To achieve your dreams and become the best version of yourself, you need to learn how to motivate yourself and stay motivated. Motivations refers to that drive which propels you to do everything you can to attain your goal. This drive can come from various sources, such as how badly you want to attain a[…]
From time to time, you may feel uninspired and down in the dumps. How can you get the creative spark back at such moments? Let us explore what inspiration is and then delve into some avenues through which you can find your inspiration. What is Inspiration? It isn’t easy to get a consensus definition of[…]
Whenever you listen to or read about high performers, you most likely come across advice to set big, audacious goals. However, it is easy to become anxious when you look at that humongous goal and wonder whether you will ever achieve it. Doubts can set in, and you may find yourself giving up on your[…]
As a coach, you know that the most effective tool you have in your toolkit are the questions that you ask your coaching clients. Questions are important because clients are already “experts” who have tried different ways to solve a situation in which they feel stuck, but they haven’t had the success they desire. So,[…]
As a professional coach, you know that you have a duty to accompany your client on a journey that will result in that client finding for himself or herself the solutions to the issues they face. Now comes the tricky part about your role as a coach; as you accompany your client, you need to[…]
Let us start by making a huge statement; advice and recommendations are overrated. What?! Yes, as a coach, always have it in mind that your clients are not looking for advice or recommendations regarding the challenges that they face. Coaching clients are subject matter “experts” on the issues facing them, so what they are looking[…]
When you look back over the last couple of years, can you definitively state that you are happy with the results you got in each of those years? If you want 2020 to be the year when things turn around, the year when you register achievements that are beyond your wildest dreams, then you need[…]
Sooner or later, a time will come when the administrative side of your coaching business will start to take up so much time that you will find it harder to schedule as many coaching clients as you would like. That is the time when a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system will be a valuable tool.[…]
Fear can be a powerful force, especially when you give it an opportunity to dominate you. As a coach, you will encounter fear in different forms, both within yourself and in the coaching clients that you work with. If you don’t do anything about your fear, you will be held back from making progress towards[…]
As a coach, you need to have a toolkit from which you can select the best technique or tool for a given coaching situation. One of the best approaches that you can have at your disposal is the GROW model for coaching. This model structures the coaching process into four distinct phases that follow each[…]