Pacific Management Consultants are a good example of branding. They consult with dentists on how to establish a practice that thrives. (Stay with me. We’ll get to coaching.)
Coaching is Like Gardening
“A garden in the early stage is not a pleasant or compelling place: it’s a lot of arduous, messy, noisome work — digging up the hard ground, putting in the fertilizer, along with the seeds and seedlings. So with beginning a story or novel.” –Ted Solotaroff
Business/Executive Coaching Is Emerging But All That Glitters is Not Gold!
Just as shamans, snake doctors and financial folks once freely dispensed unregulated advice and wares to the public, business coaching currently requires no specific training, experience or credentials. Any organization or individual, including your neighbor, bartender or hairdresser, can legally profess to be a coach.
10 Steps to Moving From Freebie Coaching to Paid Coaching
One of the places many coaches get stuck and in fact quit the coaching profession is the inability to master the bridge between having a complimentary coaching session to being hired by the prospective client.
The Four Qualities of Work Team Coaching
Work team coaching differs from other forms of coaching, and it’s more challenging in many ways. Business executives, athletes, and other self-driven achievers welcome a coach or mentor to push them to new heights. Hourly employees may be equally driven, but often resist being pushed. They are nevertheless eager to achieve more meaning in their work and life — and this is the coach’s key to bringing out their best.
Promote Your Speaking and Coaching with Free Articles
How much time do you spend promoting your business? Two hours out of six? One hour out of six? Maybe not even that much.