If you do enough coaching, it becomes similar to eating out too much. “Where do you want to eat?” becomes a painful question to answer. In coaching, you can come to hate the question, “What do you want to talk about today?” Some people don’t think deep enough. “I don’t know. Everything is pretty good.” […]
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There is a difference between being a coach and doing coaching, just as there is a difference between being a pastor and doing the job of pastoring. I just finished up teaching an online class called Building a Dynamic Coaching Relationship with excellent, deep thinking students. During our last class, we discussed “What do you
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When I talk about coaching, someone always asks the question: “What if the client wants to do something inappropriate or illegal?” My simple response has become: “When it happens to me, I’ll answer this question, but so far, it has never happened.” I asked my friend and partner Chad Hall the same question to get
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I was recently asked by someone who really enjoyed my last post “The Best 15 Minute Coaching Session Ever,” how often I write these types of posts. I answered that I write a weekly blog post which I publish monthly. In other words, I’m writing a blog post a month when I want to be
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