Excellence in coaching comes down to excellence in the coach.
If you pursue excellence in your own life, you will expect it for your clients.
If you’re willing to pick up the phone and call someone you’re terrified to talk to, you’ll then be a stand for your client to do the same. When you are honest in all your relationships, you’ll expect your client to tell the truth. If you’re looking after yourself, you’ll be firmer with a client who is letting their body go.
When you are out of integrity or living way below your vision of yourself, your self-assurance drops. Conversely, living a life of excellence will give you confidence as a coach, and potential clients will feel it. Every time you make choices that bring you closer to who you want to be, you gain confidence. And confident coaches will ask more of their clients.
Work on yourself as much as you work on your business. Don’t just take business classes or coaching teleseminars, take personal growth seminars, read as much as you can, listen to motivational tapes, grow in your relationships, challenge yourself. Know yourself and know your issues, so you continue to grow. Track down Paul Lowe, David Deida, the Human Awareness Institute, Landmark Education, Byron Katie, Tony Robbins – find your ‘gurus’ and learn from them.
The following is taken from David’s interview with Philip Cohen in 10 Super Coaches.
I believe the certification offered by the International Coach Federation is the most rigorous and the most widely respected. Certification is more than a certificate. The value of a certification lies in the credibility of the certification process. ICF requires a candidate to have formal training, document the number of hours they have coached, and to demonstrate their competency as a coach through live and taped coaching sessions. The assessors are all senior level coaches who know how to administer the exams. The certificate isn’t for just completing a program, the candidate must be able to use the skills. Numerous coaching schools around the world have created their programs based on ICF’s Core Coaching Competencies.
The following is taken from David’s interview with Anna Dargitz in 10 Super Coaches.
What was most disheartening for you while building your practice?
Marketing was disheartening. I’m not a traditional sales person. In my day, the law of attraction was addressed but there was no hand-holding through the steps of marketing with authenticity. I bought and read all the power and guerrilla networking materials. I tried a bunch of them. They only blocked my natural flow. So I set out to write my own workbook and teleclass on marketing that focused on authentic affiliations and partnering. I eliminated anything that seemed phony to me. I was interested in soaring with strengths and delegating weaknesses to affiliations and partners who were strong in the areas of our weakness.
The following is taken from Get Paid University.
Where do you find a Web Wizard? My friend Elza of www. elzamusic.com went to www.rentacoder.com, posted a request for bids, found a guy who was great, and paid just $15 an hour for a few hours to get her website and blog up and running. He turned out to be a high-school student who was working from home in another state, and he was so responsive that he would complete projects for Elza the same day she sent them. Let’s see if we can find someone like that for you!
