If you’ve been in the executive coaching field for very long, you’ve probably experienced a yearly pattern in your access to new opportunities. New coaching contracts certainly coincide with the hard work coaches put into marketing their services. But opportunities are also affected by factors … [Read more...] about Managing Your Peak Coaching Season
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5 Best Tips to Market Your Coaching Skills
As an executive coach, you’re spending a good portion of your time growing your business. This means seeking new clients and opportunities; even veteran coaches take time to plant seeds and see if they grow into new ventures. You may have wondered the best way to market your coaching skills: … [Read more...] about 5 Best Tips to Market Your Coaching Skills
What’s Your Coaching Specialty?
The most successful executive coaches are experienced in only a few areas, able to help managers with specific challenges. Too diverse an arsenal paints you as a generalist. Executives are looking for specialists. In our work with coaches and consultants we have found that lesser experienced coaches … [Read more...] about What’s Your Coaching Specialty?
3 Time Management Tips for Executive Coaches
As an executive coach, your time is spread thin with tasks to keep your business running and growing. Each one requires full attention while addressing, and a continuous mindfulness when you’re not. How are you doing with managing all your time demands? Between your coaching sessions, assessments, … [Read more...] about 3 Time Management Tips for Executive Coaches
Do the Benefits of Leadership Coaching Outweigh the Difficulties?
When you entered the leadership coaching field, helping people solve their leadership problems probably seemed fairly straightforward--people are basically people. But in all honesty, did you anticipate the kinds of challenges you are facing now? Do the benefits of leadership coaching outweigh the … [Read more...] about Do the Benefits of Leadership Coaching Outweigh the Difficulties?
How Does Content Marketing Work for Executive Coaches?
How does content marketing work for executive coaches and consultants? What makes someone pick up the phone and call you to inquire about your coaching services after they read an article you publish in your newsletter or blog? Ah, yes, but there's the problem right there in red, the "ACTION" word. … [Read more...] about How Does Content Marketing Work for Executive Coaches?
A Coaching Conversation Checklist for Smart Managers
In spite of wide-spread coach training, most of the time managers aren't using coaching skills to grow and develop their people. Instead, many managers still believe in their role as a problem solver, cutting short conversations with employees by providing solutions, advice, and answers. Yet … [Read more...] about A Coaching Conversation Checklist for Smart Managers
The Need for Managing with Coaching Skills
Managers who effectively harness their coaching skills reap multiple benefits. Their employees are more committed, willing to put in greater effort and are less likely to leave. Coaching’s impact significantly affects people and profits within organizations committed to training managers, guiding … [Read more...] about The Need for Managing with Coaching Skills
How to Develop Executive Presence:
Actions Speak Louder than Words
In order to flourish in your career, you’ll need to pay attention to your executive presence. Learn how to improve presence for job interviews, promotion opportunities, and coaching and leadership development programs
“Executive presence begins in your head. It resides in how you think about … [Read more...] about How to Develop Executive Presence:
Actions Speak Louder than Words
Coaching Conversations:
Teaching People to Think
One cannot teach a man anything. One can only enable him to learn from within himself. ~ Galileo Galilei
With so many employees being paid to think, leaders and managers should find ways to cultivate their staffs’ cerebral capabilities to boost workplace performance.
But most leaders wouldn’t know … [Read more...] about Coaching Conversations:
Teaching People to Think