“Power comes in many forms, one of which is mastery. As we become expert—in creation or discovery, in helping or healing, in communicating or leading—we gain power. That power is revealed in flow, and in joy.” ― Heather E. Heying, Evolutionary biologist The first response from me regarding this question of how to become a great coach is that …
“We must accept our multiplicity, the fact that we can show up quite differently in our athletic, intellectual, sexual, spiritual—or many other—states. A heterogeneous collection of states is completely normal in us humans. The key to well-being is collaboration across states, not some rigidly homogeneous unity. The notion that we can have a single, totally consistent way of being is …
“Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” — Albert Einstein If you’re not familiar with the term “coaching niche” it means the particular specialty area or client base a coach works with. This could be domains as diverse as a Life or Health and Nutrition coach right through to Leadership and Executive coaching …
The answer to this very important question for anyone considering a career in coaching is not a simple yes or no, but very much ‘It depends’. And what does it depend on? Well there are several factors and let’s explore a few of the key ones here. Firstly, it will depend on how good and effective you are. This …
‘Modern Western culture has so neglected the intelligent unconscious—the undermind, I shall sometimes call it—that we no longer know that we have it, do not remember what it is for, and so cannot find it when we need it.’ Guy Claxton, Hare Brain Tortoise Mind I’m wondering how the statement above might’ve landed for you. Curiousity or perhaps a …
A key problem all professional coaches face is that, unlike therapists or counsellors, use of the word coach isn’t regulated which means anyone can hang out a shingle calling themselves one without any formal training whatsoever. Even more worrying is the fact that even many life coach training programs have been set up by folk with little to no …
“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.“ —George Bernard Shaw Having been in the coaching game for about fifteen years now and over a decade of that spent designing and heading professional coach training programs, the term life coach seems to get quite a range of reactions. Some immediately get it …
Naturally there’s plenty of other categories in the field of coaching than these as well. Just about any area of human endeavor you can think of will probably have a specialist coach who works exclusively with it. Yet these three are all quite well represented within the broader coaching profession so let’s have a brief look at what they …