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Coaching Business Canvas

Logical Levels Canvas - 7/22

Logical Levels Canvas

Group Coaching Guide PDF for book

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Coaching Tools And Resources

Free Coaching Tools And Resources For You

1. Free COACHING TOOLS and Exercises *NEW* free tool added
2. Free Coaching QUESTIONS
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4. Free SEMINAR and EVENT Templates
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1. Free Coaching Tools and Exercises:

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TOOLC054
	*NEW* Simple 360 Feedback This 360 Feedback Coaching Exercise provides a framework for your clients to ask for feedback on their strengths and weaknesses and help them identify their blind spots - hidden talents or shortcomings they're not aware of. Includes a sample email template for clients (2 pages)
TOOLC008
	Wheel of Life Still getting your clients to draw circles on pieces of paper?This free coaching tool - with an additional page of instructions and helpful questions - is essential in every coach’s toolkit. Use it to help your client see how balanced their life is, to clarify priorities for goal-setting, to assess progress and as a regular check-in with your clients.
TOOLC043
	Coaching Wheel - BLANK This BLANK Coaching Wheel is a free coaching tool - ready for you or your client to customise! You could create a "Wheel of Happiness" - get your clients to identify what makes them happy - and an action for each. Or how about a "Wheel of Stress" or of "Overwhelm" to help your client identify sources of stress and how much each source overwhelms or stresses them out. For more Coaching Wheel ideas you may enjoy this Ezine article "The Wheel of Life - 11 New and Improved Uses for the Ultimate Coaching Tool"
TOOLC044
	Tolerations - Clear Your Mind! Do you have clients that seem scattered? Or perhaps they're so busy trying to get all the little things done that they don't get to the big stuff? Or maybe they're simply forgetful because their brain is full of all those tolerations... Well, we all know it's not just our homes that get cluttered - it's our minds too! Try this free coaching tool to help your clients identify what they're tolerating - so they can get focused on what's really important!
TOOLC046
	What Do You Need To Let Go Of? All too often we hang onto things that cloud our mind and drain us of energy, preventing us from moving forwards. Using the metaphor of a young monk who fumes for hours after his companion breaks convention to help a lady in distress, this instructive tool raises awareness around how we waste our energy on things we cannot change and will not let go of. It's also a perfect way to start a discussion around forgiveness - whether of self or others.
TOOLC007
	Life Satisfaction Scorecard How do you show your client how far they've come? Thishandy check-in tool has simple client-scored questions in key coaching areas. Return to this scorecard later to identify tangible improvements through (hopefully) improved scores! Also useful to get a snapshot of how satisfied your prospects - are with their lives right now and where they may need coaching.

 

If you liked these, you may also like the Welcome Pack Toolpack here.

 

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http://www.thecoachingtoolscompany.com/Free_Resources.php&urlhash=JQEx&goback=.gde_1334917_member_37655808

Planning preparation

 

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Global coaching directory

http://getei.com/TGCR2010View.html

 

http://0101.nccdn.net/1_5/304/09c/28e/Coach-to-Coach.pdf

 

 

Coaching Practice Tools

      

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Giving good advice can be helpful, but giving great tools can provide leaders and managers with a permanent solution to their issues.  With the right tools, you can strengthen the key components of any business and in doing so, increase your value as a business coach or professional trainer exponentially.

 

Click here to view a short video introducing the Six Key Components™.

 

Visit EOS Worldwide/Content for Coaches to learn more and download free tools.

 

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Bob Verdun, President

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EOS Worldwide 

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Helping organizations clarify, simplify and achieve their vision

 

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Every coach needs coaching feedback

Many coaches go for months, even years, without getting feedback on their coaching. There are two forms of feedback that we, as professional coaches, need to be getting on a regular basis:

 

1.     Feedback from our clients

2.     Targeted feedback from another coach

 

While a simple feedback form can take care of number 1, targeted feedback from another coach takes a little more effort... and COURAGE!

 

It is not enough to simply coach another coach through ReciproCoach. Targeted feedback from another coach involves a third coach who is not participating in the coaching and instead is listening to you coach someone else concentrating all of their attention on listening to your coaching skills and providing feedback so you can take your coaching skills to the next level.

 

To some this is a scary thought, but to many it's the very thing that keeps them on their toes as coaches, playing the best game they can, regardless of how much experience they have. Plus, when you get a mentor through ReciproCoach, in return you act as a mentor to someone else. Anyone who does this finds that being a mentor for another coach can improve your own coaching even more thanbeing mentored yourself!

 

Because mentoring is a vital part of any coaches' professional development, we now have mentoring rounds starting every month and they work in exactly the same way as coaching rounds do. You register, say what you are looking for in a mentor and then I match you up with one. But instead of having so many hours of coaching, you get three hours of mentoring, during which your mentor can:

 

a) Observe your coaching by listening in on a session (1st hour), providing written feedback (2nd hour) and coaching you around the feedback (3rd hour);

b) Give you three hours of Question-and-Answer time
c) Coach you for three hours specifically around your coaching skills

 

You can read more about these different kinds of mentoring here:

 

http://www.reciprocoach.com/mentoring.php

 

You can also check out the mentoring rounds on offer and which are starting next week here:

 

http://www.reciprocoach.com/rounds_upcoming.php?t=m 

As you'll notice, mentoring rounds are separated into experience levels. The aim is to have another coach, who is equally experienced yet who comes from a different background, hear you coach and offer the benefit of their experience and training, which is inevitably different to yours. This serves to expand your coaching skills giving you the benefit of doing additional "coach training" but without the time and price tag!

 

So make sure you're not becoming a lazy coach and lapsing into bad habits. Regardless of your experience level, be courageous and make mentoring an integral part of your professional development. I'll be in there waiting for someone to show up and mentor me and another coach to give mentoring to!

 

Wishing you well in your coaching journey,

 

Kerryn

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Kerryn Griffiths ~ Global ReciproCoach Coordinator
Email: kerryn@reciprocoach.com
Phone: + 61 7 3102 3426
Web: http://www.reciprocoach.com
Follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/reciprocoach
Become a fan on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/ReciproCoach/100609309414

 

 

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Fitting your coaching to your client

With the change in the ICF's definition of coaching late last year, it's worth taking a look at Yossi Ives' (2008) paper which explores some of the conflicting paradigms in coaching.

 

Coaching Research

 

Yossi identifies several broad areas that coaches typically argue about:

 

1) Directive or non-directive?

2) Personal-developmental or goal-focused?

3) Therapeutic or performance-driven?

 

You might find when you read this that you know exactly where you stand as a coach. But wait! Yossi Ives "does not suggest that any one approach is better or right" (p. 109) but rather that each different approach to coaching is more appropriate in particular situations. Thus, as coaches, "by understanding more clearly the nature of the difference between approaches, it will also be easier to fit a coaching model to specific situations" (p. 109).

 

In Practice

 

What Yossi is telling us is that, as coaches, we need to understand how to do all different forms of coaching. Forget about bagging one kind and proclaiming another. Instead appreciate and master each for its unique potential to facilitate your clients' development and change.

 

Try rating the following statements out of 10 ( zero = no way! 10 = absolutely!)

 

A. "Coaching is above all about human growth and change" (Stober, 2006 p. 17)

B. "The purpose of coaching is to change behaviour" (Peterson, 2006 p.51)

C. Coaching is about helping clients develop and grow in maturity

D. Coaching is foremost about developing adaptive thoughts

E. "Coaching is a goal-oriented, solution-focused process" (Grant, 2006 p. 156).

F. "Shift attention away from what causes and drives pain to what energises and pulls people forward" (Kauffman, 2006 p. 220)

G. Stretching the client through entering into challenging situations and the learning that arises.

H. A learning approach that helps self-directed learners to reflect on and grow from their experiences

I. "Coaching is a journey in search of patterns" (Cavanagh, 2006 p. 313)

 

Which paradigms dominate your coaching?

 

A. Humanist

B. Behaviourist

C. Adult development

D. Cognitive coaching

E. Goal-focused

F. Positive psychology approach

G. Adventure coaching

H. Adult learning

I. Systemic coaching

 

The larger your score for a particular paradigm, the more you naturally coach from that theoretical perspective. Take a moment to assess to what degree it dominates your coaching. This may be something you integrate into your business niche.

 

The smaller your score for a particular paradigm, the greater the likelihood that you're not using that approach very often when coaching. This might mean you could do with some further study in that area, if you're interested in fitting your coaching to your client. A quick search of google scholar (http://scholar.google.com.au/) will point you in the right direction or, better still, get a ReciproCoach with a background in that area and experientially learn it for yourself.

 

To read Yossi Ives' entire paper and find out more about the different approaches to coaching, you can download it from the International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentoring:

 

http://www.business.brookes.ac.uk/research/areas/coachingandmentoring/volume/volume6_num2.html

 

You may also wish to follow me and my research pursuits on twitter, via:

 

http://twitter.com/kerryngriffiths

 

Wishing you well in your coaching journey,

 

Kerryn

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Dr Kerryn Griffiths ~ Global ReciproCoach Coordinator
Email: kerryn@reciprocoach.com
Phone: + 61 7 3102 3426
Web: http://www.reciprocoach.com or http://www.kerryngriffiths.com 

Follow ReciproCoach on Twitter http://twitter.com/reciprocoach
Become a fan on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/ReciproCoach/10060930941

Should you hire a Coach?

1. Is there something holding you back from what you want most in your life? 
2. Are you under constant stress? 
3. Do you want to bring about change in your life? 
4. Are you currently “tolerating” things in your life that you wish would be different? 
5. Do you procrastinate about things? 
6. Would you like to feel a greater sense of satisfaction and fulfillment? 
7. Are you living the life others want you to live rather than living the life you want? 
8. Are you realizing your full potential? 
9. Do you have positive relationships? 
10. Do you feel challenged with your work/life balance? 

If you can answer YES to 4 or more questions, you might be a candidate to hire a Coach. 

Call me at 303.777.7743 for a free consultation today.

Frameworks

The 15 Frameworks (Where You Come From in Life)

Click here for an easy-to-print PDF format of the 15 Frameworks

21 Personal Evolution Strategies

21 Personal Evolution Strategies

To evolve more quickly and easily…

CoachVille Coaching Practicum

The CoachVille Coaching Practicum | Participate in or Observe a Coaching 'Concert'
Register Here; ICF CCEU;

What You Do

EXCERPT: Articulating 'What You Do ’ Simply, Effectively, Once And For All by Thomas Leonard, in the 3-step Micromodule from CoachVille

Money Game

http://www.msoci.com/bulletins/moneygame.doc

How to Write Tweets

Places to Start With a Coaching Client

Workflow chart

Download Workflow_chart

Seven yes for coaching by Dave Buck

Seven yes for coaching by Dave Buck

·         1 client believes the coach knows the game
·         2 the coach has the ability to play better
·         3 believes in the coach as a person
·         4 the coach understands and can help
·        5 the fee is valued towards winning
·        6 the client can afford to pay
·        7 the client believes that they have what it takes.

Predictability in the Business - Chris Barrow

thecoachexchange.com/

http://www.thecoachexchange.com/

Visibility for your Coaching Business

Group Coaching

www.beyondsixfiguresforcoaches.com

Shifting Values

coaching commandments

Greetings everyone. Time is once again flying by. Q2 is starting right now.
Let's make 2009 a banner year. One of the ways to do this is by taking a
look at the habits that you have or don't currently have but want and doing
an analysis. 

sample scorecard

The scorecard, as you know, keeps us on track for our Projects, Practices & Results.

 

I have been using this for 18 months with myself and my clients.

 

If you agree that you want one set up, I can place it for public view on the forum, as mine is, or a private view so that no one else sees it.

 

Your choice.

Here's a sample scorecard that I send to my coach for our sessions.

Download Rocky Romero - Scorecard 

Coaching for people, not points - John Wooden

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http://www.ted.com With profound simplicity, Coach John Wooden redefines success and urges us all to pursue the best in ourselves. In this inspiring talk he shares the advice he gave his players at UCLA, quotes poetry and remembers his father's wisdom

Thomas Leonard Content - Andrea Lee

Coaching QwikScore

Coachville Group Coaching

Group Coaching is HOT!

Group Coaching is a great way to provide affordable coaching for the client AND create strong leverage for yourself.

With leverage comes freedom and power. The freedom to make great use of your coaching skills and valuable time. The power impact more people and create .

In these times of economic uncertainty, group coaching is essential for creating a financially sustainable practice.

1) It is more affordable for the client - this can work as a lower cost entry point into your practice OR as a powerful maintenance program for folks who don't need 1-1 coaching right now. It is perfect for both.

2) You will learn how to create a powerful group environment where each member feels like they are part of a highly connected and supportive team - which brings confidence and joy.

3) Group Coaching is often the perfect entry into corporate settings where high-impact and low-cost per person is key; especially as a follow on to training programs.

Group Coaching is Different than 1-1 Coaching

It is important to know that Group Coaching is quite different than 1-1 Coaching. You will use all of your 1-1 coaching skills and methods AND

there are additional skills that you must 
develop to be a truly masterful group coach.

We call these skills:The 15 Group Coaching Proficiencies. Combined with your 1-1 coaching proficiency you will create a powerful environment for deep collaboration, spirited community and sustainable results.

We will hold an exploratory call to introduce you to our "Power of Groups" program on Tuesday March 17th at 1 PM ET.

click here for complete details and bridge information

Coachville QwikScore Assessment

Is Your Business Ready for the Inspiration Economy?

On Friday 03-13-09 I will host an R&D call for the Super Small Business Coaching program at 1PM ET.  You are invited to participate!  We will continue our refinement of the powerful QwikScore Assessment. 

You can find it here
You will also find the bridge information for the call on that page.

The QwikScore Assessment is based on the core principles of Inspiration Economy. The coaches using this assessment are already having breakthrough conversations with clients and potential clients. 

Together we are creating the new way to BE in business in the Inspiration Economy.

greatworkmovie.com/

http://www.greatworkmovie.com/

Webinars

Surveys

Surveys

My VA also told me about questionpro.com. It is $15/month with no contract and then we can send invites to up to 1000 people. I need something for 400, but these are NOT newsletter people, so I have to be able to import the email addresses. Plus, what I like about questionpro is it will then import into SPSS, which we will then be using.

Article Marketing

SelfDevelopmentArticles.com was created as an article directory for
coaches to submit their articles to so they can use Article Marketing to
their advantage. So head on over to
http://www.SelfDevelopmentArticles.com and sign up for a FREE account
and get started publishing articles in your chosen niche. Become the
"go-to" person in your niche. And get this, Article Marketing costs you
nothing out of pocket.

membership site!

Hosting your own WordPress site and using a plugin such
as WPWishlist is a great option. You have complete control over
the customization of your site (vs. using something like
Ning or CollectiveX) plus you can easily integrate
it with your shopping cart or PayPal for automating
communication, recurring billing, etc.

Most of the folks in the membership site industry are
promoting WordPress as the best option these days.

WPWishlist is very user friendly and easy to install.

There is another plugin for WordPress called MemberWing:
http://www.memberwing.com/

I have never used it but know they have a "free" option
that you can eventually upgrade to a paid version.

If you don't want to go with WordPress and you want more
of a social networking aspect, I would recommend Ning.

Let me know if you have any questions and good luck
with your own membership site!

All the best,


Kim Nishida
http://KimNishida.com
http://MembershipSiteSupport.com
http://ReadyToEvolve.com
Phone: 510-684-4375

membership program

I run a monthly membership program and I recently moved the management of the members-only site over from a password-protected directory on my website, to a WordPress blog and bought the WPWishList member plugin.

 

It's great! So easy to manage and there are lots of great features with the WPWishList member plugin that allow you to grow your membership site.  The plugin in is $97 for a single license and downloading WordPress is free.

 

More details here:  http://www.wpwishlist.com/

check our own Kim Nishida’s

http://www.membershipsitesupport.com

 

Best wishes,

Tracey

 

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Tracey Lawton

business support for the busy solopreneur!

 

Create an Efficient and Organized Office in 7 EASY Steps!

Let me show you how at:

http://www.OfficeOrganizationSuccess.com

thomas leonard material

It’s still possible to access some of Thomas’ old material on the Wayback Machine http://www.archive.org/web/web.php

 

I did that a few years ago and found the 1997 Principles of Attraction drafts for the Portable Coach there. He used an open, “creative commons” copyright (If Creative Commons had been invented, yet) and the format looked pretty much like blogging (If blogging had been invented). He literally said to feel free to use the content (“knock yourself out”), so I used it to create a 10-part ecourse by email (he probably invented email courses, too), called The 28 Principles of Attraction by Thomas Leonard. It’s free.

 

If anyone would like to subscribe, go here: http://tinyurl.com/28ATTRACT

Forms

If you've been looking for a comprehensive repository of business letters and forms for your personal and business use, check this out:

http://alfalfamedia.com/resources/597_letters_and_forms/index.html

All you need to do is install the software and search through 597 forms that you can use right away. This is only available for Windows user. 

Althea Marie Tan
The Content Annex
http://www.thecontentannex.com
San Leandro, CA, 94577

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Self-assessments

2009 Annual Sherpa Coaching Survey

2009 Annual Sherpa Coaching Survey.  Here’s a comparison with annual incomes of undifferentiated, un-niched life coaches and coaches with a niche, in this case Executive Coaches.

 

Life Coaches' Income

 

Tenure	2006-7	2007-8	2008-9
< 3 years	$ 47,000	$ 27,000	$ 28,200
3-5 years	$ 62,500	$ 61,200	$ 35,230
> 5 years	$ 88,950	$ 81,700	$ 77,000

 

Executive Coaches' Income

 

Tenure	2006-7	2007-8	2008-9
< 3 years	$ 56,000	$ 59,000	$ 64,000
3-5 years	$ 104,000	$ 87,200	$ 88, 300
> 5 years	$ 156,000	$ 149,400	$ 134,800

PayPal's Virtual Terminal

I use PayPal's Virtual Terminal. I do so for several reasons, one being
that PayPal doesn't limit you like a standard merchant account will.

You see, when you sign up for a merchant account they want to know your
average sale, and if you go over that substantially, they will reject
the transaction AND still charge you all the fees associated with
processing that transaction.

Also, a lot of merchant accounts won't let you allow someone to pay for
more than a month at a time, so that keeps you from giving clients a
discount if they purchase multiple sessions, like 3 months or 6 months
worth of coaching, or even a course that you host over several months.
PayPal however doesn't do this.

My advice, even though PayPal is a bit higher than a regular merchant
account, would be to use PayPal's Virtual Terminal. For me, the extra
cost is worth it as PayPal is a lot less hassle to deal with. Oh, and
the Virtual Terminal is pretty easy to use. Just fill out a few things
and your on your way to processing the payment and the money goes right
into your PayPal account, whereas with a merchant account, you may have
to wait a few days or even a week or two before the money is in your
checking account. And if you have a PayPal debit card, you can go
straight to an ATM after the transaction and withdraw your money and
stick it in your checking account the same day you processed the
transaction. I like the instant gratification that PayPal gives me.

I've used both of those. Paypal (Virtual Terminal) is by far the easier to use and to manage. An added advantage is that with Paypal, if she gets one who IS tech savvy, and wants to do any work by telephone, the client can fill in the forms. Or your client can do it. (the credit card machines normally won't allow you to take payment from a remote location.) The credit card machines you get at the bank also have a monthly charge for MasterCard and visa and an additional charge for American Express. Paypal covers all of them for a lower fee.

ProPay.com

Check out ProPay.com. They have many options for processing
a card. I go online right when on the phone with a client or
when I invoice them if I have an authorization. They also
have phone in processing and a new card swiper. Plans start
@ $35/year and rates are average (@ 3.25% + $0.35). I've
been with them at least 5 years and love it. Never an issue
with payments or with getting my $$ unlike PayPal.


Melissa Boyd, REPA, REW
iAssist Virtual Support
910-494-6397 direct
www.iassistonline.com

SelfDevelopment Articles

http://www.SelfDevelopmentArticles.com

coaching-reports

http://www.coaching-reports.com/

Useful Tools for Coaching

www.studygs.net - study guides

http://www.studygs.net/index.htm