Meeting Facilitation Training

A professional biography or overview, showcasing your background, experience and expertise, is a necessity for every business owner. This often overlooked marketing tool is an excellent way to introduce you and your business to potential clients and possible strategic business partners. Potentially, it might open up opportunities for speaking engagements, radio or television [...]

In addition to the old standby snacks like nuts, candy bowls filled to the brim with those gaily wrapped Christmas chocolates, or the chips and dip bowl, you may wish to offer your family and guests some more substantial appetizers to get those mouths watering, but not fill them up. We want to save room [...]

In the first longitudinal study of its kind, PhD student Fran Finn, is undertaking a three year research study of the effectiveness of coaching versus training, in a large public sector organisation in Queensland. In the study one group of leaders, had individual coaching for a year, whilst the control group continued with their normal [...]

A reader recently e-mailed me this question:
“I want to be a business coach, and yet while there are literally hundreds of training programs and two large credentialing bodies for life coaches… what about the business coaches? Shouldn’t there be programs to certify people to coach business?”
With nearly 300 programs offering life coaching training and [...]

One thing a lot of people miss when they’re training to be a life coach is that you have to SELL in order to COACH. Recently I was working with a coach training client who is just getting her own coaching practice off the ground and it sparked some thoughts on life coach training.
My client [...]

The goal of coaching is to empower clients, not to prescribe or advise as an expert. This is an area where many non-coach helping professionals may struggle because they’re so used to being the source of knowledge and interventions and that is what their clients expect of them.
Coaching, however, requires a different paradigm: one where [...]