Coaching Youth Teams: Five Ways to Empower Your Players

What is your coaching style? Do you empower your players to win? Do your players have fun and love what they are doing? Do they want to win for themselves and you? Coaches must remember that they are authority figures who are often placed on higher pedestals than parents. Demonstrating caring, effective, and empowering communication with your players is the best way to teach and inspire. These five Tips will help you empower your players.

Coaching with the GROW Model

The GROW Model is one of the most widely-used tools for coaching, whether it be life, business, sales, sports or executive coaching, as it ensures you are working effectively as a coach and not setting your client up for failure.

Top 7 Tips For Finding A Coaching Certification Program That Will Expand Your Business Results

If you are an executive coach or investigating coaching as a business are you considering coaching certification? Before you make any decision, review these free 7 tips.

How To Overcome Shyness

This article looks into ways to help people break free from shyness. The advice is based from personal experience and I hope it will provide inspiration to many people.

What Makes A Great Coach/Leader?

Ever since I was a young lad I had always seemed to be able to people to do things. I thought that maybe it was because of my charm and guile, or maybe because I had a some what intimidating pressence. It was none of these things, however i'm sure that it didn't hurt my ability to convey my messege.

The Winds of Change

Most people shiver when the winds of change blow their way. They are blinded by the strong winds hitting their face and making their eyes water and sting, knowing that things are shifting, it just can't be good! The comfort zone is going to be invaded and it won't be pretty! They can't see that the winds of change also bring along with them new opportunity, chances to grow, to heal, to face challenges. Yes, these things can be scary but what a gift they are!

How Life Coaching Can Transform Your Life

You know that you've settled for the consolation prize when you achieve all of your goals and they don’t make you happy. The worst thing about that time in my life was I didn't know what I wanted, or what made me happy. When I discovered my being and having values my life changed dramatically.

Abatement Coaching for Negative Emotional Memories

Post traumatic stress disorder is a real concern and we need to use abatement coaching for negative emotional memories and a model these psychological adjustments after the way that we abate tests, insects and viruses.

Retired Entrepreneurs Should be Mentors and Coaches

Every so often someone asks me to be their business mentor and usually it is a young man or woman in their twenties who is successful and driven with a passion for whatever it is that they do.

A Team Without a Coach

Living your life without a personal coach is like playing a basketball game without a coach: destined for failure.

Good Intuition!

This morning I was coming back from a meeting when my phone rang. I looked at the caller ID and it said “unavailable”. Now, I typically do not answer those phone calls because they are usually from telemarketers. But this morning I answered because we have an unlisted home phone number and I thought it could have been my husband or my kids. I was wrong.

Building a Legacy: It's Only Too Late If You Never Start!

By discovering your unique strengths, determining your core values, and directing your future with ambitious lifetime goals, you can achieve amazing success. But be warned-if you don't like change, you will like irrelevance even less. So far, Steve Jobs has made a fairly sizable ding. He has achieved success (to the tune of over a billion dollars) through continuous innovation and sticking to his unique talents. Whether your are about to start your career or already working your way up the ranks, you want to give yourself every possible advantage. You have a lot of decisions before you, no matter where you are in life. It is up to you to determine which path in life you will take - but how can you avoid walking down the wrong paths over and over again until you find the best one? What are your unique strengths? If you don't determine the where, how, when, and why of what makes you truly unique, making that ding in the universe won't happen.

Have You Got a Big Backend?

This article looks at the importance of getting more business from your existing coaching clients rather than focusing your practice building activities just on attracting new clients.

Magnetic Attraction - Coaching From the Inside Out

Have you ever had one of those weeks where everyone seems to want to be around you? It could be a stranger in the grocery store, out of touch friends, people who used to be acquaintances, and on and on. Suddenly, your magnetic force is on high and you are pulling everyone into your world. Read on to be inspired to turn your own magnetic attraction to full force.

Hurricanes and Coaching

Do you coach a sports team and are you concerned with the weather issues? I know that many people in the Northeastern Parts of the United States are and they are very worried about getting in all the practices with the fields flooded, forced evacuations and they know they need playing time and lots of practice to insure organizational management and team work is efficient and running smoothly.