Professional Christian Coaching Today

The right question asked at the right time in the right way can create new insights, open greater possibilities, and generate tremendous motivation. This kind of powerful questioning is at the core of what we do as coaches.

In today’s episode, Michael Powers helps us take this core skill even deeper as you learn how to...

• Move beyond formulaic questions to truly dance in the moment
• Stretch your client by blending both the art and the science of powerful questioning
• Honor the client’s uniqueness by tapping into your own creativity

About Michael Powers:

Michael works with others on their next best step upward. With a background that includes engineering, corporate strategy, and marketing, admittedly, he’s a bit of a strange combination of left and right brain thinking. His blend of creative and analytical skills enables him to assess complicated, multi-disciplinary issues, and help create the right path to success.

As a marketing and sales executive, he designed and implemented complex corporate strategies, and has a track record of solid results. The companies he has been a part of have grown by more than four times in five years.

He’s now focusing his efforts on assisting even more companies learn how to grow through executive coaching, asking the tough questions, and joining clients across the country as they move their businesses upward. He’s learned to play to his strengths, and help others do the same.

Michael feels blessed to be married to his best friend, and a father to four children, ages 26 to 11, two daughters-in-law, and one grandchild. He and his wife have also developed a passion for Haiti. He counts faith, family and friendships as his greatest treasures. He feels fortunate to have had great mentors along the way, and hopes to pass along a bit of w hat he’s learned to others to help them in their journey.

Connect with Michael at www.UpstairsConsulting.com.

Click here for more information on “The Art and Science of Powerful Questions,” the new course at the Professional Christian Coaching Institute.

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The world is changing at an exponential rate, and that raises some important questions. What is the best way to get your message out to potential clients? How can you market your business both efficiently and effectively? In this episode, we’ll reveal the most current marketing trends and to use them to your greatest advantage.

You’ll learn:

• How to break through the 9,000+ pieces of information your prospects are exposed to every day.
• The sound principles behind the latest trends.
• Actionable ideas you can put to use right away.

Learn more about Marketing Momentum here: www.KimAveryCoaching.com/mm

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Your brand is more than a recognizable logo. It embodies who God created you to be and who He designed you to serve. You need to make sure your brand is a clear and authentic reflection of that.

Join us for this episode where we will discover:

• The danger in not knowing yourself and how others perceive you
• Key ways to discover your own unique value
• How to discern what your competitive advantage is
• The importance of communicating your unique value and its return on investment (ROI)

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What would it be like for you to engage in meaningful, purposeful, and profitable daily work? How can you cultivate a Kingdom mindset of abundance that translates into a God-honoring lifestyle for you and those you love?

Today’s guest, Dan Miller, author of the popular book 48 Days to the Work You Love, answers these questions and more as he shares how he draws on God’s unlimited resources to fill his cup and then serves others from the overflow of His abundance.

Specifically, Dan addresses these three themes, illustrating each topic with stories from his life:

• Resolving the internal struggle all coaches face as they transition into coaching.
• Launching your private practice
• Setting up your business and the importance of charging a market rate for your coaching services

Other key takeaways include:

1. How coaches can prepare themselves emotionally for the weight of their success
2. Why it’s riskier to stay in an employee mindset than adopt the entrepreneurial mindset
3. How surrounding yourself with the right people sparks creativity and innovation
4. And more

Dan Miller, President of 48 Days LLC, specializes in creative thinking for increased personal and business success. He believes that meaningful work blends our natural skills and abilities, our unique personality traits and our dreams and passions. Dan is active in helping individuals redirect careers, evaluate new income sources, and achieve balanced living. He believes that a clear sense of direction can help us become all that God designed us to be.

Dan is the author of the widely acclaimed 48 Days To The Work You Love and No More Mondays. He writes regularly for many popular magazines and web portals, including CBN.com, Crosswalk.com, In Touch, AARP and Success magazines and the Zig Ziglar newsletter. He has been a guest on CBS’ ‘The Early Show,’ MSNBC’s ‘Hardball with Chris Mathews,’ 700 Club’s Living The Life and Fox Business News with Dave Ramsey Show…to hit some highlights. He hosts a weekly podcast that is consistently ranked #1 under Careers on iTunes. Dan is also a frequent speaker and guest on popular radio programs like Moody Broadcasting, Crown Financial, Janet Parshall’s America, American Family Radio, and Prime Time Chicago. He also has an online community with over 14,000 “eaglepreneurs”!

To learn more about Dan, visit 48days.com. If you’re interested in joining a community of creative entrepreneurs, visit Dan’s secondary site at www.48days.net. One final resource you can find on Dan’s site at www.48days.com/clients is his free download, 10 Tips for Getting Your First Coaching Client.

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Welcome to Episode 2 of the Professional Christian Coaching TODAY podcast. In today’s episode, Chris McCluskey and Kim Avery take a closer look at the term Professional Christian Coaching by addressing each component of the name and answering three important questions: What is coaching? What makes it professional coaching? What makes it Christian professional coaching?

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• Why coaching is like showing up to facilitate a monologue
• How key coaching tools, such as active listening and powerful questions aid the process
• Why aligning yourself with such research-based professional organizations as the Professional Christian Coaching Institute, the International Coach Federation, and Christian Coaches Network International matters to both you and your clients
• How the Holy Spirit works through the skills of the coach and the relational connection to call forth what God has placed within each client

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You ask; we listen! Today, we’re opening our virtual mailbox to answer your questions about coaching around addictions, helping clients maintain momentum and more.

Tune in to learn:

• How to discern if coaching or counseling is more appropriate for men and women recovering from addictions
• How to help clients follow through on their goals and sustain momentum
• How to set a clear agreement that lasts during times of change

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One of the most important things coaches bring about in sessions is clarity—what matters, what’s most important, what would be different if change occurs. Since clarity comes up over and over in coaching and is core to the work coaches do, Gary Wood joins us today to share and explain his ground-breaking Clarity & Momentum Model.

Learn:

• How using the Clarity & Momentum Model can crystallize your client’s awareness

• How to help clients move from overwhelm to achievement as they minimize burnout potential and zero in on the most important things

• How to turn information into new knowledge and potential so your clients can move forward more effectively

About Gary Wood:

Gary Wood, PCC, CMCC, BCC has decades of experience and expertise in business, non-profit and ministry environments. Over that time he has played a respected role in training, developing and building into the lives of hundreds of leaders who make significant contributions worldwide.

Since 1998, through his professional coaching firm, G.E. Wood & Associates, Gary has worked with an international clientele of executives, leaders and professionals across a broad range of personal, professional and organizational concerns.

He is frequently retained to help individuals deal with burnout and by corporate, government, small business, nonprofit and ministry leaders to get clarity and find solutions to problems that are impacting progress on causes, projects and programs of importance.

Gary was the past President and Director of Christian Coaches Network International, a support and credentialing organization for professional Christian coaches, many of whom were trained at PCCI.

Gary is a designated Professional Certified Coach (PCC) through the International Coach Federation, a Board Certified Coach through the Center for Credentialing and Education, and a Certified Master Christian Coach through Christian Coaches Network.

Gary works from his office in the beautiful Muskoka region of Ontario, Canada. He is married to Alice who he fell for in Grade 8. Visit his website at www.gewood.com.

Learn more about Clarity & Momentum here: www.actionplanachiever.com

Get in touch with Gary Wood: www.gewood.com

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Focusing on clients’ strengths is a powerful strategy when it comes to helping them increase productivity and keep moving forward. In today’s podcast, we’ve got the information you need to begin incorporating strengths-based coaching into your next session.

Explore:

• The science and art of strengths-based coaching so you can balance your knowledge and intuition, to maximize clients’ momentum
• How strengths-based coaching differs from other approaches so you can understand how to leverage the techniques in your coaching sessions
• Differences between a talent theme and a strength and what makes a strengths-approach more powerful than dealing with weaknesses
• The scriptural basis for strengths-based coaching
• How to integrate the core competencies of coaching with strengths-based coaching so you can maintain the integrity of your practice

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, work 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.

Join his vision to champion strengths for global excellence at www.brentobannon.com & www.strengthschampion.com 

Take Brent’s free Breakthrough With Strengths online course here:

https://brentobannon.com/breakthrough-with-strengths/ 

Strengths-Based Coaching Class starts April 26, 2018. Learn more here: http://professionalchristiancoaching.com/strengths-based-coaching/

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Coaches work with clients to help them create positive changes—in relationships, careers, finances, self-care practices, and more. Often our clients have lots of energy when it comes to dreaming and designing the changes they want to make, but they begin to lose motivation when it comes to long term implementation. Today, we’ve got solutions to help you support your clients in making changes that last.

Discover:

• 7 key forces for long-lasting change
• Why quick rewards trump delayed rewards when it comes to change
• 6 characteristics of communities that support change
• Important principles to honor when going through change
• Key neurohacks for faster change

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Are you in tune with how to provide ethical coaching? Setting the foundation for coaching relationships and for each coaching session needs to be the basis of your coaching practice. So whether you’re new to coaching or have been coaching for years, this is an important episode to help you stay in alignment with best practices.

We’ll cover:

• Overview of the 4 sections of 11 Core Competencies of the International Coach Federation (ICF) so you’re familiar with the big picture
• Ethics and risk management principles every coach needs to know
• Raising the standard to ensure you follow the spirit of the law as well as the letter of the law

About Michael Marx

Michael J. Marx, MBA, EdD, PCC is a Professional Certified Coach specializing in business coaching and corporate consultation. A gifted teacher, Michael holds a BA from Oral Roberts University, an MBA from the University of Louisiana at Monroe, and an EdD in Adult Education from Regent University. His passion is adult learning and he serves on the faculties of Concordia University Wisconsin (teaching MBA International Business, and MBA International Finance), and the Professional Christian Coaching Institute (teaching Coaching Skills Mastery, and Ethics & Risk Management).

Irrepressibly adventurous, Michael and his wife Joy lived and worked in Europe for over two decades. More recently, they traveled the U.S. and Canada in an RV, operating their location-neutral businesses and coaching/teaching via internet video. A patch of the Rocky Mountains of Colorado is now called home. Their German golden retriever, DzAngel,dz writes a blog (in two languages!) about her family’s adventures at TravelsWithAngel.wordpress.com.

A strong advocate for professionalism in Christian coaching, Michael has served on the International Coach Federation Global Ethics & Standards committee and on the Ethics subcommittee for educating coaches on ethical practices. He currently serves as the leader of the ICF Global Community of Practice on Ethics. Additionally, he is the president of Christian Coaches Network International.

Michael is a sought-after subject matter expert. He often speaks and conducts workshops on trust building, coaching relationships, ethics, evidence-based coaching, and one-to-one (dyadic) learning. His hobbies include skiing and dog sledding. But his greatest joy comes from mentoring. Learn more about Michael at www.BlazingNewTrailsCoaching.com.

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