Most coaches find initial or more commonly termed ‘chemistry meetings’ a challenge, especially as most training providers do not cover this aspect of our work. Success in converting clients has three elements to it. The first is clarity about what you believe coaching is, the way you work, and how you add value to individuals…
Category Archives: Coaching Tips
What Should You Do When You Face The Same Issues as Your Client?
It is inevitable that as coaches we will, from time to time, work with clients who share some of our own characteristics or who may be facing situations that we have faced in the past or are currently facing. Having recognised that you experience some of the issues your client faces is the first step….
How Onboarding Coaching Can Increase Staff Retention Rates
Onboarding Coaching, often called the first 90 or 100 days, aims to assist employees assimilate the culture, working processes/practices, identify formal and informal networks together with the strengths and weaknesses of the organization as quickly and effective as possible. It helps the individual settle into the new organization while looking for ways to deliver without…
Effective Note Taking for Coaches
Note taking is an area that causes concern, confusion and worry for many coaches. When you are training, trainers often want you to write a lot more than is needed in real life as a way of being able to analyze your thinking and analytical processes. It is also true that many courses do not…
How long should a coaching session be?
… and how often should they be held? In Executive Coaching it is more common to have ninety minute sessions spaced out monthly and in Life Coaching this may vary. However, regardless of whether you are an Executive or Life Coach, the needs of your client and their ability to absorb the outcome of the…
What to do when you don’t like your client
There comes a time for one reason or another when a coach realizes that s/he is finding it hard to like or work with a client. Sometimes this is due to what is called ‘transference’, where the client mirrors someone from the past that an individual may have had problems with even though the person…
Tips for Dealing with Narcissism
Much inspiration can be found with charismatic leaders but their strengths can be their weaknesses and what has an upside also has a downside. Many of the traits which help leaders reach the top of their game, can also be the same traits which lead to their downfall and there have been many examples of…
How Thinking Styles Affect Stress Levels
You are stuck in a traffic jam on the way to an important meeting that can directly affect your chances of clinching a major contract. You love your job and you really don’t want to lose it. Which of the following sounds more like you? “This is awful…I’m really stupid…why didn’t I leave more time?…
Setting Overall Coaching Objectives
In an ideal world, a joint meeting would take place between the corporate sponsor, the client and the coach to discuss the desired outcome. You could call this the transparent tripartite agreement stage of contracting. However, we do not live in an ideal world and such meetings are not always possible. In these circumstances the…
Giving Effective Criticism
Giving Criticism can be as hard as receiving it. Holding on to negative feelings doesn’t help. Criticism does not have to be a dirty word. It is possible to learn from the thoughts and views of others and if handled in the right way can get the point across without insulting the other person or…
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