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
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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
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
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
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
Coaching and Listening
We’re often asked, “What’s the difference between the role of a consultant, coach and executive coach?” While some of the roles may overlap, there are unique differences. A significant departure between the roles is in the area of listening. The Role of Consultant Consultants are more apt to be … [Read more...] about Coaching and Listening
3 Proven Headline Tips for Coaches and Consultants
There are over a billion people connected to the Internet and many fall into the category of “your ideal clients,” but it’s not likely they go online looking for you, your business or your blog. Using keywords in your blog posts will certainly help the search engines find you, but only by clicking … [Read more...] about 3 Proven Headline Tips for Coaches and Consultants
Coaches Ask Questions
Throughout your executive coaching career, one of the skills you refine is the art of asking your client questions. This is a crucial element of your coaching approach, which is ultimately aimed at solving issues. The more thoughtful and probing your questions, the more you’ll reach potential … [Read more...] about Coaches Ask Questions
How Leadership Newsletters Add Value
As a successful business coach and consultant you’ve earned your stripes; you’ve honed your special skill-set through years of education, training and experience. But how do you share your qualifications with prospective clients in a way that makes you stand out? How do potential clients know that … [Read more...] about How Leadership Newsletters Add Value
What is Your Favorite Part of Coaching?
As business environments have evolved and become more complex, so has the role of coaches and consultants. Consider this research from an HBR survey report: 20 years ago most companies engaged a coach to help fix toxic behavior at the top, and 10 years ago most companies engaged coaches to develop … [Read more...] about What is Your Favorite Part of Coaching?