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Coaching Matters’ subsidised coaching goes live today
Coaching Matters is launching today at Browns Brasserie in Covent Garden.
To kick us off, I’ll be talking about “Getting Down and Dirty with Success Strategies!”
Part of the Coaching Matters mission is to open up coaching to more people through a subsidised scheme. This will allow our members to gain coaching with professional coaches from ÂŁ15 to ÂŁ45 per hour - a huge saving!
This is going to be a wonderful opportunity to spread the benefits of coaching as well as supporting excellent coaches to improve further and use their energy and motivation.
7 Top Tips For Growing A Profitable Coaching Business
I have met many coaches over the years. Some build a successful coaching practice, others simply qualify and never quite seem to get off the ground, yet others simply give up the ghost almost immediately because they don’t know where to start with building a business.
Let me say this: it’s not the fault of coaching as an industry or a career! I think it’s because, traditionally, people drawn to become coaches aren’t experienced business people or entrepreneurs. They have been drawn to coaching to help people and to use their people skills.
The business side is something many coaches shy away from. Well, that’s ok if you don’t want to earn money from coaching. But if you do, if you want a successful practice, then the business aspect of coaching is an essential part of what you must learn and put to work.
Thankfully, like almost anything else these skills can be learned. You don’t have to be born a natural entrepreneur or have genetically gifted business acumen if such a thing exists!
You do however need to commit yourself to learning and using business skills.
This article is by no means comprehensive about what is needed but these seven tips will give you a great starting point if you really want to be successful. Read more
Uncovering the “present” in coaching
Having spent many hours observing coaching with my training coaches I have noticed a strange phenomenon! Coaches will often spend either no time or heaps of time discussing what the current situation is for a client.
When they spend no time, it’s as if the here and now doesn’t matter and there’s a headlong rush towards the next steps and options for change. When they spend too much time, they tend to get caught up in fact-finding and building a more and more detailed picture of what’s currently happening.
Neither are the ideal way to deal with the present in coaching. Exploring the present should be about helping the client to know where they’re starting from, what strengths they bring, what they need to work on etc. Read more
Seven things you need to know about Performance Coaching
Coaching is a frequently misunderstood and misused process. Often within organisations, it is merely mentoring with a different name or management with a soft edge! It is appraisal-time assessment with a “what would you like?” thrown in.
But in fact coaching is none of these things. It is a specific tool and process that allows you to get the very best from your workforce.
So what makes it unique? What is this thing that we call performance coaching?
Here are seven key principles that underpin coaching which every performance coach knows and every manager, HR officer, CEO or team leader needs to know. Read more
How to survive the Credit Crunch with a smile!
Firstly, a warning! If you have come to this article expecting deep analysis of the financial crisis and what steps to take with your investment portfolio, you will be disappointed!
This is definitely not a practical guide to technical financial choices!
This article is essentially about attitude.
How To Get The Very Best From The GROW Model In Coaching
The GROW model is a simple structure which can be used very effectively in coaching. However, to be truly effective it needs to be used in the right way and with the client at the very heart of it.
GROW, of course, is an acronym for:
- Goal
- Reality
- Options
- Way forward (or Will or Wrap up)
The model is straightforward: identify the client’s goal (G), find out where they are with it now (R), look at all the options open to achieve the goal (O) and help the client commit to one or more options for action (W).
How to discover the real challenge in a coaching client’s goal faster, easier and with much greater results!
In coaching we are almost invariably dealing at some level with achieving goals. However, what is clear is that someone only seeks coaching if there is a challenge, problem or issue with their goal. Think about it, if achieving their goal was easy and effortless then coaching would be pretty superfluous for that client.
Obvious as this may sound, it’s important to think about this since many coaches plough in to coaching a client on their goal unclear as to what the challenge is that makes coaching necessary in the first place! Clients often obligingly answer the coach’s increasingly irrelevant questions because they assume the coach is the expert! The poor client may never get to the real heart of their challenge.
Sharing the opportunities and experience
One of the great things about the coaching world is the immense positivity of so many coaches. It’s not just about the process of coaching a client - it’s the mindset that says: life isn’t meant to be put in a box and opened occasionally. That’s why so many coaches I meet are always trying new ways to grow both personally and professionally.
Today I had a great meeting with a coach I met over a year ago. It’s the first time we have had to meet since but it was clear immediately that we shared values and a way of thinking that brough instant connection. I am delighted to say that this great coach, Arvind Devalia, will be a guest speaker at one of our events. It may be a SMART School event or a London Coaches and Trainers Group Meetup - but one way or the other you will have a chance to meet Arvind and hear about his 4 Cs which will make 2009 great!
8 critical questions to ask yourself before you train to be a coach
Training to be a coach is a wonderful experience but it is no small step. It requires time, money, work and commitment. So it’s critical to get your decision to become a coach right first time.
It’s too easy to waste your time and money by making a mistake. But you can avoid this…
Ask yourself these 8 questions before you make a decision to train and you will be sure to make the right decision.
7 great ways to fail your coaching clients every time…and how not to
So, you have your coaching client and you’re ready to help them achieve their goals and dreams.
But how can you fail them every time? Well, of course, you don’t want to!
But looking at it from this angle gives a new perspective on the mistakes that coaches so often make and helps you see how to avoid them.
So, let’s look at the 7 great ways to fail your coaching clients every time…and how not:
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- Coaching Matters’ subsidised coaching goes live today
- 7 Top Tips For Growing A Profitable Coaching Business
- Uncovering the “present” in coaching
- Seven things you need to know about Performance Coaching
- How to survive the Credit Crunch with a smile!
- How To Get The Very Best From The GROW Model In Coaching
- How to discover the real challenge in a coaching client’s goal faster, easier and with much greater results!
- Sharing the opportunities and experience
- 8 critical questions to ask yourself before you train to be a coach
- 7 great ways to fail your coaching clients every time…and how not to
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