During coach training the biggest paradigm shift for many is that instead of giving advice, helping means empowering people to discover their own answers. In …
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Career Coach Areas of Expertise
What does subject matter expertise involve for a career coach? Job search strategies – includes how to prepare online profiles, knowledge of the various job …
Celebrating Milestones with Clients
Creating client awareness and goal setting are ICF coaching competencies. Coaching is centered around a client’s drive and intent, so adding a little celebration into …
The Coaching Business Name
To illustrate the point made in the previous blog post on names, let us see the phenomenon in motion: Do you recognize the following names? …
The Power of Positive Thought
By guest blogger Tiffany Kalinka The ability to think positively sounds easy. In fact, for the average person, we have been using limited language the …
Make the Effort: Market Yourself as a Coach to Earn the Rewards
Many new coaches say their biggest challenge is marketing themselves as a coach. Consider this conflicting thought process: I want to help people by coaching …
Conflict Coaching
Helga Rhodes said, “Conflict is a fact of life; it does not have to be a way of life.”  Conflict can be a good thing …
Coaching Skills Now Job Skills
More and more often companies are requesting or requiring coaching skills for jobs. The Society for Human Resources lists coaching as one of the expected …
Website SEO for Coaches
This is 10 in a series of 24 blog posts on Business and Marketing. When people look for something online, they use what are called …
Achieve and Sustain Excellence in Coaching 9
The set-up of your work space contributes to your excellence in coaching because your ability to work effectively is influenced by your environment, tools, and …