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  • 'Unfinished business'  By : Dr Charles Bentley
    How unresolved issues from the past distort our perception of the here-and-now.
  • 10 First-Time Coaching Website Pitfalls to Avoid  By : Kenn Schroder
    Avoid these common pitfalls when creating your first coaching website to save yourself money and frustration while building a rewarding practice sooner.
  • 4 Effective Accessibility Tips Of A Successful Coaching/Consulting Business  By : Alan Quan
    How many times have you tried giving instructions over a cellular phone with bad reception? I bet that experience was pretty bad, and as you read this article, you will learn that there are several different channels that you will need to communicate through to get your message across.
  • 5 common areas requiring counselling  By : Richard Reid
    This article looks at 5 key areas in life a counsellor can help with.
  • 5 Secrets from a Life Coach for a Happier Life  By : Jeannette Samanen PhD
    Life Coach Jeannette Samanen, Ph.D. provides 5 secrets to help you create more happiness in your life.
  • 6 Big Questions Every Coach's Website Must Answer  By : Kenn Schroder
    Answering these six important questions on your coaching website will provide the opportunity for you to make a deep connection with potential clients in order to turn them into paying clients.
  • 8 Steps to Achieving and Keeping Your New Years Resolutions  By : Kathryn Watson
    Here we go again! Another year..another set of resolutions. How did you do last year? Can you remember what you promised yourself that you would accomplish? Are you one of the 80% of resolution makers that will become a resolution breaker?

    If you are like most people you really have good intentions but by mid February you have abandoned your goals. Oh you may pick them up again a couple of times only to abandon them again. You really intended to lose weight, quit smoking, eat healthier, exercise, start your own business, etc.
  • Archetypes  By : Dr Charles Bentley
    A brief explanation of important basic elements in human psychology
  • Be Content, Not Satisfied  By : Vivek Ray
    Success is not permanent. The achievement, you are feeling happy about will not mean a thing to you tomorrow. You must have taken some journeys when you were young. You must have felt good when a milestone passed as you looked out of the window, and a moment later you were looking forward to next. But were you still excited about the journey you had just taken when you reached the destination?
  • Benefits Of Life Coaching  By : Kozen Huseyin
    However good we are at managing our everyday lives, there are times when we all need a helping hand, and this is where the relatively new work of professional personal development life coach training comes into play.
  • But, I can’t because…  By : Mike Brown
    Have you ever heard the statement, "but I can't because.." ?
  • Coach? So What?  By : Charlie Lang
    If you are an independent professional (coach, consultant, lawyer, etc.), learn to develop an effective elevator speech to catch the attention of those you are talking to. This article shows you that it is meaningless to say "I'm a coach" or "I'm a management consultant" if you want other people to get interested in what you are doing. Find out what you can say instead.
  • Coaching Websites - 7 Mistakes that Hurt Client Attraction  By : Kenn Schroder
    You are a coach who wants to fill your practice. You need credibility to bring clients your way. You need a professional image to attract. You need to get the word out to get seen by potentials. The right website - can be a great tool to help you do this.
  • Coaching – A Quote A Day  By :
    “Life is not about how fast you run, or how high you climb, but how well you bounce.” – Author Unknown

    Believe it or not, the use of motivational quotes can have a positive impact on your resolve to move forward in business. We all suffer through moment of self-doubt and find ourselves somewhat incapacitated in our entrepreneurial endeavors.

    This article draws from a select group of quotes and ideas that may help you jumpstart your willingness to move forward.

    "In th...
  • Coaching – Recognizing The Tipping Point  By :
    Malcolm Gladwell has a long history as a news reporter, but in his book, “The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference” Gladwell helps readers understand something most of us have only felt was true – life has a tipping point.

    In virtually every aspect of our lives there is a point when something either very good or very bad happens. The choices we make will ultimately lead us to that tipping point. A long series of bad choices will lead to a tipping poin...
  • Coaching – Where Is Your Focus?  By :
    Summary: Most people don’t begin the process of developing a business if they have no intent of establishing the business. Most people also believe there are different roads that lead to success. Is this true? Or are there just a variety of perspectives along the way?

    Sometimes I think there is a common misperception about developing a business. This misperception seems to be that all roads lead to business success. This idea seems to take into account the notion that a bu...
  • Coaching: How to Succeed in Half the Time Using a Personal Coach  By : Ed Sykes
    What are the qualities of a great coach? It’s the same qualities you see in the great coaches in the athletic arena everyday. The following are some of the qualities to seek when enlisting the services of an effective coach:
  • Coaching; How To Help People Take Commitment For Their Development  By : Bob Selden
    Is there an alternative to telling someone what they should do or know? This article shows how a proven coaching method is implemented.
  • Dangerous Conversations: Coaching for Exceptional Performance  By : Gregg Thompson
    Coaching is not just about giving advice or telling war stories. It's about engaging in a different kind of conversation with another person; the kind of conversation that doesn't play it safe, touches of difficult subjects and goes to risky place. These are Dangerous Conversations, and they are what makes great coaching powerful.
  • Develop your Speaking Skills  By : Dr Charles Bentley
    It ain't what you say, it's the way that you say it!
  • Don't Ever Give Up!  By : wisdomisgreat
    Don’t ever give up! For you are born a winner. You can conquer the world, If you just only have self-discipline, faith and believe in yourself!

    Don’t ever give up!‘Coz from dark clouds, you get precious water. From dark mines, you get precious gems, And from darkest trials, come your greatest blessings.
  • Entelechy Speaks to Marshall Goldsmith about Coaching  By : Terence Traut
    Terence Traut from Entelechy, Inc. speaks to Marshall Goldsmith about Coaching
  • Executive Coaching an East vs. West Perspective  By : Dennis Heath
    In this article Dennis Heath outlines the benefits of executive coaching in an increasingly competitve global environment. He contrasts the different attitudes towards coaching found among western managers as opposed to their counterparts in Asia.
  • Finding Wholistic, Empowering Practitioners  By : Jeanie Marshall
    guides you to trust your inner process when selecting professional help from others.
  • Great Expectations: It's the Secret to Coaching  By : Gregg Thompson
    Gregg Thompson, author of "Unleashed!" reveals the secret to exceptional coaching; Expecting Greatness. Thompson breaks this concept down into three key components, Appreciation, Confrontation and Accountability, and demonstrates how these practices influenced his own life through the actions of his friend and coach, Boyd Clarke.
  • How a Coaching Niche Focus Leads to Online Marketing Success  By : Kenn Schroder
    Many coaches fail to market their practice online. There are many reasons, but a major, underlying culprit is due to lack of a focus - not having a niche.
  • How Can I Teach My Child to Live Life to the Full?  By : Robin OBrien
    I have spent many years trying to develop my inner self. It has not been easy. Overcoming my fears, inhibitions and inertia was difficult, but the effort has been worth it and I believe I live my life to its full potential. But how can I teach my child to live life to the full?
  • How Praise Can Actually DESTROY Your Protege and Coaching Business  By : Alan Quan
    You and I all know how powerful praise can be when we've done a great job finishing a task. Of course, being a coach or consultant, we want to be positive towards our protege. But in this article I will show you why praising ANYBODY will destroy their future, if done incorrectly.
  • How to coach the client that thinks they know it all  By : Sean McPheat
    To be a life coach is not that easy. Some people think that since giving advice is easy; many of us are into life coaching. How unfair!!! Of course they do not even bother to understand that many of us have undergone life coach training. And unfortunately for many of us, these very people come to us as clients. They are the nightmare clients; clients who think they know it all.
  • How to Get More Client Referrals by Getting Clear on Who  By : Kenn Schroder
    Filling your practice with clients is one of the biggest challenges for new coaches. And while there are many ways to get the word out on your services, those efforts won’t be as successful as you’d like if you aren’t clear on who you help – in the right way.
  • I Am The Master of Myself!  By : wisdomisgreat
    I am the master of myself! No other creatures can deteriorate; match the skills, talents and abilities of my being. For the Loving God gave a mind to think for the innovation of myself, He gave the eyes, the hands and the feet to transform all my plans into action.
  • If your clients have a problem with their children - sort out the parents!  By : Olivia Stefanino
    Very often as therapists, we're seen as a sympathetic ear for all kinds of problems.
  • In coaching, the only true 'expert' is - yourself!  By : Dr Charles Bentley
    Nobody has the capacity to know you better than yourself - your 'problems' are not out there, but within.
  • Interview Coaching: A Home-Based Business on the Cutting Edge  By : Carole Martin
    Being an interview coach offers new challenges and the chance to play many roles during a single day. The roles may vary with each client. The clients are all different –people in transition, or up for an internal promotion, or changing fields, or young people entering the work force.
  • Intuition and the Unitive Approach  By : Dr Charles Bentley
    The importance of intuitive skills development in Charles Bentley's unitive coaching tuition.
  • Is It a “Should” or Is It a “WOW?”  By : ReggieO
    Where are you trying to make something work that doesn’t work? You might recognize it by how much time you spend looking at it, this way and that way, and then this way and that way again – trying to see something that isn’t there, feel something that you want to feel….

    The simple and powerful question is, “Is it right for me?” I like to use the “WOW” factor - “Is it a “WOW?”
  • Join The Self Improvement Association  By : Robin OBrien
    It was John Dunne who first wrote; No man is an island. Never was there a truer observation of man's condition. No one forms beliefs, ideas, emotions, opinions in isolation. The search of self improvement is no different. We can only find our inner self through others.
  • Just For Today  By : wisdomisgreat
    Just for today, I will remind myself often with these words: Life is yours to enjoy. Don't waste it. Don't pass up living by thinking yourself into a failure and defeat. For there is always a room for opportunity and success. What you shall need to do, is to create one!
  • Life Coach – A Clear Definition and Definitive Standard  By : Kelly Burris
    The Certified Burris Life Coach sets the standard for Life Coaching. This is done by virtue of data collection with each client that proves what they claim they can produce. In the future every Certified Life Coach will be required to do this. Burris Life Coaching does this right now.
  • Life Coach: 7 Questions to the Deepest Level of the Subconscious  By : Kelly Burris
    What determines human behavior? This is a question that is not only not answered by anyone in the mental health community it is not even asked. THE Burris Life Coach is the only entity who definitively answers this question and THE Burris Life Coach is the only entity with the infrastructure to act upon the answer with the only clinically proven program process for depression.
  • Life Coaching - An Introduction To The Revolution In Personal Improvement  By : Marcus Brooks
    Life coaching arrived in the UK around 10 years ago, having started in the United States some 10 years earlier. The idea of life coaching is to define goals and work out how you can achieve them. Whereas therapy analyses the past, with life coaching the emphasis is on the future and how the client can fulfil their potential.

    A life coach will not judge their clients but work with them on issues causing difficulties in their life. They will help the client understand proble...
  • Life Coaching Career Advice – Finding The Career For You  By : Sean McPheat
    Stuck with not knowing where to go with your career? Read this article to know where to start
  • Life Coaching Faqs  By : Byron Branfield
    What do you mean by coaching?

    Coaching that is undertaken professionally can be defined as a relationship that is shared between the coach who has certain qualifications and a particular individual or even a group. Coaching is done in order to achieve particular goals that have been set beforehand. Coaching helps people to concentrate on their inner skills and talents. It is these skills that will enhance the personal and professional life of people.

    Do you need coachin...
  • Life Style Coaching transforms your Resolutions into Evolutions.  By : Helena Ederveen
    Life Style Coaching transforms Resolutions into Evolutions. Charles F Kettering said: "The world hates change." Yet it is the only thing that brought progress. Einstein said: "The current problems we face cannot be resolved at the same level of thinking with which they were created." Some of the common reactions to and defence against making changes:"Fear,Perfectionism, Low Self Image, Stubbornness, Learned Victimization
  • Make Big Bucks as a Business Coach  By : Kit Sadgrove
    This article outlines how to make an income as a business coach. It covers issues such as the experience you need to become a business coach, why business owners need business coaches and how to become a business coach.
  • Mentor or Coach?  By : Dennis Heath
    Despite the explosive growth of coaching as a tool for developing talent within organizations, many people are still not 100% sure of how coaching differs from other types of developmental intervention. One such intervention most commonly confused with coaching is mentoring. In this article a clear distinction is drawn between the nature and application of the two techniques.
  • Once Upon a Time - Style It and Profile It  By : ReggieO
    Stepping into your greatness is the most natural thing you’ll ever do!
  • Positive Role Models in Your Life  By : Dan Nohcud
    Role models in your life whether from your family or outside people who play a positive effect in your life sets your life's path in motion.
  • Problem or difficulty?  By : Dr Charles Bentley
    Clarification of the difference between two terms often used interchangeably in the coaching context
  • Professional Coaching: How to Get on Top, Stay There and Enjoy the View  By : Kelly ONeil
    Professional coaching is one of the fastest growing and most misunderstood professions of this decade. Coaching used to be an “executive perk’ for large company executives to help them make better business decisions. Today, coaching is rapidly being recognized as one of the best strategic weapons a company can have in its arsenal. And for good reason.

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