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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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The Benefits of Developing a Coaching Niche

One significant feature of coaching, as distinct from mentoring or consulting, is that coaches don’t provide advice. Rather than being subject-matter experts, our expertise is in the art of coaching.…

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A Conceptual Framework for Likert-style Coaching Surveys

Attitude surveys are a relatively simple and low-resource method used to determine a client’s needs prior to the coaching engagement and assess impact during, at the end of or after…

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Private and Confidential

Have you ever considered what it would be like to open your Inbox one morning, only to discover the following email notification? PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL Ethical Conduct Review – Notice…

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