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Coaching With Style: Discovering Connections Among the DISC Profiles by Dawn

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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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 bring…
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Coaching With Style Part 4: Coaching a C Style by Dawn

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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Coaching With Style Part 3: Coaching an S Style by Dawn

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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Coaching With Style Part 2: Coaching an I Style by Dawn

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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Coaching With Style Part 1: Coaching a D Style by Dawn

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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Have You Seen God Lately by Michael J. Pfau

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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When Destiny is an Unattainable Goal by Tony Stoltzfus

Ever coach someone who just can’t seem to get unstuck on the road to their destiny? Our first instinct as coaches is to help the person identify circumstances that block them or internal obstacles that hold them back, and then find a way around those obstacles. We operate this way because of a core belief most coaches share: that every person has a God-given destiny, and that anyone can find and follow that destiny today.

But what if our fundamental beliefs about destiny are wrong? Does everyone really have a destiny? And...
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Is Coaching Too Time Intensive by Tim Cosby, M.Div, CLC

One of the obstacles to creating a culture of coaching in organizations is the belief that coaching is too time-intensive. The argument is that it takes less time to tell people what to do than…
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Are Action Steps Essential? by Dr. Keith E. Webb

If the practice of coaching were to be boiled down to it's two core functions you are left with reflection for insights and action steps for application. Yet, some people struggle with coaching action steps. They view stimulating reflection as virtuous and the main job of a coach, while generating action steps as too pragmatic and therefore optional.
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Build People, Don’t Solve Problems

Build People, Don’t Solve Problems As coaches, we can choose to focus on becoming or on doing: on preparing people’s character for eternity or on making sure things are done right today. In practical terms, we…
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Pure In Heart, by Marian Struble

I am always amazed at the ways God speaks to me. When I’m listening, the message is so clear, even though it often comes to me in unexpected form.
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How to Apologize without Saying You’re Sorry, by Tony Stoltzfus

Apologies are important: ever been in a situation where you got really hurt and the other individual wouldn't even so much as apologize to you? That's one of the ultimate snubs: you got hurt, but…
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Receiving: The Gift of the Season, by Ginny Victory

"On coming to the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts of gold and of incense and myrrh."
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Intuition Clues: How to See the Need for Character Growth

Here are some clues I listen for that might indicate an opportunity to reframe the situation in terms of character growth (ala Romans 8:28): Dissonance Your words don't fit your values, Christian worldview, etc. Is a leadership…
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