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How to Choose a Life Coach Training School by Tony Stoltzfus
As someone who runs a coaching bookstore, I get asked this question all the time. And as a coach, I like to make people think instead of just giving advice. So here are the five…
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Using Assessments at Work by Tracy ONeill Many companies today use assessments to gain knowledge of what soft and hard skills employees possess. These same tools work well with coaching and can be used to develop goals for personal growth.
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Natural Growth Patterns and the Limiting & Empowering Parenting Styles by Gregory Bland In this video Greg describes the Natural Growth Patterns of our Children/Teens; the Limiting Parenting Style and Empowering Parenting Style.
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Keep an eye open for little ways in which…
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Missions Coaching
Coaching & Social Status by Keith E. Webb Does coaching work only in Egalitarian societies?
This question emerged from discussion around cultural differences in social structures of societies. In the USA and the Netherlands, for example, inequality is viewed as not good…
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Business Coaching
Coaching for Strategic Innovation – by Anita Stadler, PhD Your executive coaching client must make choices about where to focus his or her time and energy at any given moment. Innovation can become a low priority if it is not operationalized into strategic goals. …
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Discipleship Coaching
Discipleship of the Heart – Going Deeper by John Purcell How could you take life-on-life discipleship to the next level? By taking it down — all the way to the heart. Interested?
The life-on-life approach to discipleship is the best way I have seen to…
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Coaching Women
How Are Being a Coach and Being A Christian Related, by Kimberly Dinsdale Im coming off of several months of deconstructing and reconstructing what it really means and looks like and feels like to live in a postmodern, progressive, emerging reality of coaching and Christianity. I am excited to be back on board. Ive missed offering my thoughts at the Christian Coaching Center, along with moderating articles by other coaches for the Coaching for Women page. Stay tuned and join the conversation as other guest coaches post their articles in the Coaching for Women Community.
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Marketplace Ministry – Business Leaders as Ministers – by Anita Stadler, PhD Do your Christian business clients consider themselves to be in ministry? Why or why not?
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Life Coaching
When Your Default Settings Work Against You Part 2 As coaches, we are trained to help people over the hurdle of being “stuck”. But what happens when you, the coach, find yourself stuck? How long does it go on? Do you have a strategy for getting moving again? Take a few minutes to read my story and see if you can relate…..
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Coaching and the Church
Injecting the Church with Coaching? Part 5 Train the Staff The staff had self-diagnosed the problem too many congregants with issues. Our lead pastor had agreed that even he was at his wits end on how to handle others issues well. But they all…
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Transformational Coaching
Seven Tips for Effective Free Coaching by Tony Stoltzfus If you are coaching as part of a staff role, working in the ministry arena or just starting out as a professional coach, you’ll probably do some free (or pro-bono) coaching. No-fee coaching relationships present…
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Family Coaching Center
Coaching Couples Through Emotional Memories Growing marriages often experience seasons of growth and pleasure followed by seasons of frustration and pain. Three steps forward and two steps back. Why is this and what can be done about it?
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Training & Certification
Movies, Switchfoot and Certification by Linda Hedberg In my moms Christian family, she was never allowed to go to movies. My fathers Christian family went to movies occasionally, but he became a pastor and married my mom which meant we typically did not…
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Web Marketing
Article Marketing by Marcie Thomas If youre a new coach trying to build a presence online, consider article marketing as a strategy for gaining online recognition and driving traffic to your website.
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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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Career Coaching
3 Mistakes in the Career of a Solo Business Owner by Tanya Smith When I first started looking at a business opportunity, it really wasn’t planned. I had been approached by someone to participate in a direct sales business. I didn’t know the person, and I actually never saw them again after I joined. Much of what I learned throughout my 6 years of working that business, I learned through great trial and error and I was never truly successful in getting the results I wanted.
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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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