As silly as it sounds, it is important to say that before you start a coaching business, become a coach. Initial training is often a …
How to Start a Coaching Business
How to Get a Job as a Coach
While coaching is often seen as a business opportunity, some want to enter the profession as an employee. Increasingly organizations are hiring people with coaching …
How to Become a Coach
Coaching is the second fastest growing profession in the world and as such, many are asking how to become a coach. Ultimately the answer is …
Coaching for Project Managers
First, what is a Project Manager (PM)? The Project Management Institute (PMI) defines a Project Manager as change agents: they make project goals their own …
Using Your Coach Training Skills with Colleagues
Often meetings with colleagues have an added element: we want them to complete something without having the authority to enforce their follow-through. Coach training provides …
Coaching Skills for Performance Improvement
As a continuation of the previous blogs, this one focuses on coaching skills for performance improvement. Completing coach training develops these skills for use in …
Coaching Skills as a Workplace Skill
In the previous blog, we shared the coach training participants are often completing their coaching certification to learn coaching as a skill for other jobs. …
Coaching Skills Applied in Other Roles
Often times participants in coaching certification classes have jobs other than coaching. Their reason for engaging in the coach training is because coaching skills are …
Remember this: Failing to Plan = Planning to Fail
Planning takes time. Time to think, explore, consider, reflect, define, choose, prioritize, strategize, and get specific with action steps. The barrier to dedicating time for …
What might get in the way?
During coaching certification participants learn to ask powerful questions. What might get in the way? is one of many questions learned and used by coaches. …