Professional Christian Coaching Today

Brent O’Bannon, the world’s first Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach, shares his experience and expertise about strengths-based development and how this coaching strategy can help maximize your professional potential.

 

Turn weaknesses into strengths as you focus on:

• Switching from diagnostic, closed-ended questions to exploratory, curious questions that bring out the best in your clients.
• Empowering your clients to get clear on how to set goals and manage progress while you manage the process of coaching
• Navigating the ins and outs of setting up a successful, manageable, enjoyable business model.
• Building your coaching business as you remember your calling and step forth in your purpose.

 

About Brent O'Bannon:

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

He coaches and leads entrepreneurial leaders, sales teams, coaches and multi-million dollar companies to maximize, mobilize, and monetize their human capital 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

 

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

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

 

Register for the drawing to receive a free copy of Brent's book: Selling Strengths: A Little Book for Executive and Life Coaches About Using Your Strengths to Get Paying Clients here:

 

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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 learn 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

 

Join the conversation about shaping culture in our private Facebook group at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/professionalchristiancoaching/.

 

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An inspiring upward call in this important worldwide movement. You will: --Discover how you’re uniquely gifted to inspire, encourage, and motivate the next generation; --Assess your calling so you can activate the resources needed to live out your life vision; --Sharpen your mindset as you prepare for cultural impact.

Challenged by marketing? Most coaches are, but we’ve got bite-sized solutions that can be applied to your business as well as to the work you do with your clients. Join us as we take the power of habit formation and funnel it into a system you can begin using today!

 

Tune in for more on:

• Overcoming the 5 key obstacles to change, so you can jump over the hurdles of marketing and accomplish your business goals
• What to do when motivation fades in order to persevere through change and break through analysis paralysis
• Importance of celebrating small successes and focusing on the consistency of your work instead of constant setbacks
• An opportunity to jumpstart your own marketing habits with an interactive game and get started on your plan to build a sustainable, profitable business!

 

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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

 

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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

 

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To coach or not to coach: that is the question many coaches ask when their clients take a turn for the worse. In today’s episode, we have valuable information for all coaches on:

 

• Identifying when a coaching client needs counseling

• How to handle the referral conversation

• Getting a release form from the client that allows you to touch base with the counselor

• Navigating the transition out of coaching and into counseling

 

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Are you tired of setting goals but not reaching them? Perhaps the goals were too lofty, life’s busyness got in the way, or you hit a roadblock you didn’t know how to overcome. Whatever the difficulty, coaching can help! In today’s episode, we’ll walk you through the information you need to know to help you and your clients set meaningful goals.

 

You’ll learn… 

• Benefits of goal-setting that will help you increase motivation and productivity by as much as 25%

• Why aligning goals with vision, purpose, and mission is important not only to setting goals but ensuring you can reach them

• The difference between outcome and process goals and why setting both is key to achievement

• How to set SMART-ER goals for greater momentum

 

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Imagine being with someone who is fully present… Giving you their full attention… With you and for you as you share. That’s the heart of ICF Competency #4, Coaching Presence, and in today’s episode, Vicki Corrington, PCC will help us grow deeper into this important skill.

 

Tune in as we:

• Unpack the International Coach Federation’s (ICF) definition of coaching presence and teach practical applications for your practice

• Show you how to make the shift from providing insight and direction to encouraging risk-taking and perspective-shifting transformation

• Stress the importance of being fully present and engaged, yet invisible, so you don’t get in the way of your clients’ progress

                                                              

About Vicki Corrington, M.Ed, PCC, CPCC, BCC

Vicki Corrington is a Professional Certified Coach, Board Certified Coach, and a Certified Professional Christian Coach. She is a Coach trainer, teaching Essentials of Coaching, Coaching Skills Development Practicum, and Coaching Skills Mastery Practicum on faculty with the Professional Christian Coaching Institute (PCCI), having worked closely with Chris McCluskey since 2003. Vicki has a heart for missions and serves Youth With a Mission YWAM Leaders on the Core team for the Master’s in Christian Formation and Discipleship. Vicki is a former advisory board member and current member/presenter for the Christian Coaches Network (CCNI) and a member of International Coach Federation (ICF).

 

Waking up one day feeling as though “there were nothing left of her”, life coaching, combined with praying the word, was the process God used to transform Vicki’s life and to restore her excitement about making a difference helping others live more fully themselves, fully alive. She currently does this through one-on- one or group coaching, training and retreats… all bathed in prayer. She is a Certified Myers-Briggs Practitioner offering temperament assessment coaching services to clients and partnering with other coaches to offer temperament assessments to theirs. This tool fits well with her purpose to live in a way that her actions line up with who she is and what’s important to her…and to help facilitate that process for others.

 

You can learn more about Vicki’s Life Coaching, Mentor Coaching, and Retreat Coaching (as well as access her Readiness Checklist to determine readiness for coaching) at www.coachvicki.com. Vicki has been married to Dr. Ben Corrington since 1986 and currently lives in Camden, Maine. Together, they have been happy to serve people through professional chiropractic and coaching services as well as bringing leadership input to several churches throughout the years. Their son, daughter-in- law, and the two most adorable grandchildren ever live in Victoria, British Columbia. Too far away!

 

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Gift-ology is the unique, generous approach to initiating and strengthening relationships. In today’s interview with John Ruhlin, author of Gift-ology, you’ll learn how to use gift giving to bless others while growing your coaching business.

 

Best of all, in the spirit of gifting, we are giving away 10 copies of a special Leather-Bound Edition of Gift-ology. Click here for your opportunity to win!

 

In the meantime, tune in this episode to learn how to:

• Boost referrals, retention rates, and ROIs so you can become an influencer who reaps the rewards of fruitful relationships
• Skip the standard big-budget marketing efforts and focus on highly personalized efforts that won’t break your budget
• Maximize follow-ups by giving the best kinds of gifts and the best ways to give them!

 

About John Ruhlin:

John Ruhlin is the founder of the Ruhlin Group. John's company is trusted by the leaders of fast- growing companies to develop relationship building strategies and VIP gifting programs to increase referrals and strengthen retention with their most important clients, employees, and prospects.

Their clients include the Chicago Cubs, San Antonio Spurs, DR Horton, Morgan Stanley, St Louis Blues, and hundreds of other industry leaders and high end service firms.

He lives just outside of St Louis with his wife Lindsay and three daughters. His second best selling book, "GIFTOLOGY: The Art & Science of Using Gifts to Cut Through the Noise, Drive Referrals and Strengthen Retention,” has been featured in Forbes and Inc.

 

Click here for your opportunity to win a special Leather-Bound Edition of Gift-ology!

 

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