Professional Christian Coaching Today

Establishing and maintaining a coaching agreement with your client is the foundation of everything else you do. It’s an invitation to genuine exploration as you begin a coaching relationship, but it’s also a process, something you will want to do early, often, and in-depth throughout the relationship.

Our guest today, Todd Kemp, unpacks the newly updated ICF Core Competency #3 and shares the key skills we need to practice this competency well.

Learn from a Seasoned Professional:

- How coaching agreements are at the heart of everything you do

- Zero in on the co-created relationship that makes coaching both relational and collaborative, so you can maximize the experience for your clients.

- Master the partnership with not only clients but also stakeholders, to make clear agreements about processes, plans, and goals.

About Todd Kemp

Todd Kemp, PCC is Principal of NorthWise Group (northwisegroup.com), a leadership growth coaching and facilitating firm that inspires leaders to ignite flourishing. Todd is a Professional Certified Coach and also serves as a Chair for Convene (convenenow.com), a peer advisory group of Christian CEOs and Business Owners.

After a 12-year career of systems engineering and management roles at a Fortune 150 technology company, and earning considerable scar tissue from 3 different entrepreneurial ventures including a business brokerage, a software firm, and a retail disaster, Todd sensed a clear calling in 2008 to coach business leaders who wish to grow exceptional organizations and honor God with their leadership.

A graduate of Stanford University, Todd is married to his college sweetheart, Julianne. They have two children and live near Denver, Colorado where Todd enjoys mountain biking and hiking in the majestic Rockies, investing time with family, and being a lifelong learner.

Connect with Todd at www.NorthwiseGroup.com.

Discovering the self through the arts is a key part of the work that coaches and their clients engage in to better discover and understand who God created them to be. Today's guest, Grace Anne, reminds us that enjoying and exploring aspects of God and His creation is never a waste of time. When we give space for our clients to explore their fullness and wholeness through artistic endeavors, possibilities multiply and everyone grows!

Dial-in your imagination and tune in to...

• Discover ways you can fully express yourself in the world, and encourage your clients to do the same.

• Learn how you can use creative expression (the arts) to become a more effective coach.

• Create an environment where creativity and imagination are welcomed and embraced.

About Grace Anne:

Daughter of Chris & Rachel McCluskey and recent psychology graduate, Grace Anne is the founder of Grace Anne Originals, an online mixed mediums art studio, and is the author of a new children's book, "The Winter Elf."  She is a writer, painter, and musician who delights in exploring a wide range of emotional, relational, and spiritual experiences through the arts. Inspired especially by the fiction of CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien, she seeks to express “the good, the true and the beautiful”.

Learn more about Grace Anne and The Winter Elf at www.thewinterelf.com

Register for the October Christian Coaches Café on "Creativity in Coaching" at www.ProfessionalChristianCoaching.com/cafe

Today, we continue discussions with Jeff Goins on the importance of embracing your passions and gifts, and how to share them with the world. If you haven’t already, listen to part one and embrace your identity. Then, continue with part two and begin to let your activities flow from your identity.

Market your artistic work as you embrace the:

• Importance of being connected with people and places in support of what you do so you can stay in community and collaborate with like-minded folks

• Importance of being an apprentice under a master and embracing healthy competitiveness to grow your income

• Importance of being stubborn—developing and harnessing the grit it takes to accept obstacles as opportunities to persevere

About Jeff Goins

Jeff Goins is a full-time writer who lives just outside of Nashville, Tennessee, with his wife and kids. He has authored four other books: The Art of Work, The In-Between, Wrecked, and You Are a Writer. His website, Goinswriter.com, has been visited by more than four million people from all over the world. He humbly considers himself the world’s foremost expert on guacamole.

Find “Real Artists Don’t Starve” and the bonuses here:
https://dontstarve.com

Many coaches wonder if they can really make a living doing what they are passionate about. Today, we’ll discuss the importance of embracing your passions and gifts and taking the necessary risks to bring them to the world.

Unlock your potential as you discover:

• The difference between your vocation and occupation so you can listen to the song of your own heart and have the courage to sing it

• How to choose your role and own your identity so you don’t have to fake it till you make it, but you can believe it until you become it

• How to develop a healthy, productive, wildly successful mindset so the stories you want to believe will come true

• How to overcome the fear of not being unique and original so you can understand how to be innovative in today’s world

About Jeff Goins

Jeff Goins is a full-time writer who lives just outside of Nashville, Tennessee, with his wife and kids. He has authored four other books: The Art of Work, The In-Between, Wrecked, and You Are a Writer. His website, Goinswriter.com, has been visited by more than four million people from all over the world. He humbly considers himself the world’s foremost expert on guacamole.

Find “Real Artists Don’t Starve” and the bonuses here:
https://dontstarve.com

You are a culture-shaper. As a Christian coach, you are uniquely equipped to draw out of others “the Good, the True, and the Beautiful” that God has placed in them. Join Chris McCluskey as he shares a behind-the-scenes look from his speaking engagement with coaches Greg Leith and Helen Mitchell at the C.S. Lewis Foundation and learns practical ways to influence culture in the 21st century.

Discover how to…

• Find and fulfill the central purpose of your life so you can influence generations to come

• Use direct communication to irrigate the spiritual deserts in our everyday world

• Align your life with your day-to-day activities to intentionally live out your calling in the world

Once again, it's time to address the questions from your e-mails, voicemails, texts, and online messages. Are you are having a hard time getting clients? Finding it difficult to coach clients around their vision? Need creative ways to keep your business moving forward during the COVID-19 Coronavirus Crisis? 

We've got answers to your questions and ideas that will move your business forward:

1) I don't like selling, pressuring, or pestering people. Am I looking at coaching enrollment the wrong way?

2) What suggestions and resources do you have/use to help clients draw out their dreams?

3) If you had 10 hrs. a week to grow your coaching business, how would you spend it?

4) What are creative ways to differentiate my business during COVID, so I can keep it alive?

Excellence wins: an interview with Horst Schultze is a conversation you truly can't afford to miss. We'll unpack how and why excellence wins. Listen as both a business owner and a skilled coach explains how it’s not about tasks but tapping into your being and purpose. You'll uncover valuable principles that will enable you to help raise up a powerful culture and absolutely change the world.

Cash in:

• Learn how to define yourself as a person of excellence so you can receive the respect you deserve and serve people well.

• Understand how your essence, being, and personhood are more important than your doing, so you can rise above the noise of your tasks.

• Bolster the culture of your business or organization so you can refuel your working environment and create unshakable alignment.

About Horst Schulze

A legend and leader in the hotel world, Horst Schulze's teachings and vision have reshaped the concepts of service and hospitality across industries.

Mr. Schulze's professional life began more than 65 years ago as a server's assistant in a German resort town. Throughout the years he worked for both Hilton Hotels and Hyatt Hotels Corporation before becoming one of the founding members of The Ritz Carlton Hotel Company in 1983. There Mr. Schulze created the operating and service standards that have become world-famous.

During his tenure at The Ritz Carlton, Mr. Schulze served as President and COO responsible for the $2 billion operations worldwide. It was under his leadership that The Ritz Carlton Hotel Company was awarded the prestigious Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award- twice- making it the first and only hotel company to ever win even one.

In 1991, Mr. Schulze was recognized as "corporate hotelier of the world" by HOTELS Magazine. In 1995, he was awarded the Ishikawa Medal for his personal contributions to the quality movement. In 1999, Johnson & Wales University gave him an honorary Doctor of Business Administration degree in Hospitality Management. Most recently, Mr. Schulze has been honored as a “Leader in Luxury” by Travel Agent Magazine and its sister publication luxury Travel Advisor.

After leaving The Ritz Carlton Hotel Company, Mr. Schulze went onto found The Capella Hotel Group. This luxury hotel company managed some of the most elite properties worldwide and gave Mr. Schulze the opportunity to further define the luxury hotel industry, receiving countless awards and recognitions.

Today, Mr. Schulze serves on various boards and acts as a consultant across industries. He is currently completing his seminal book on creating excellence.

Multiplying strengths for Kingdom results in yields outcomes beyond your wildest dreams or imagination. But don't take our word for it. Today, you'll hear from our guest expert: the first Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach in the world. Together, we'll glean both practical and theoretical information on how to maximize the CliftonStrengths StrengthsFinder Assessment. 

Authenticate your calling and purpose as you:

• Learn how to unpack your specific strengths so you can lean into and lead with multiplied talents and investments.

• Think through your personal and professional vision, as you stand on Bedrock Truths and become stronger with a fortified vision.

• Clear up the mess and confusion around figuring out what work God has called you to, so you can become clear about how to carry out your mission.

• Understand how to apply strengths to emotional intelligence, so you can become more adept in an area crucial to great leadership.

• Apply your strengths to business-building, so you can catapult your coaching practice, even in the midst of the COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic. 

About Brent O’Bannon
Brent O’Bannon is a PCC and the first GALLUP-Certified Strengths Coach in the world.

He coaches and champions leaders, entrepreneurs, and multi-million dollar companies to grow stronger, works smarter, and live richer with their strengths.

Brent teaches the PCCI Strengths-Based Coaching course and is a recent Amazon #1 best-selling author of Selling Strengths: A Little Book for Executive and Life Coaches About Using Your Strengths to Get Paying Clients.

Learn more about Brent www.brentobannon.com.

Strengths-Based Coaching Class starts on September 28, 2020. Learn more here: http://professionalchristiancoaching.com/strengths-based-coaching/

Creating a virtual studio in your home is easier and more accessible than you think. In today's podcast, we're sharing how to use free or low-cost tools to build your own virtual studio relatively easily, quickly, and powerfully. Your coaching practice can potentially explode by tapping into some of these possibilities. 

Tune in to discover:

• How to employ technology by using the latest technological advances as you work with people from around the world

• All about camera quality, lighting, and backgrounds. We've got the simple steps you need to tackle the barriers that keep you from presenting a professional image online.

• How to build a portfolio career and maximize various ways you can use technology from anywhere in the world, so you can grow your business, right from your own home.

Learn More about our Strengths-Based Coaching course: https://professionalchristiancoaching.com/strengths-based-coaching/

About Rudy Graham:

Rudy resides in Maryland with his college sweetheart, wife, best friend, and coaching business partner, Wilmer.  They met in college at the University of NC at Charlotte and have been married for 37 years.

Rudy has worked for three global companies of very different scales in the past thirty-eight years, selling technical solutions to people who use technology to advance and change the world.

The technologies and technical solutions have changed over the years, but the positive experience of working with people has remained constant.

In parallel to his sales career, he launched and operated a Specialty Coffeehouse for four and a half years. He also served on the Diaconate Ministry in his local church for ten years, caring for and supporting about fifty families.  

Rudy is a self-trained chef and a baker of all things made with Einkorn flour.

Learn more or connect with Rudy at www.soar.com/RudyGraham 

We have encouragement for you today, Coach, so you don't let the dream die. Whether you just started out, were already in the midst of business-building, or ran a thriving practice before COVID-19 came onto the scene, no matter your situation, if you have a coaching dream, today’s episode will give you the tools you need to stay the course.

You'll takeaway: 

• 3 Biblical truths to help you remain rooted so you remember how this will all end.

• 3 things you need to keep top of mind, in the middle of the mess, so you can engage your heart and mind to thrive in these challenging times.

• 3 ways to reground so you can apply practical action steps, today, and keep coaching.

• 3 paths to help you navigate the way from the pandemic, through your Godly passion, to the Promise.

Sign up for Kim Avery’s Free Bite-Sized Business Building Bootcamp, five days of mini-marketing training overflowing with prizes, tools, templates, resources, and lots of fun. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to move your business forward. For more information and to sign up, go to www.KimAveryCoaching.com/biz.