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My art got rejected from an art show today because it was deemed too dangerous. You see, I made a piece out of multicolored glass. Exploding through the glass came a fist. I named it…
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Posted in Transformational Coaching - Guests Posts, [None] by Tony Stoltzfus Jan 30th, 2012 |
Tags: Personal Growth, Perspective |
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In a previous series we explored the four DISC profiles, which include Dominance (D style), Influence (I style), Steadiness (S style) and Conscientiousness (C style). Despite their differences these styles also share some things in…
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Posted in Transformational Coaching - Guests Posts, [None] by Tony Stoltzfus Jan 16th, 2012 |
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The process of habit change is not well understood by Christians, and neither are the relational resources God has given us to do it. The key factor in change is motivation, not information. It isn’t knowing what to do that produces change—it’s having the incentive to tackle the hard work it entails. We have to get motivated, to get energized to change, and then stay motivated and energized long enough to form a new habit.
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Posted in Featured Content, Transformational Coaching, [None] by Tony Stoltzfus Jan 9th, 2012 |
Tags: Accountability, Coaching Relationship, Personal Growth |
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How Understanding DISC Profiles Can Make You a Better Coach
During these eight weeks, we are exploring each of the four main DISC profiles to learn about the characteristics of each style, how people tend to…
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Posted in Transformational Coaching - Guests Posts, [None] by Tony Stoltzfus Jan 2nd, 2012 |
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How Understanding DISC Profiles Can Make You a Better Coach
During these eight weeks, we are exploring each of the four main DISC profiles to learn about the characteristics of each style, how people tend to…
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Posted in Transformational Coaching - Guests Posts, [None] by Tony Stoltzfus Dec 19th, 2011 |
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Accountability is an effective tool to help a coaching client change habits. And the principles behind accountability will work with any kind of action step. Whenever a client needs to get something done, accountability improves the chances of success. Here’s an overview of how accountability is normally applied in a coaching relationship.
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Posted in Featured Content, Transformational Coaching by Tony Stoltzfus Dec 12th, 2011 |
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How Understanding DISC Profiles Can Make You a Better Coach
During these four weeks, we are exploring each of the four main DISC profiles to learn about their unique characteristics, how people tend to communicate based…
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Posted in Transformational Coaching - Guests Posts, [None] by Tony Stoltzfus Dec 5th, 2011 |
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How Understanding DISC Profiles Can Make You a Better Coach
As coaches, we know that each of our clients is unique and different from every other client. Although this can be challenging, there are some…
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Posted in Transformational Coaching - Guests Posts, [None] by Tony Stoltzfus Nov 21st, 2011 |
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It’s 11:00 p.m., you just got back from another long day of ministry two time zones away from home, and you’re sitting alone on your hotel bed, exhausted. Tomorrow you fly back home through O’Hare, but right now all you want is to relax for a half an hour or so before bed. As you’re flipping through the channels trying to find ESPN Sports Center, there right in front of your eyes is a graphic, X-rated sex scene...
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Posted in Featured Content, Transformational Coaching by Tony Stoltzfus Nov 14th, 2011 |
Tags: Accountability, Coaching Relationship, Personal Growth |
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Have you been wondering where God is at times in your life?
Psalm 139 states that God knows about every detail of our lives and there is nowhere we can go that would take us away…
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Posted in Transformational Coaching - Guests Posts, [None] by Tony Stoltzfus Oct 12th, 2011 |
Tags: Biblical coaching, Personal Growth, Transformation |
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Dave was a youth pastor from a local church whom I’d been coaching for several months. One day he began to share his frustrations with Mike, one of the adults on his leadership team. Mike had been a member of the team before Dave was hired, and his ideas of what youth ministry ought to be were aligned more with the previous youth pastor’s approach than they were to Dave’s. As Dave settled into his role and began to carry out the mandate he’d been hired to accomplish, Mike got more and more upset.
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Posted in Featured Content by Tony Stoltzfus Oct 10th, 2011 |
Tags: Asking, How To..., Techniques and Skills |
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Coaching is based on internal motivation. The biggest obstacle to growth and change is motivation, not information. You can come up with a great idea for how to make a client’s life better, but if that person isn’t looking to change in that area, proposing it was a complete waste of time. People are the most motivated to act on their own plans and ideas. Therefore, if you want to maximize growth, you’ll allow people to set their own agenda, because that’s where the motivation is highest.
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Posted in Featured Content by Tony Stoltzfus Sep 12th, 2011 |
Tags: Coaching Relationship, How To..., Techniques and Skills |
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Making Life Messages is one of the more unilateral things God does. He decides where he is going to meet us, he creates or leverages the circumstances that get our attention and motivates us to engage him at the heart level. When we do engage him, it is Jesus that invades and transforms our hearts, too. Our job consists of two things: recognizing where he is already at work and choosing to go there with him.
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Posted in Featured Content by Tony Stoltzfus Aug 8th, 2011 |
Tags: Life Purpose and Destiny, Personal Growth, Perspective |
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A Life Message is a place in your heart where you have deeply meet Jesus, his life has replaced your natural life, and that incarnation flows out as a Message of Christ to others. Together, these Messages combine to form your being call—the essence of the Christ-in-you that is channeled through your calling role to impact others. Life Messages are individual facets of Christ’s character you specially model, while your being call is all those messages rolled together.
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Posted in Featured Content by Tony Stoltzfus Jul 18th, 2011 |
Tags: Life Purpose and Destiny, Personal Growth, Perspective |
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Early in my coaching profession I took 2-3 pages of notes per client. I captured a lot of the call, but had this sense that I was missing something important – that which could only be gathered in the moment of the dance. I soon dropped to maybe ¼ page of notes. That also seemed insufficient as my relationship with the client deepened. This pendulum swing began a journey of fine-tuning my note taking skills for the sake of optimizing client relationships.
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Posted in Coaching Tools by Tony Stoltzfus Jun 27th, 2011 |
Tags: Business, How To..., Techniques and Skills |
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