Experienced Coaches

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Gift of Gab: Speaking as a Way to Grow Your Business

In a world where exposure welcomes success, and success leads to more exposure, speaking is a way to attract both. If the idea of speaking is both exciting and terrifying,…

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How to be Successful When Working from Home

Many coaches run their businesses out of their homes. Being able to work from home successfully requires creating and sticking to boundaries that help you separate the professional from the…

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When the Client is Thinking of Suicide

John was working with his client Alice to formulate an action plan. “I’m just not in the mood to do any long-term planning right now,” Alice said. John picked up…

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Coaching a Coach: Is It a Challenge or an Opportunity?

While practicing coaching, we come across a wide variety of clients from different education levels, professional backgrounds and personalities. This happens to be one of the most rewarding and enriching…

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Overcoming Impostor Syndrome in Your Coaching Business

The term “impostor syndrome” was coined by clinical psychologists Pauline Clance and Suzanne Imes in 1978. In recent times, Amy Cuddy’s 2017 TED talk on feeling like a fraud, catapulted…

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Finding Clients Online: How Your Website Fits into the Big Pictur

We all wish we could just put up a website, and the clients would come trickling in on their own. But, the World Wide Web is bustling these days, so…

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How to Create Flow in a Coaching Session

People are most creative, productive and often happiest in the flow state, according to renowned psychologist Mihaly Csíkszentmihályi. Flow means concentrating fully on the task, being effortless with full of…

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How to Find the Perfect Work-Life Balance this Year

“Work-life balance” is one of the most overused terms in the corporate world. Corporate leaders speak about the importance of having the perfect work-life balance to their employees, but, what…

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Using Surveys in Coaching: 9 Steps from Purpose to Practice

Surveys are one of the most commonly used methods to determine a client’s needs and expectations prior to coaching, and they can also be used to monitor and assess progress…

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Thoughtful Listening

When we coach, we offer the rare gift of listening deeply. The first time I shared the Three Layers of Deep Listening Model (adapted from chapter 3 of Co-Active Coaching, by…

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