Any coaching process starts by spending some time working out what the goal of the customer is, gathering information on our client’s demands and wishes, but, what happens when the objective itself proposed by the customer is just so-so, nothing even really motivating for him?.  It is up to us as a professional coach [...]

The very first task that I work on with my clients is defining a target market (or niche) for their business. We do this first because everything you will need to do to make your business successful, including creating an effective web site, starting an ezine, and creating online marketing plan depends on what the [...]

Coaching is a partnership between a coach and an individual that supports the achievement of results, based on goals set by the individual. The individual chooses the focus of the ‘conversation’, while the coach listens and contributes observations and questions as well as concepts and principles which can assist in generating [...]

 Aims are a fundamental part of our lives. Whether it aims about ourselves such as losing weight or quitting smoking or whether it’s aims about our circumstances such as making more money or changing jobs.
One of the most useful things you can do as a coach is to help your coachees make sense of their [...]

It is always exciting but sometimes a little daunting to start work with a new client. After all, you have yet have yet to build up rapport and trust. There can also be a nagging concern about whether you will fit and work well together.
Even the most experienced coach can feel this way [...]

Asking questions is essentially the way that we can help the people we coach to find their own solutions in their own way. Asking a question honours the other person’s knowledge and experience whereas giving an instruction ignores them. A probing question is simply one that gets to the heart of the matter, and [...]

I asked a number of coaches and they recommended a wide range of books - from those outlining coaching models and techniques, best practice in leadership and management , positive psychology, to books taking a spiritual approach to coaching and business. They also recommended books drawing on theories of Neuro Linguistic Programming and personality [...]