Professional Christian Coaching Today

Take the guesswork out of defining your coaching niche. In this episode, you’ll learn the three major benefits of niching your coaching practice, as well as these bonuses.

Understand:

• How confidence and clarity are more important than the actual niche.
• How to maximize your marketing time and leverage your resources.
• How narrowing your focus produces greater visibility.

Do you ever wonder how successful coaches secure clients? Here’s the secret: they schedule inquiry calls that really work. Take the guesswork off your to-do list and listen in to find out how you can start serving more clients and earning the income you deserve.

You’ll learn how to:

• Take the pressure off issuing the invitation by creating a strategic list of people who are already interested.
• Take the mystery out of what to say by walking through the Two-Path Model that leads to success.
• Step out and get started today!

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We’re opening the mailbag today and sharing the answers to your most-asked questions! Today, we’re responding to four questions related to niche identification, generating income, growing mailing lists, business diversification, and capitalizing on opportunities awaiting in Facebook Groups. So, if you’re looking to gain the information you need to move forward in your business, tune in to gain the insights about which you’ve been most curious.

You’ll learn more about:

• How to identify and reach the people in your niche so your marketing efforts do not go unnoticed.
• How to turn your mindset from problems to possibilities so you can stay alert to the best opportunities to stay in front of your niche and serve them well.
• How to expand your mailing list, using the attraction of things that are free, so you can overcome the penny gap and build your client base.
• How to earn a family-sustaining income doing what you do best—coaching—and maximize your impact while you work in your sweet spot.

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The Christian coaching movement is growing and with it, our need for connection. Join us live, in person, to connect with other coaching professionals! You’ll not only receive deeper connections with like-minded people, encouragement, professional development, collaboration, referrals, affiliates, and a rekindled excitement around your practice; you’ll get to bask in the glow of a strong community of Professional Christian Coaches.

Added Benefits:

• Enjoy workshops designed to enhance your coaching practice such as:
  • Maximize Your Virtual Presence
  • Public Speaking
  • Coaching Among the Church
  • Assessments (DiSC and Enneagram)
• All-inclusive lodging, meals, and retreat experiences.
• Retreat content will provide ICF approved CCEUs for credential renewal. Make one dual-purpose investment in yourself and your business.

Get more information and reserve your spot now: https://professionalchristiancoaching.com/retreat

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New research findings in leadership coaching are rare because Professional Coaching is still a relatively new field, so we’re excited to share fresh, well-done research on Leadership Coaching from a seasoned expert in Professional Coaching and Human Development. Whether your niche is geared more toward executives, organizational leaders, work teams, or individuals, you’ll discover new treasures for your coaching toolbox in today’s podcast.

Takeaway Value: 

• Understand current statistics behind what motivates coaches most, so you stay in check with honoring yours and your clients’ greatest values
• Uncover the correlations between self-leadership and success as a coach so you can bring the best of who you are into every coaching session
• Turn your life-long-love of learning into advancement as you become more relevant to your clients and those you influence

About Fran LaMattina:

Fran is the President and Founder of Strategies for Greatness, LLC, an executive coaching practice that serves leaders of organizations and work teams to be more effective.  Fran has been coaching since 1999, achieving a Master Coach Certification (MCC) and Board Certified Coach designation (BCC) in the early days of the profession.  Recently, Fran completed a Doctorate in Professional Coaching and Human Development (Ph.D.). She has established a niche with organizational leaders, especially in the areas of strategic planning, team effectiveness, assessments, and emotional intelligence.

Fran draws from over 20 years of business experience in the areas of marketing, sales/business development, finance, technology, operations, and organizational development prior to entering the coaching profession.  She has personally led and coached in several business sectors including consumer products, general contracting, healthcare, telecommunications, financial services, and non-profits. Before creating her private coaching practice, she was the Director of Marketing Public Relations and a Partner with Ronald Blue & Co, a personal financial planning firm. She has been an adjunct professor at Richmont Graduate University (formerly Psychological Studies Institute) and taught at The Institute for Life Coach Training and The Academies. She presently teaches Leadership Development Coaching and Team Coaching at The Professional Christian Coaching Institute.

Fran’s Ph.D. in Professional Coaching and Human Development through the International University of Professional Studies was focused on the self-leadership practices of successful coaches. She received her initial coaching education through Coach Inc. Prior to establishing herself professionally in executive coaching and leadership consulting, Fran attended Purdue University, graduating with a Masters degree in Industrial Relations.

She founded and developed the women’s ministry at North Point Community Church, where she led a team and over 125 community group leaders in the church. During her twelve years under the leadership of Andy Stanley at North Point, she refined and applied relevant, visionary principles of leadership to her coaching platform which flow into her day-to-day coaching of both individual clients and teams in her practice.

Fran has been both an active member and officer on the boards of several organizations such as Seeds of Hope, Ministry Ventures, The Lighthouse Family Retreat, Richmont Graduate University, Half Time of Georgia, Whitefield Academy, The Christian Coaching Network, Denver Ministries and her neighborhood association. Fran is single and lives in Alpharetta, GA, a northern suburb of Atlanta, Georgia.

Reach out to Fran at [email protected]

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Counseling is very helpful for those going through the pain of a separation, divorce or widowhood. But when that individual is ready for fresh vision, new growth, and planning the next season of their lives, coaching is an ideal fit. Today, our guest, Georgia Shaffer will share her experiences of how to work with those clients when they are asking the all-important question, “what’s next?”

You’ll learn...

• How to determine when someone who has experienced a loss is ready for coaching
• The benefits of group coaching for those in transition
• Specific ways to help your clients when they are transitioning into a new season

About Georgia Shaffer

Georgia Shaffer, PCC, CPLC, is a professional certified coach, a professional speaker, and the author of 6 books including as Coaching the Coach: Life Coaching Stories and Tips for Transforming Lives, Taking Out Your Emotional Trash and Avoiding the 12 Relationship Mistakes Women Make. She equips women through ReBUILD, a small group coaching experience for those struggling to begin again and move forward after unwanted change. She also coaches authors, speakers or pastors who want to sharpen their messages and make their stories memorable. Visit www.GeorgiaShaffer.com to learn more.

40 Questions to Clarify What’s Most Important to You: Download Georgia’s helpful free resource at www.GeorgiaShaffer.com.

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In our scroll and go culture: Can people 1) easily find you online 2) stay engaged with what you’re sharing and 3) act on what you’re hoping they’ll do? While it can seem daunting to create compelling content, it doesn’t have to be complicated. We have an easier way—a way that will cost you less time, energy, and money. Tune in to discover the 7 keys and marketing principles that will help you keep your content creation simple, relevant, and powerful!

You'll walk away with a 7-step checklist and: 

• Marketing principles designed to help you deliver exactly what your audience wants so they can find your content and share it with others.
• The questions you need to ask so you can provide the simple, yet effective answers people need to move toward their goals.
• Information on how to share, instead of sell, so you can honor your values and provide life-giving content to others.
• Conversation starters that are proven to convert prospects into clients so you can build the know, like, trust factor with your audience.

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If you're struggling to get your kids to cooperate so you can work in and on your business, you’ll hear from two successful stay-at-home parents who share the golden nuggets you need to help you succeed. Whether you’re managing a coaching practice or other business pursuits, you’ll discover practical answers to some of your most-asked questions.

Arm yourself with:

• Strategies for scheduling time to have the house to yourself so you have a quiet place to focus on your clients and your business
• How to protect your uninterrupted time so you can maximize the blessings to you and your clients
• Perspectives on moving toward success, even if you’re not yet seeing clients, so you can build a solid base for your business and grow from there

About Rachel McCluskey

Rachel McCluskey is Chancellor for Professional Christian Coaching Institute and co-leader and technical consultant for the bi-monthly business support group, The Christian Coaches’ Power Lunch. She is a life coach specializing in work with women around parenting and vision for motherhood.

She and her husband, Chris speak at national conferences, churches, and marriage retreats and have been interviewed on numerous radio programs and magazines on marriage, sexuality, parenting, and life coaching. Rachel and Chris are best-selling authors of When Two Become One and are contributing authors in several Christian books on marriage and parenting. A former public school educator and now a homeschooling mom of seven children, her greatest enjoyment is spending time as a family and learning together. Rachel’s interests include reading, theology, health, gourmet cooking, animals, and enjoys finding ways to turn the simple things in life into celebrations.

About Ruthie Slingerland

Ruthie has a passion for entrepreneurship and marriage. She helps overwhelmed women dare to dream, discover their strengths and draft their future so they can have the successful and balanced life God has for them.

Ruthie’s entrepreneurial journey started at the age of 19 when she launched her career as a Christian music artist in her native Puerto Rico. Over the course of 4 years, she performed her songs and ministered to thousands. Soon she realized she needed to step off the stage; a difficult decision that eventually lead her to coaching as a new form of ministry.

For over a decade, Ruthie worked in the language and education field as a professional Spanish interpreter, university language instructor, and adult educator.

Missions have always been near to Ruthie’s heart, especially being able to help women of all backgrounds create a sustainable form of income without sacrificing their family’s quality of life. She was recently in Peru serving as an interpreter for her church staff. Ruthie encouraged women to tap into their God-given talents and find financial freedom by learning to create a plan and save.

The Slingerlands have a successful online Amazon business that has given them the ability to become debt free, live in the location of their dreams and homeschool their four children while traveling often.

Ruthie loves languages, enjoys singing to the tune of Jamie’s guitar & communicating deeply with others.

You can find out more about Ruthie at www.FreedomLifeJourney.com.

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Have you tasted and seen the incredible impact of coaching? Whether you’re a coach, leader or influencer in business or in ministry, we’re unpacking the reasons for replacing top-down, directive managerial models with a coach approach to your leadership. Get ready to tackle your greatest challenges in new, improved ways.

Listen in to benefit from:

• A coach approach that replaces traditional command and control approaches with a co-created process so you can powerfully come alongside the people you influence
• The 3 components of a coach approach that will maximize the resources you already have so implementation is successful and seamless
• Strategies on how to provoke thought, encourage creativity and foster inspiration among your team so you can uncover and overcome current challenges

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If you haven’t tried a coach approach to your leadership, you’re missing a key opportunity to focus on serving instead of selling, and getting buy in from your team and your clients. We’ll share how superior performance is learned by leaders developing leaders, instead of spending thousands of dollars on courses and conferences. We’ll also provide insights that are integral as you implement a coach approach to servant leadership:

• how to turn performance into service so you can change results into rewards
• how to NOT be the leader you’ve dreaded working for so you can be the leader everyone wants to follow 
• how to employ the 6 behaviors critical to serving people well so you can reap a return on your investment 

About Cheryl Bachelder

Cheryl A. Bachelder is a passionate restaurant industry executive and former CEO of Popeyes® Louisiana Kitchen, Inc. Cheryl is known for her crisp strategic thinking, franchisee-focused approach, superior financial performance and the development of outstanding leaders and teams.

Cheryl joined Popeyes, Louisiana Kitchen, Inc., in November 2007, after serving as an active member of the Board for a year. She brought more than 35 years of experience in brand building, operations, and public-company management at companies like Yum Brands, Domino’s Pizza, RJR Nabisco, The Gillette Company, and The Procter & Gamble Company.

At Popeyes, Cheryl promptly established a Road Map for Results. This strategic framework led to market share gains of eight points, improved guest ratings, and increased restaurant margins (400 basis points in seven years). The improvement in restaurant performance led franchisees to remodel the system and accelerate new unit growth both in the U.S. and abroad. In eight years, the enterprise market cap grew from less than $300 million to over $1.3 billion. At fiscal year-end 2015, Popeyes’ system-wide revenues were $3.1 billion. These revenues were generated by over 2,539 restaurants operated by 360 franchisees and more than 60,000 restaurant employees in the United States, three territories, and 27 foreign countries.

Ms. Bachelder created a culture based on the Popeyes Purpose: to inspire servant leaders to achieve superior results. This purpose was expressed in the six principles of how they worked together. The Popeyes team focus was to serve the franchise owners well; together they pursued a bold ambition for the enterprise. This produced exceptional performance results. In March 2015, Ms. Bachelder published a book chronicling the tenets of the Popeyes turnaround, entitled Dare to Serve, Second Edition – How to drive superior results by serving others.

Ms. Bachelder has served on the board of directors for Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen, Inc., since 2006; board of directors for Pier 1 Imports, Inc., since 2012; the advisory board of Agile Pursuits Franchising, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Procter & Gamble, since 2009; and the International Franchise Association since February 2015. She also served on the board of directors for True Value Company from 2007 – 2012 and on the board of the National Restaurant Association May 2009 – 2012. In November 2014, Cheryl was certified as an NACD Board Leadership Fellow.

Prior to serving as Popeyes CEO, Ms. Bachelder revitalized brand performance in both retail and consumer goods companies. She was president and chief concept officer for KFC Corporate (2001-2003), creating growth plans for the U.S. business in collaboration with the franchise owners. From 1995 – 2000, Ms. Bachelder served as vice president of marketing and product development for Domino’s Pizza, Inc. She was the brand architect responsible for contemporizing the restaurant chain’s image and launching the innovative Heatwave bag which improved product quality and drove strong same-store sales growth for five consecutive years across 5,400 units. Prior to her restaurant experience, Ms. Bachelder served as general manager of the LifeSavers Division of RJR Nabisco. Her early career years included brand management roles at The Gillette Company and The Procter & Gamble Company.

In September 2015, Cheryl was awarded The Norman Brinker Award from Nation’s Restaurant News. She has been profiled in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, and was named by CNBC’s Jim Cramer as one of his “21 Bankable CEOs” for 2014. In 2012, she was recognized as “Leader of the Year” by the Women’s Foodservice Forum, and received the Silver Plate Award from the International Foodservice Manufacturers Association.

Ms. Bachelder holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration, and a Masters of Business Administration in Finance and Marketing, from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University. She has been married for over 35 years to Chris Bachelder and they have three grown daughters.

You can find out more about Cheryl Bachelder at her website: https://cherylbachelder.com/