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Stealing Fruit

Todd is the youngest brother to attend the academy. Expectations are very high for his success. But Todd only feels defeat and dread. No matter his effort, he will fall short of the expectations. Mr. Keating, Todd’s English teacher, believes that teaching Todd more facts about poetry is a waste of time until Todd is

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Two Big Strategies

If you’re going to be coaching for a living (or for some income), you need clients.  That may be axiomatic, but it still needs to be said because I know far too many good coaches who have too few clients.  As coaches, we have to develop our ability to coach, but we also have to

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Clear Next Steps

In the fall of 1999, I did it. I boldly crossed the transition bridge from the traditional church I had pastored to a contemporary church plant that would change the region. That’s right, the region. Not just our town, but central Illinois would no longer be the same now that we refused to be contained

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website suck

I tell my kids not to use the word “suck,” and yet there it is in the title of this blog post. Yikes! Why did I use such strong and colorful language? Because desperate times call for desperate measures. You see, some coaching websites are just so bad there is no other way to describe

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Undefined Roles

Roger wants to pull out what little hair he has left. Frustrations have been rising all week, threatening to pour out over his lower eyelids or through a violent release of his vocal cords. “This transition was supposed to make things easier! I’m pretty sure this is not the definition of easier,” he confides to

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Z Goal

In coaching we often talk about helping clients go “from A to B.”  In those conversations, “B” is the next place, the next stage, the next reality the client wants to experience.  We all need a sense of what’s next, so we need to know where we are (“A”) and where we want to be

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