Understanding Rank in Leadership Teams by Michael Warden, CPCC
Whether you know it or not, rank is a powerful force on your leadership team. Here's what every leader needs to know about rank and how it works. Read full article...
Archive for May 2009
Whether you know it or not, rank is a powerful force on your leadership team. Here's what every leader needs to know about rank and how it works. Read full article...
Developing Coaches in the Church by Brian Rhen
Coach & Pastor Brian Rhen shares the first of 12 installments on how to develop lay coaching leaders in the church. Read full article...
What Is Twitter? I Am Lost! by Beth Cole
If you feel lost when it comes to Twitter, you are not alone and it is okay! There have been lots of articles written about Twitter, but in the big picture, Twitter is really new… Read full article...
SEO Quick Tip #3 by Beth Cole
This is the third in a series of SEO (Search Engine Optimization) Quick Tips...things you can do in 15 mins or less to improve your website.
SEO Quick Tip #3
Create a Google Profile
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Need Resources for Missions Coaching?
Here is a list of basic resources for the missions coach, including: Organizations, Recommended Books & Articles, Events & Trainings, Newsletters and Websites. If you have suggestions for our resources list, please share them! Read full article...
Coaching The Heart by Cheryl Baker
Have you ever been surprised by the actions of someone you thought you knew quite well? Maybe that Christian couple you hang out with has decided that they want a divorce and you are shocked. …
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Time Management for Job Seekers by Tanya Smith
There are so many online tools and resources, massive numbers of classes and books available about how to find that next job. How does a job seeker find time to find a job if they're so engrossed in all this stuff! Read full article...
How God Gets Our Attention by Tony Stoltzfus
Because coaches engage people at the growth edges and challenging places in life, they often encounter situations where God is trying to get a leader's attention and the leader isn't getting it. Understanding some… Read full article...
Coffee with Judy Santos by Linda Hedberg
So I’m at Starbucks, mug in hand, sitting across the table from Judy Santos, founder and director of the Christian Coaches Network. Wouldn’t that be fun?
Last time I was in Seattle-area, we did enjoy time together…
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Qualities of Successful Christian Coaches by Judy Santos, MCC
What would it take for you to be a successful coach? Start by considering personal characteristics that are present in successful coaches. If the following describes you, then you posess qualities you can leverage for a…
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A Dynamic Duo: Coaching & Counseling
Churches who have counseling ministries are more open to coaching. Certified coaches can partner with churches who offer counseling through referral relationships, workshops for counseling clients, or even by joining the staff of a church counseling center.
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Group Coaching: Efficient and Effective by Chris McCluskey, PCC
We are all looking for ways to be more efficient. Both coaches and clients want to make the best use of our time and money. Efficiency requires more than economizing - it must be effective. When coaches need to "work smarter, not harder", we want to serve more clients in less time and generate more income. When clients need to "do more with less", they want powerful results in less time at lower cost. Group coaching meets these requirements.
Group coaching has lagged behind as the field of coaching has grown. A quick search for books revealed none - not one - that addressed coaching in the manner in which the ICF and professional coaches define the field
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A Fresh Approach to Coaching in Churches by Jenn Peppers, CPCC
How do we explain coaching to ministry leaders when the term coaching is already used within churches to mean so many different things? Read full article...
Christian Coaching – Getting to the Heart of the Matter, by Janice LaVore
Most coaching books talk about the importance to coach from the heart, and I love the way Tony Stoltzfus defines the heart of a coach in his book, Leadership Coaching "the bedrock of great coaching is what's in your heart for the person you are coaching....powerful coaching comes from studying, internalizing, and imitating the Father's heart toward us." Isn't that a beautiful way to think of how to coach from our heart to our clients? We have Jesus as a role model! Read full article...
Heart Matters, by Marian Struble
I've been thinking a lot about the heart. During a visualization exercise my coach was leading, I was given a gift. This gift presented itself in the form of a stunning, silver filigreed, heart shape locket on a velvet ribbon. In my excitement, I opened the locket to see what was inside. A choir immediately burst into beautiful music. I heard the words to an old, familiar hymn I hadn't sung in years. "There is a place of quiet rest, near to the heart of God. A place where sin cannot molest, near to the heart of God." Read full article...