Mastering Coaching Skills

I recently spoke to a coach about joining my certification, and she thought she wasn't in the right place to join yet because she isn't interested in creating her own intellectual property. If you're thinking you need to create brand new coaching tools and concepts from scratch in order to achieve coaching mastery, it's time to reconsider your position.

Discover why you don't need your own coaching tools, concepts, and intellectual property to become an expert coach. I'm sharing my thoughts on how we've gotten to this place in the industry as coaches, and you'll learn why leaning too heavily on your intellectual property could actually harm your coaching practice.

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We all have people we admire and look up to, and maybe even think are superhuman. In the coaching industry, there's a tendency to fall into the trap of believing that other coaches belong to a different breed of humans or can effortlessly do things we can't, but putting them on a pedestal in this way is hurting you in more ways than one.

Learn why it's unhelpful to put coaches on pedestals, and how doing so is hurting you. I'm showing you the lessons and opportunities you miss out on when you're focused on how someone else is doing something you don't think you can achieve, why you must always question other people's opinions, and I'm sharing some quirks about me that prove I'm 100% human too.

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Now is the perfect time to start looking ahead and thinking about the future of your coaching business. January is just around the corner, and it's important that you do the work now to get your mindset embedded in the energy you want to carry into 2024.

Tune in this week to start the work of deciding what you want your coaching business to look like for the next 12 months. I'm discussing how my brain thinks about making decisions that affect the future of my coaching practice, and I'm giving you exercises and prompts to help you decide what your ideal coaching business looks like as you look ahead to 2024.

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Every once in a while, I check in with myself and my business to really uncover how everything's going. I do this with my schedule, my productivity, and what I'm offering my clients. This means I shake things up every so often in my coaching spaces, and I'm showing you where you might want to do the same.

Discover how to evaluate your coaching business, decide what's working for you, and start changing everything that isn't. I'm showing you how I do this work in my business, and I'm giving you some inspiration for shaking up your own coaching practice so you can feel amazing while you're hard at work.

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If you have more than one offer and you want to help people see clearly who each one is for, or even if you just have one offer and you want to communicate it better, today's episode is for you.

Discover how to start clearly defining and differentiating your offers for potential clients. I'm sharing how I think about this process, giving you practical examples, and showing you how to implement anything that resonates with you in this episode.

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Integrity is a word that gets thrown around a lot in the coaching industry. Living in accordance with my deepest values is how I like to think about being in integrity as a coach. However, it often means different things to different people. If you've seen examples of integrity that don't align with your definition of it, it's time to redefine it for yourself.

Discover what it means to have integrity as a coach and how to define it for yourself. I'm sharing four ways you might be using the concept of integrity against yourself, how it's acting as a disservice to you and your clients, and what actually cultivates trust, safety, and respect with your clients.

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If you've been curious about what goes on in my Advanced Certification in Coaching Mastery, you're going to love this episode. With the next certification kicking off in February 2024, now's the perfect time to hear from coaches who've been in your shoes, wondering if it's the right fit.

Teresa Haag joins me this week and we're giving you a behind-the-scenes look at the Advanced Certification in Coaching Mastery. Teresa shares her own story, why she decided to sign up, and the big takeaways she got from the program. It's real talk, filled with everything you need to know to see if this certification will benefit you and your clients.

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It's been 18 months since I first launched The Coach Lab, and I've had some great learnings and takeaways that I'd like to share with you this week. I couldn't have imagined how beneficial it was going to be at the beginning, helping many coaches, and I hope my lessons learned will help you up-level your own coaching practice.

Hear six of the biggest lessons I've learned over the last year and a half of running The Coach Lab. I'm sharing the patterns I've seen over time that relate to navigating feedback, selling to cold traffic, enhancing the value inside the program, and much more.

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What does it mean to be a coach, and what do we all have in common? I believe we're here to help people create a specific result in their lives. But what separates us as coaches is how we help our clients get results and the tools we use in the process. What your coaching style looks like is truly up to you.

Discover why there is no specific way coaching should look, especially in the early days of working with a client. I'm discussing why you might think mindset and thought work is the place to start, and instead, I'm sharing how to actually get your clients moving from day one in a way that's authentic to you.

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Coach Sara Fisk believes that people pleasing is a plague on womanhood. She's had her own experience of being a people pleaser, and since addressing this issue in her own life, she's perfectly positioned to help others do the same. She says that learning to stop people pleasing is intense, but doing so will give you back your time, brain space, and energy.

Discover how people pleasing might be holding you back as a coach. We're discussing why we need to have a deep conversation about people pleasing our clients, Sara's experience of people pleasing in the early days of her coaching, and what changes in your life and practice when you can drop your people pleasing.

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