Coach Training

Why Would a Therapist Want to Become a Life Coach?

December 5, 2011

Guest article by Melissa Quiter, MA Why would a therapist want to be a life coach, and vice versa? Here’s my personal story. I started out as a coach and then decided to become a psychotherapist. I remember often wondering why so many coaches were ex-counselors? I learned quickly it is because the counseling world [...]

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Appreciative Inquiry Questions

September 22, 2011

what has worked in the past? what have others told you are your strengths? what’s your unique superpower that you can bring to this situation? what are other situations like this that have gone well? what’s an example of a recent success? what’s a small win you could have in the next few days? what’s [...]

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How to Coach a Client on Personal Vision

September 21, 2011

I was typing out some notes today for a mentee preparing for the IAC certification exam, and when I finished I realized that others might find this useful as well. It’s by no means “the right” way to coach a client on personal vision, it’s simply the framework I use. The idea is to have [...]

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My 2011 Goal

January 13, 2011
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Will Coaching Go the Way of Windsurfing?

January 6, 2011

This morning I was talking with another experienced coach trainer about the state of the coaching industry.  She commented that after 10 years providing coach training, she’s concluded that 90 – 99% of people who want to be coaches aren’t really serious, and that’s the real reason they are struggling. I’m afraid I have to [...]

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How To Coach a Client When Nothing Seems to Help

October 11, 2010

Of all the coaching materials that Thomas Leonard produced in his lifetime, the How To Coach Anyone (HTCA) series of 68 lessons is my very favorite. In fact, I’d venture to say that much of what I know about coaching was learned from those lessons. The first lesson that Thomas wrote was on how to [...]

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Teaching What We Most Need to Learn

September 17, 2010

A nice bonus of teaching the habit change coaching program is that it makes me more aware of habits that I’d like to change. The old adage “we teach what we most need to learn” certainly applies to me! What are my worst habits? lateness email “addiction” sweet tooth I’m using the principles that I [...]

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Top Ten Reasons to Become a Certified Coach

August 17, 2010

Julia Stewart is a coach, coach trainer and seminar leader who uses her creativity and humor to expand people’s thinking and inspire them to work brilliantly. She’s President of School of Coaching Mastery and has been helping coaches pass difficult certifications since 2003. Is there really any good reason for a business or life coach [...]

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Why the Habit Change Niche?

July 26, 2010

I’ve been hinting for the past few weeks that I’m up to something big. That “something” involves a particular coaching niche that my research tells me has TONS of clients looking for coaching. I have been coaching in that niche for years, and want to empower other coaches to do the same. More than that, [...]

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Readymade Coaching Business: Would This Work for You?

July 22, 2010

I’m sitting on an egg that’s getting ready to hatch. It’s a system that provides coaches with a ready-made coaching business. I think it could make a huge change in how quickly and easily coaches start earning money. I don’t want to say too much about it right now, because it’s still in the incubation [...]

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