beat before you move on. Again, What’s your coaching style? … Now I’m going to…
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Just 1-3 Sentences
One of the greatest gifts you can give your clients are notes from the sessions you have. If you don’t fancy yourself much of a writer when it comes to composing Session Notes, don’t worry. It doesn’t have to be a masterpiece to be a…
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Session Notes Are to Be Carried Forth and Carried Out
When you really nail session notes, they’re more than mere documentation. In the hands of your client, they’re marching orders.
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Coaching Calls Are Meaningful, Memorable Milestones
Tell your clients that calls with you are going to be meaningful, memorable milestones. There are just a few ingredients you need to ensure are present to have this be true.
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The Gift that is Notes Written by Another
Think of the birthday cards you’ve received. Which ones stand out in memory, having really touched you? The ones where the Hallmark writer really nailed it with a witty zinger on the inside, below which was hastily scribbled “Love, So-and-so”? No. It’s the ones where…
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Meaningfully Engaged Beyond the Conversations
If we’re talking about meaningfully engaging with the coaching process, however they showed up in the last conversation is just the tip of the iceberg. Because no matter how enthusiastic they were, the real impact comes only from applying that coaching, to life as lived,…
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“Therapy for All” vs. “Coaching for All” vs. “Coaching for Some”
What's a good rallying cry for the masses in the space of well-being and expressing potential?
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Promises Made to Self Alone are Easy to Break
Notice in your sessions how often clients will say something that rhymes with:“Yeah, I really should…” or“I think it would be great if I got in the habit of…”. They might even use more committed language, like:“I’m going to…”,“I gonna start…” or even“I will…” Whether…
