Building a Successful Coaching Practice
Live training Accelerator Day
With the new skills you have developed, the extensive coaching practice you will have undertaken, and a growing toolkit of models and techniques ready to hand, many of our diploma students begin to think of developing a coaching practice. This live training day focuses on some of the key activities that will get you up and running.
Defining your coaching niche can be a powerful way of moving yourself forward and into business. But what is a niche? And which would suit you? Your own background and interests will guide you. As a pointer we include DVDs teaching retirement coaching, health and wellbeing and stress in with this module.
This part of the course will help you in defining your coaching niche, and having achieved that, in helping to market it. The clearer you are about defining exactly the niche you are in, the easier it will be to market your new business service. We discuss the role of some of your most important business communications from your business cards to your new coaching website, as well as some key legal aspects of starting your coaching practice such as the importance of abiding by the data protection rules.
Last but definitely not least we discuss the subject that will be very close to your heart: getting paid! Your client invoices are just one side of the coin. The taxman needs paying too, and this session also considers VAT registration.
Throughout your diploma programme, a comprehensive resource of samples, scripts and plans is provided. Follow these as much as you wish until you have developed your own ideal way of doing things.
Module - Building a successful Coaching Practice
- VAT and invoices
- Getting payment
- Data protection
- What is a niche?
- Possible niches (DVD’s teaching retirement coaching, health and wellness, stress and parent coaching included)
- Deciding on a niche
- Essentials – cards, website etc
- Marketing your niche
Further Reading
Five Ways To Build Rapport
04/12/2012
What we say can create or destroy rapport, but interestingly only 7% of communication is the spoken word. Our body language and our tone of voice are more important than the actual words spoken.
Limiting Beliefs
05/11/2012
Limiting beliefs are those things you believe about yourself that place limitations on your abilities. Limiting beliefs are simply assumptions about reality that are not true. In order for our actions to have the greatest positive effect, we need to have beliefs that are as close to reality as possible - deceiving ourselves will take us further from the goal.
GROW Model
02/11/2012
The GROW (Goal, Reality, Options, Will) model is the most common and widely used coaching tool. It empowers the coach to structure a coaching conversation and deliver a meaningful result.
The GROW acronym suggests that a coach using the GROW model is likely to start by asking the client to set goals, both for what they want to get out of the coaching sessions as a whole and for each individual session.
How To Master Your Motivation - Bev James
03/07/2012 10:00:01
Do you find yourself setting out to do one task and ending up completing something else? Do you sometimes have so many ideas on the go, you are unsure which to do first? Or perhaps the passion for the task has faded and you are spending time dreaming up new plans, but are unsure which to run with.
Childs Play And What Can You Learn From It - Saira Nisa
19/06/2012 08:51:50
Have you ever wondered why as a child you had all the will in the world to be a superhero or just somebody absolutely fantastic and now as a grown up you seem to have lost the will to live? We’ve lost our motivation and don’t know how to get it back.
Top Tips For A Supercharged And More Positive You
12/06/2012 09:00:49
Our state, the way in which we show in our interactions and movements, has an extraordinary influence on the course of our lives. Whether in work, politics or any other field, your state of mind has a very strong influence on your results and general feeling of happiness.
Seven Steps To Change Your Self-Image Forever
29/05/2012 09:30:36
Lucy has been struggling with a poor self-image for the past six years. She felt unattractive and strongly believed that men didn’t find her sexy. She had a successful career as a management consultant but could not stop feeling bad about herself. Through our sessions, I discovered that Lucy had a younger sister. This younger sister was the pretty one, the one who got all the boys, according to Lucy.
Going For The Goal
14/05/2012 11:41:42
One of the core skills most coaches deal with is goal setting. It seems relatively straight forward, yet most of us and our clients find it hard to achieve the goals we’ve set, so let’s take a good look at why that is and what we can do about it. The most common model for goal-setting is represented by the acronym SMART – specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and time based. The other element that is usually stressed is that the goal should be positive; for instance, instead of saying “I will lose 20 pounds,” one might say, “I will have a stable, healthy weight of 12 stone.
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"I left the 2 days completely transformed. Powerful stuff! New ways of thinking is for me the best thing about coaching"
Lara Williams
London
