Archive for April 2009
Social media networking is becoming integrated into every aspect of every day life, including the job search. The fact is - there are more and more people recognizing the blessing (or curse) of the social media network.
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Posted in Career Coaching by Tanya Smith Apr 7th, 2009 |
Tags: Marketing, Networking and Referrals, Work |
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Become a firm believer in research. Why? Because the more rigorous research conducted on coaching, the more the “outside” world will acknowledge the coaching movement as a legitimate discipline and field of study worthy of…
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Posted in Coaching Research, Coaching Research - Guest Posts by Myra Dingman Apr 6th, 2009 |
Tags: Research |
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A wellness coach is an accountability partner who helps you create solutions to the obstacles that stand in your way of achieving your vision of wellness. Your wellness coach assists you in moving from where you are today to where you want to be in terms of your well-being. They are skilled in helping you succeed.
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Posted in Wellness Coaching Guest Posts by Sharon Graham Apr 6th, 2009 |
Tags: Benefits of Coaching, Impact of Coaching |
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Wellness coaching is not about diagnosing and curing illness, rather it is about empowering clients with wellness information and allowing the incredible healing systems that God designed into the human body to do the work.
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Posted in Wellness Coaching Guest Posts by Sharon Graham Apr 6th, 2009 |
Tags: Accountability, Benefits of Coaching |
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Jill and I vividly remember the night at the dinner table that we both made a concerted effort to listen, reflect and ask open questions to our youngest. Laura Beth was eleven at the time, and was experiencing some tumult with a friend. "I don't know what to do about Nikki", she said.
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Posted in Parenting by Jeff Williams Apr 6th, 2009 |
Tags: Communication, Listening, Relationship Coaching |
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Although life coaching is a cutting-edge and rapidly growing field, I often get asked, “What exactly is a life coach?” We can sometimes complicate things by thinking that life coaching should be difficult and that it takes years of schooling to understand. It isn’t and it doesn’t. We can also think that a life coach is the client’s therapist, mother, or new best friend. She is not. In the simplest terms, a life coach is a conversationalist – one skilled at conversations.
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Posted in Coaching Women - Guest Posts by Kimberly Dinsdale Apr 6th, 2009 |
Tags: Benefits of Coaching, Definition of Coaching, Impact of Coaching |
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You've probably received SPAM in your email box that announces you can receive a Bachelors Degree or even a PhD with no substantial educational requirements. You are invited to just "call the number," pay the…
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Posted in Training & Certification by Linda Hedberg Apr 6th, 2009 |
Tags: Become a Coach, Certification, Training |
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How much work is too much? Work is labor, to be sure; but if it is sucking the life out of you, something is wrong. Here are some tips for the client who is wondering if s/he is overdoing it...
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Posted in Coaching Ministry Leaders - Guest Posts, Transformational Coaching by Tony Stoltzfus Apr 6th, 2009 |
Tags: Leadership, Life Balance |
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While leading the women's ministry, God's Uttermost Woman, and also serving as a Christian Life Coach for women, it is vitally important to me that I represent the very behaviors in my life that I guide other women into practicing. I had such a chance to do this when God laid it in my spirit that He wanted me to be on the radio for God's Uttermost Woman's ministry. The radio, are you serious God? He most certainly was.
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Posted in Coaching Women - Guest Posts by Kimberly Dinsdale Apr 6th, 2009 |
Tags: Life Purpose and Destiny, Practice Building |
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Coach trainer and founder of Life Purpose Coaching Centers International, Katie Brazelton, writes about a biblical example of life coaching.
Some of the greatest achievements in each of our lives can be traced back to a word of…
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Posted in Training & Certification Guest Posts, [None] by Linda Hedberg Apr 6th, 2009 |
Tags: Biblical coaching, Training |
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On the bulletin board in my office are the photos of missionaries I coach. Each of their faces tells a story of sacrifice, passion, determination and service. Years of hard-won experience have polished these leaders'…
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Posted in Missions Coaching - Guest Posts by MCC Moderator Apr 6th, 2009 |
Tags: Become a Coach, Benefits of Coaching, Impact of Coaching |
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Each of these people were not only called to a spiritual purpose, but also an area of work that served mankind in a different way - e.g. David was by trade a shepherd who became a King. Why is it, however, that we believe we are only called to one specific purpose as part of God's plan?
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Posted in Career Coaching by Tanya Smith Apr 5th, 2009 |
Tags: Life Purpose and Destiny, Transformation, Work |
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In A Crash Course in Christian Coaching (originally presented as a conference speech) well-known coach Chris McCluskey defines coaching, traces the development of the coaching model, and in the process highlights the key principles that make coaching effective...
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Posted in Book Reviews by Tony Stoltzfus Apr 5th, 2009 |
Tags: Become a Coach, Impact of Coaching |
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TransforMissional Coaching adds to a growing collection of books on coaching in ministry. The book's unique contributions are around coaching Post-modern leaders, coaching from a holistic missional mind-set, and coaching out of character and relational authority...
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Posted in Book Reviews by admin Apr 4th, 2009 |
Tags: Leadership, Techniques and Skills |
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Does culture effect coaching? You bet it does!
I've noticed that most coaching training originated from cultures that could be described as individualistic and egalitarian - countries like Australia, Britain, and the United States.
However, much of…
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Posted in Missions Coaching - Guest Posts by MCC Moderator Apr 4th, 2009 |
Tags: Impact of Coaching |
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