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9 Powerful Questions to Help You Deal with Negative Relationships

Coaching is a powerful tool that enables a person to find self-discovered solutions to a number of challenges, one of which includes dealing with negative relationships, be it involving friends,…

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10 Great Ways to Use Coaching Tools and Exercises in Your Practice

There are many reasons for using coaching tools and exercises, including helping our clients grow, build confidence and save much needed time. Below are 10 specific ways to use coaching…

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What Makes a Great Coach?

Congratulations! You are coach now, and your next client is expected soon!  You are understandably nervous as this is your first session! You are very eager to deliver your very…

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3 Essential Things You Need to Do Before Setting Up Your Coaching Practice

All too often, new coaches dive into setting up a new practice head first but soon find themselves sinking rather than swimming! Here are three essential things that you need…

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35 Coaching Questions for When Your Client Is Stuck

A common feeling that arises within coaching clients is a feeling of being stuck. This can manifest in them struggling to formulate solutions or having difficulty making forward progress on…

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9 Easy Career Coaching Tools to Help Clients Find Work They Love!

More clients than ever are coming to coaching wanting to change their career or find work they love. First, I believe it’s important to manage their expectations up front. While…

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5 Tips for Delivering Tough Feedback that Fuels Performance

The ability to give tough feedback ranks as one of the most important and difficult of leadership skills. Before we go on, let’s define “tough feedback.” Many think tough feedback…

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The 7 Habits of Highly Mindful Leaders

From the moment leaders awaken, they are bombarded with distractions and demands. Emails clog their smartphone or computer inboxes; texts, phone messages, requests and reminders of the many upcoming meetings…

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5 Coaching Website Mistakes that Turn Clients Off

1. You aren’t providing a call-to-action on each page on your site. There are few things worse in website user experience than going on a website, getting excited about a…

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3 Tips on Coaching Managers to Be Better Coaches

Even as someone who spends a good deal of my working day studying the power of effective coaching on employee engagement, I was still surprised to read a recent Gallup…

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