While perusing my social media streams earlier this week, I couldn’t help but notice the amount of social media missteps coaches, consultants, and otherwise smart business professionals make. Sure, we’re all pressed for time, but social networking is still beneficial with good practices. Here are my … [Read more...] about Social Media Missteps Coaches and Consultants Must Avoid
Anger in Leadership
Emotions are part of the human experience, and the high pressure of leadership often brings them out into the open. Most leaders are familiar with feelings of frustration, fear, disappointment, impatience or resentment at some point in their career. Amongst it all, one specific emotion can cause … [Read more...] about Anger in Leadership
Coaching With Patience
Have you ever reached the limits of your patience? As an executive coach, you get the privilege of working alongside leaders to guide them toward more effective methods, behaviors and perspectives. You observe them in their world and address their needs with specific plans and approaches. Coaches … [Read more...] about Coaching With Patience
The Need for Authentic Leadership
Companies can no longer be impersonal buildings where employees show up each day, carry out their duties and shut off their brains before going home each night. People aren’t satisfied with simply following procedures and checking boxes. They seek professional fulfillment through engagement, passion … [Read more...] about The Need for Authentic Leadership
What Coaches and Consultants Need to Know about SEO
Content marketing for coaches and consultants has changed dramatically over the years. Consider this: when Content for Coaches began 15+ years ago, search engine optimization (SEO) was based primarily on three things: content frequency, keywords and links. This created a fairly clear SEO path for … [Read more...] about What Coaches and Consultants Need to Know about SEO
Debunk Coaching Myths
The executive coaching field has grown significantly over the last decade as leaders greatly benefit by having a personal coach. Yet despite numerous resources and successes, the advantages of executive coaching remain elusive: misnomers, misunderstandings and myths block the full truth. Of course, … [Read more...] about Debunk Coaching Myths
Presentation Skills: Best Practices for Executive Coaches
As an executive coach, how do you rate your presentation skills? Many executive coaches come from the business world, where they apply their experience in leadership to their coaching practice. Serving as a leader is the best training for coaching a leader: you can identify with your client’s … [Read more...] about Presentation Skills: Best Practices for Executive Coaches
Leaders Build Unity
Organizations run by leaders with traditional management mindsets lag behind their forward-thinking competitors in many areas: turnover, morale, productivity, market share, financial stability and profitability. The impact reaches far beyond the workplace and has a boomerang effect. Unhappy … [Read more...] about Leaders Build Unity
3 Tricks to Creating Compelling Content
Successful business coaches and consultants understand the secrets of writing compelling content. They know that it doesn’t matter what industry they are targeting, they won’t get readers to take action by exposing them to reason and logic only, they connect with readers in emotional ways. They … [Read more...] about 3 Tricks to Creating Compelling Content
Optimize Your Management Team
Extensive research reveals startling conditions in typical organizational settings. Gallup’s State of the American Manager Report, last updated in 2017, confirms a strong correlation between company prosperity and middle management abilities. Through the Manager Report and numerous surveys, Gallup … [Read more...] about Optimize Your Management Team