I teach about twenty coaching classes every year.  And no matter the level of the class (beginner, intermediate or advanced), no matter the exact topic, and no matter whether the class is online or on site, there is one question I almost always get: “How much should I charge for my coaching?” Of course there

If you’re a coach who wants to get clients, you need a website.  If you don’t want clients, you don’t need a website.  But in today’s world, any professional needs a web presence.  After a person meets you or just hears about you, one of the first things they do is to check out your

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.”

One of my hobbies is an old Jeep that I sometimes drive and often work on. I’m no certified mechanic, but I can take care of the one thing that the Jeep most often needs: a jump start. Jeeps aren’t the only things that sometimes need a jump start. The same is true for relationships,

Every coach starts out as a beginner.  Those who want to add great value to those they coach are not satisfied to stay there — they want to operate at the professional level.
So what does it take to provide professional level coaching?  Here are ten then things that mark a coach as a professional (along with questions/statements the coach might say to demonstrate the competency):

They not only let the client choose the topic