Mel Gibson starred in a movie a few years ago – what do women want? It was a tongue-in-cheek view of the stereotype that women do not know what they want.  While things have changed over the years, there is still a tendency for many women to put their needs on the back burner – so how do you help your clients identify what they want? The same is true for men, Men have been conditioned to just suck it up and get it done.  What they want does not matter.

Even though I have been trained to believe that anyone can coach anyone on anything (iPEC and ICF).  Most coaches create a practice around something they have already mastered. This is perhaps a failing of the market because of the influence of sports coaches that typically have excelled at the sport that they coach.

What is your own victim to victory story that you are applying to your practice to help your clients make their own journey of transformation?  Or, if you hold to the principles of the International Coach Federation – why does it not matter?

People come to a coach because they have a problem and they are looking for a solution.  If it is getting a job, they want a plan for getting a job, so how do you help them put pen to paper to create a plan.  The plan comes from them, how do you extract it from them?

Did you ever build a puzzle?  How many times did you look at the image on the cover of the box?  Do people need the vision for how they will engage with you?  Chances on you start with a complimentary session.  It should pain the vision for how you deal what the coaching process.  It should demonstrate to them how you helo them overcome their GAIL’s

Humans need to have an emotional attachment to a future state of being that is stronger than their emotional attachment to their present reality if they are to change.  To do this your potential client needs to identify the following: