The Meaningful Coaches Path: Coaching, cognitive fitness and building business By Sharon Todd & Jill Hewlett Originally published in v11n2 and reproduced with the permission of choice, the magazine for professional coaching Many people are choosing coaching as a career path, in order to create work that is meaningful and aligned to their personal needs and professional goals. Along with being skilled listeners and offering timely …

Whether our clients say it or not, how they feel about what they bring to us for coaching plays an essential role in the coaching itself.

There are many approaches to getting new clients as a coach, but most of the coach training programs out there don’t do a great job of preparing coaches to succeed in the marketplace. Whether you’re a life coach, business coach, or executive coach, you’ll likely need a process that allows you to build, grow, and keep your coaching practice or …

Have you ever noticed that the coach training schools and programs do a great job of teaching us how to be excellent coaches, but not such a great job of teaching how to get more coaching clients or run your business most effectively?  You may have read some of the articles in this library from bestselling author and executive coach, …

The following article was contributed by: http://sealthedealsuccesskit.com/ This article includes a chart that shows you how to distinguish between networking, marketing and sales, the key terms of business development. ©2005. Suzi Pomerantz, Innovative Leadership International LLC. All rights reserved. Excerpted from Seal the Deal: The Essential Mindsets for Growing Your Professional Services Business People often misuse the term Marketing to …

The following article was contributed by: http://sealthedealsuccesskit.com/ This marketing tool is a brainstorm kick-start, listing ideas you can try in the business development domains of Visioning, Networking, Marketing, and Sales. One way to write down what you want for your business is in a Personal Strategic Business Development Action Plan in three distinct domains: Networking, Marketing, and Sales.  Excerpted from …

In our charge as a coach, we are asked to help clients break past barriers and help them achieve a desired level of success. This is usually done through deep, probing questions with the intent to have the client find the answers they seek within. While we, as the coach, can see the progress clients are making, it is often …