Coaching Candids
Coaching Candids is an informal place at The Commons where we enjoy stories about coaching on the front lines, entertain big questions that affect us and play 'six degrees of separation.' Do you have a story, funny fact or thought-provoking topic you'd care to share? This is the spot.
Top Ten List: Let’s Create a Thriving Coaching Business!
How’s business? Thriving - just hanging on - somewhere in between?
A coaching blog I read today talked about how important “networking” is in creating and building your coaching biz. Yeah, yeah, we’ve all heard THAT before. You get out there, tell people who you are, convince them you can help them achieve their goals, pass out your cards, […]
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Retirees Want to Rock, but NOT in Rocking Chairs
Retirees are on the prowl! They’re looking for life coaches, financial planners, career consultants, fitness experts and others who will help them live their best ”second life.”
Not shy about retirement makeovers, baby boomers have more choices in life-after-career than their parents did - so many in fact, that teams of retirement consultants are forming, in non-profits, TV networks, […]
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Coaches: Listen… Just Listen…Then Listen Again… Listen Once More….
I remember when my husband, a realtor for 20+ years, told me about training himself to LISTEN THOROUGHLY to his buyers. He had to learn to consciously stop his mind’s desire to run ahead and mentally choose houses for his clients WHILE they were still describing what they wanted. Once he learned this, it saved his clients (and him) precious time and money.
Then […]
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What Happens When Coaches Make Mistakes?
When I read this article from Thailand, it really made me think about how coaches admit, respond and make adjustments when they feel their clients are not making the anticipated progress. This coach talks quite candidly about realizing that he coaches top level execs very well, but does not experience the same success with middle managers.
His lightbulb-moment caused him to rethink […]
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I’m Always on the Lookout for Where Coaching is Showing Up in Life!
Last week I spent some time at the University of Southern California, in Los Angles, where my son is a broadcast journalism major. Alex is currently the Tuesday evening sports anchor for their nightly news broadcast.
A team of 30 or so students spend the bulk of the day putting together as professional a broadcast as possible […]
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From Newbie Coach to Thomas Leonard’s Right Hand Person
Here’s a connection that may illuminute the beginnings of coaching in Seattle: In Spring 1996, Linda Miller (of Ken Blanchard Companies) and I held our first coach training workshop in that city, in Washington State, USA. At that time we were both students at Coach University (now called Coach U) and felt competent to lead a workshop […]
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I Lived One Block Away from a Future ICF President…
Little did I know, a future ICF President used to walk his dog in front of my house. This was the place I lived during elementary school, no doubt pursuing my ‘dreams’ of becoming a lawyer, doctor, or something that definitely wasn’t coaching!
The house in question was 6029 Hudson Street, to be exact, in Vancouver, B.C., and Steve […]
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