The #1 Coaching Blindspot
What amazes me about coaching mastery isn’t the complexity of the blindspots coaches have, but the simplicity of them.
What Are the Best Questions to Ask to Start a Coaching Conversation?
NOTICE: Tomorrow we’re hosting a Micro-Dojo webinar called Death to Zombie Coaching Sessions! (How to prevent brain dead sessions that go nowhere) In this session we’re going to: break down how Master Coaches start their coaching sessions, talk about the most common mistakes that cost coaches clients and impact, and help you learn how to […]
How to Open (i.e., Being Human with Other Humans)
(a guest post by Sensei Bay LeBlanc Quiney) Hey you! Nice work, getting into connection with a potential client! That’s awesome! Someone asked you for a conversation of possibility, or you invited them, and they said yes.
Day 5 of How to Start a Coaching Conversation Like a Master Coach (The Mixtape):
Five Questions I Stole from the World’s Best Coaches, Why They Work, and How to Use Them to Start Powerful Coaching Conversations Today! Today our little OPEN phase series on how to start a coaching conversation like a master coach comes to an end, with my favorite question: “What would you like?” I had to […]
Day 4 of How to Start a Coaching Conversation Like a Master Coach (The Mixtape):
Five Questions I Stole from the World’s Best Coaches, Why They Work, and How to Use Them to Start Powerful Coaching Conversations Today! While part of me would love to spend this entire post talking about the simplicity of The Work as well as its limitations, for now we’re just going to look at the […]
Day 3 of How to Start a Coaching Conversation Like a Master Coach (The Mixtape):
Five Questions I Stole from the World’s Best Coaches, Why They Work, and How to Use Them to Start Powerful Coaching Conversations Today! So far we’ve listened to the situational brilliance of Tony Robbins’s powerhouse hit (“What’s changed?”) and Rich Litvin’s classic (“What would make this an extraordinary conversation?”). And today we’re going to listen […]
Day 2 of How to Start a Coaching Conversation Like a Master Coach (The Mixtape):
Five Questions I Stole from the World’s Best Coaches, Why They Work, and How to Use Them to Start Powerful Coaching Conversations Today! This week I’m working on a series of post about my favorite opening questions / gambits / strategies of some of the world’s best and best-known coaches. Yesterday we looked at a […]
Day 1 of How to Start a Coaching Conversation Like a Master Coach (The Mixtape):
Five Questions I Stole from the World’s Best Coaches, Why They Work, and How to Use Them to Start Powerful Coaching Conversations Today! In the annals of coaching geekdom, I hope that someday there is a shrine to the total and utter dorky obsession that I have offered to the study of master coaches. I’ve […]
How Should I Start a Coaching Conversation?
Every coaching conversation that ever was had to start somewhere. Whether it was a life-altering session that changed the course of human history or the worst conversation any coach has ever had, all conversations have to start. So how in the hell are you supposed to figure how to start it? When I was a […]
Why Coaches Suck at Explaining What They Do
Or, oral marketing as explained through a metaphor about boxes of cereal… As coaches, we see the universality of all problems. People think the challenge is in the content, in the people in their lives, in the details of their situation. But we know that’s not the truth. We understand that most problems are problems […]