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The Future of Coaching Technology
Like all other booming industries expected to significantly grow over the next decades, professional coaching is now integrating specific new technologies and innovations designed and developed to boost coaching businesses and take client relationship to a new level. There is a new concept in an “al
Growing a Coach Training Business
From Teacher to Life Coaching College Founder
A Strategic Plan for Extreme Disruption
"Carefully observe oneself and one's situation, carefully observe others, and carefully observe one's environment. Consider fully, act decisively." - Kano Jigoro – Jiu-Jitsu Martial Arts Master
Structure Creates Space
Structure creates space is a philosophy proffered by my partner when he harkens back to his rugby coaching days. I love rugby, go the All Blacks! Guess where I hail from? I don’t however, love structure.
Mindful Management and NLP
In Australia/New Zealand, employee engagement scores fall below worldwide engagement levels, despite employees rating satisfaction in their overall life higher than any other global region (Gallup, 2017).
Four Visual Models for Your Training
We know our clients are overloaded with a million different pieces of information daily, so how do we make sure that what we’re sharing in our trainings has a better chance of sticking? Information that your attendees can actually recall what you have shared and more importantly put it into practice
The Importance of Storytelling
When a baker was found to be short-shifting the locals, he’d be run out of town eventually; but not before suffering a slow decline in sales due to everyone talking about his sneaky ways.
Demonstrating Your Worth
The tricky part comes when you are pitching for new work, how do you prove that what you did with your last client made a difference, or worse still, with the end of the financial year approaching and...
Who Leads the Leaders
I’ve talked to enough C-level clients to know better. Sure, 6 or 7-figure salaries are great and wielding real decision-making power can be intoxicating, but those at the top rungs of corporations oft...
Leading by Example
When it comes to leadership, the biggest (and loudest) message I can send is to lead by example. If you are the business owner who ‘rips off’ your customers, then how can you be possibly shocked when
The Neuroscience of Teamwork
A coach fixated in believing that his message will equally resonate with each player will fail to create a cohesive team approach as individual’s differences are not being considered.
Ten Tips for Total Image Management
To think that you can succeed without paying any attention to your image is, simply put, asking for trouble.
Coaching vs Consulting
I do this by telling them I’m a business coach who doesn’t believe business coaching works; how coaches who are proud they’re not consultants are setting up their clients, and their own business, for
Personal Branding for Legacy
To start with, coaches are people who give. They give to those they coach, and they give to the teams and communities they belong to. Coaches give their time, their expertise, their hard work and thei...
What is Culture
Human beings are hiving creatures, we take our social cues from those around us. So, if we want a shift in culture, within our teams, organisations, communities or industries, we must first look at ho...
The New Sales
From there I got an honours degree in business administration. In the first semester, I got 4 A’s as they were teaching me what I had learnt as a boy in my parent’s business.
Aligning Culture and Capability
True collaboration requires the right balance of people, skill and corporate power to achieve outcomes that are derived from both insight and then leveraged and scaled for application.
A Referral Plan That Works
We are told, do a great job with your clients and then ask them who they know who needs help with their challenges.
The Times They Are A'Changing
There is an evolution going on that is affecting the business world and how we lead and manage within it.
Diversities in Conversation
Whilst I am excited to see a growing recognition of what we do as a profession, the growth is also leading to a significant negative development in the space – there is a complete lack of diversity in...
Listening Across Cultures
The result was that a particular team from a regional office felt disrespected, frustrated and placed little value and trust in the discussion session.
Getting Shit Done
Meet Mi Goals, a Melbourne-based inspirational stationery brand, empowering people to set meaningful goals that they will stick to and achieve all year round.
As Seen on TV
I rang Discovery the next day to find out why it was broken. They said they ran their program, which was six hours, three times a day, giving a total of 18 hours of viewing. They had no desire to show...
Artificial Intelligence Coaching
Before deciding to build anything new I first decided to examine the current solutions on offer. Where they work and where they fall short.
WTF
Anger is an emotion which is could be argued emerges from violation of values within the gut brain. We have three brains – one in our heard, one in our heart and one in our gut, more later in this art...
Relevance is Viability
There is a seemingly endless trail of businesses whose journeys were cut short due to Leadership Myopia.
Coaching in the Corporate World
As companies strive to become more innovative and proactive rather than reactive, the coaching model is becoming more common-place in the corporate world.
The Power of Coaching
It’s no wonder we get asked for book recommendations so often.
Coaching Men vs Women
As a coach, should we align with the theory of being Politically Correct and treat each other as one and the same? Or should we expand our own personal development ensuring that we are well versed wit
Personal Branding, Gender and Coaching Business Success
It has long been suggested that men and women have different brains, but a recent study of over 1,400 brain scans reveal there really isn’t such a thing as a distinctly male or female brain. In fact,
Grant O'Sullivan on Building Engaged High-Performance Teams
It has long been the case that great school teachers have been more facilitators of student learning than just fountains of knowledge who simply spray their …
The Psychology of Engagement in Sport and Business
Do you remember that first moment when you discovered this whole concept of coaching or personal development? I do! I was sitting in a hotel room watching an…
Shannah Kennedy on Life Coaching and Genuine Engagement
I have now been coaching for 15 years but my background includes stockbroking in my early 20s. At the time, I didn’t see enough scope for women in the indust…
Phil Morgan on Building a Coaching Culture That Sticks
Professor Philip Morgan of the University of Newcastle shares an innovative program designed to involve Dads in increasing their daughters’ sport skills, phy…
Digital Culture: Sia Shamsai on Business Coaching Online
To the untrained eye, the world of Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) can be a minefield of acronyms and snake oil salesmen Having worked in the industry for t…
The Greatest Marketing Strategy in the World
On average, I get 4 referrals a week. Over 50% of my referrals come from this marketing strategy.
Culture as the Coach's Most Powerful Tool
In 1986, I won third place in Toastmasters World Championship of public speaking and was named as one of five Young Australians of the Year. When these event…
Leadership Culture: David Angel on Coaching for the Future
For an aspiring Coach (essentially a small business owner) Social Media is actually a convenient, practical and essential tool that you can utilise to ensure…
Profitable Coaching Goals: Building a Business That Lasts
Several years ago, I sat down with Ken Lowe over a beer to ask what goals he’d set to create one of Australia’s most successful ongoing IT companies, ASI Sol…
So why don’t we?
What is an Intrepreneur for heaven’s sake? Intrepreneurs are entrepreneurs working inside an organisation. We all work inside our own organisation or the org…
What does it mean to Recalculate?
We start out with all the enthusiasm in the world before the first in a string of disappointments. Someone tells us we are crazy to think we could reach a go…
LISTS OF GOALS, LIKE CRASH DIETS, DON’T WORK.
How to embed new habits, optimise performance and re-wire your brain for profit and fun.
How to Hit the Target That You Want
As a leader, coach, manager or business owner, you would already know the importance of goal setting. Surround yourself with any successful person and they'l…
1. Environment
Several years ago, I was living a very different life than the one I do today. In fact, for 10 years of my life I was living what’s best described as well on…
Cut Through the Noise: Marketing Your Coaching Online
As a coach with an internet connection, it’s impossible to miss the potential opportunity of utilising the web to expand your practice. And as a successful …
Future Focus: 3 Tips to Make 2016 Your Best Year
As 2015 comes to a close and many of our clients start to wind down to a well-earned break, it’s time that we focus our energy into creating the business tha…
Five Pillars to Build a Profitable Coaching Business
So you have become a coach. You even have a certificate that proves you are one… ta da! You know lots of neat stuff about your chosen field and you’re really…
15 Tips for Finishing Each Day Right and Staying Focused
Ever noticed how some people always seem to start each day fresh, energised and organised? Why is this so? Perhaps the way they finish off the day before is …
What Small Business Coaches Really Need to Focus On
With a background in marketing and a desire to narrow the focus of his business, Robert drew on the distinct commonalities of his favourite clients and secur…
The knowledge trap
You have just landed yourself a bright, shiny new client. What next?
The Authentic Business Coach: A Philosophical Reflection
Anyone can be a business or life coach nowadays as there are very few, if any, enforced regulatory guidelines to practice here in Australia.
Starting a Coaching Service Inside an Organisation
An organisation is, in some ways, a collection of people who have adopted a certain mindset about how work happens and how business relationships need to occur.
Coaching Benefits
In most sporting environments, it is accepted and expected that if you want to be the best you can be, you will use a coach. Often that coach comes attached to the team or the club to which you belong.
Walking the Walk: Why Successful Coaches Must Practice What They Preach
Credibility is the #1 currency of a successful coaching practice. After 25 years as a career coach, Grant Cooper shares the best practices that ensure a profitable and rewarding coaching business.