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    Use Coaching Research to Get Clients by Tracy O’Neill
    Do you want more clients in your coaching practice? Then present your target audience with evidence that coaching is a sound investment. Research can show clients how coaching was used in situations similar to their own and what results were obtained. The studies also help coaches determine which techniques and tools are most effective in specific settings.

    Where Can I Find Coaching Research?
    The best resources for coaching research are university library databases... Here are a few coaching research sources accessible online:
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Coaching Videos

Coaching Demonstration

This DVD Training Video with Tony Stoltzfus shows coaching in action.

Introduction to Coaching

Chris McCluskey introduces you to coaching with a clip from his Crash Course DVD.

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Discipleship Coaching

A Coach is Like a Pedometer by Cheryl Baker
I love my pedometer.  It counts and keeps track of every step I take. Pedometers were originally used by sports and fitness enthusiasts, but are becoming popular as an everyday exercise measurer and motivator.  In…
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Christian Coaching Magazine

Athletic Coaching: Not the Best Analogy
Athletic Coaching: Not the Best Analogy, from ChristianCoachingMag.com by Jerome Daley, ACC, DPM New professional coaches don’t get very far into the industry before they learn one important fact: They are not only in the coaching business…
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Coaching Women

Heartbreaking or Hopeful, A Coaching Challenge, by Kimberly Dinsdale
I don't feel depressed. I haven't lost interest in these things. I just don't do them. I'm excited about the possibility to accomplish my goals and the idea of being an independent woman, but I have trouble acting on it. I don't have trouble dreaming about the life I want, but I don't know why I don't do what it takes to make it happen. What the heck is wrong with me? How do I get that focus and discipline now that I am out of such an oppressive and damaging marriage?
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Coaching Research

Learn From Organizational Coaching Studies
What do businesses like Bank of America, Johnson & Johnson, Nike, and Coca-Cola have in common? They all have used coaching in learning initiatives.[i] Organizational coaching is an internal coaching program that provides a platform…
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Parent Coaching

Am I Pushing my Child Away? Balancing Control and Freedom. Part 1 by Gregory Bland
‘Pastor Greg, my parents do not trust me with anything!  I feel as though they are suffocating me and simply want to ruin my life with all their rules and regulations.  They don’t let me…
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Coaching Tools

Ministry Risk Factors — How Do You Stack Up? by Tony Stoltzfus
The 18 risk factors for pastors shown below are given with statistics that show where pastors are at today. You may be surprised or even shocked at some of the realities of ministry leadership. But…
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Missions Coaching

Coaching When Disaster Strikes, by Keith E. Webb
How can coaches respond and help with natural disasters like the earthquake in Haiti? There are many ways, from giving and going to coaching from home. Lessons learned from the 2004 Asian Tsunami can help. When…
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Life Coaching

Fear Drives, Love Compels by Michael Warden, CPCC
What's the fuel that runs your life? What actually "powers" you into action day to day? I've become convinced that there are only two primary fuels for the human soul: Fear. And Love...
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Career Coaching

We all could use a time-out by Tanya Smith
Have you ever had one of those weeks that just wore you out? Yes? Me too. I can't even explain where all the time went or what I accomplished right now. I just know I'm tired…
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Family Coaching Center

Coaching Couples to be Participant-Observers in Marriage by Jeff and Jill Williams
If you want to help couples learn to help themselves by coaching their own marriage relationship it is essential that they learn to do two things well: 1. To participate in conversations with heart and skill. 2. To observe and adjust their own communication process.
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Coaching and the Church

Recruiting Coaches for Lay Coach Training
Programs come and go in the church all the time, and if you're as passionate about training lay coaches as I am, you will want your first training to have a good reputation and a life-changing impact for the long-haul. The best way to do that may be to carefully think through how to recruit your first class of potential coaches. I recently had a good experience recruiting and training lay discipleship coaches in my own church, so here's a first-hand summary of what seemed to work:
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Training & Certification

The Best Advice on Choosing Coach Training by Linda Hedberg
A prospective Christian coach posted a question at an online discussion board I saw last week, asking for advice on Christian coach training.  Her questions referenced that she was looking into ICF training.  Among the responses, the…
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Web Marketing

SEO Quick Tip #5: Choosing Keyword Phrases, by Beth Cole
Try something real quick for me -- head over to your website and take a look at the phrase that shows in the blue bar at the top of the browser when you pull up…
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Transformational Coaching

How Life Purpose Connects with Suffering by Tony Stoltzfus
[/caption] Paul, one of my first coaching clients, engaged me to help him discover a sense of purpose in his life. Several months into the relationship, his teenage son was tragically killed in a car accident…
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Wellness Coaching

The Sweet Success of Sleep by Sharon Graham
When I do Wellness Assessment with clients, one of the areas we look at is their personal satisfaction with the amount and level of sleep they're getting each night. In doing hundreds of assessments with people, it is a rare client who sleeps well or long enough each night. Why is adequate rest so important for coaches and clients alike?
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Coaching Ministry Leaders

7 Common “Ego Traps” for Leaders (Part 2) by Michael Warden, CPCC
Ego Trap #2: "If I don't stay on top of their work, mistakes will be made." Translation: "I'm a control freak."
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