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Creating An Outcome That’s Valuable
In my previous post on creating Intelligent Outcomes™ (vs. S.M.A.R.T. goals), we discussed the first of six key criteria for success. An Intelligent Outcome must be framed in positive terms. It expresses what you do want, not what you don’t. Now for the...

Creating Positive Outcomes
What’s the shortest distance between a goal and an outcome? The answer lies in your question. Helping clients define what they want is one of the coach’s most important jobs. It’s also one of the hardest. Most people haven’t been trained in how to set goals. Even...

Five Questions to Break Through Fear
I love listening to the nagging, chronic client complaints that commonly drive coaches crazy. Like fear of failure, lack of confidence, self-sabotage, procrastination, overwhelm, impatience, shyness, not speaking up, habitually thinking negative thoughts. I love listening because I don’t have to listen for long. All I need to do is ask five simple questions and —BOOM— clients break through their fears for good. Instantly. Consistently. Authentically. Would you like to know what those five questions are?

A new approach to conflict resolution
Its long been said that the root of all conflict is unmet expectations. In today’s complex world where we are faced with increasing challenges to do more with less, and to perform duties and meet goals faster with the use of technology, we are naturally faced with...
Transforming Self-Doubt Into Personal Mastery
Everyone faces self- doubt. Anne Hathaway received the Golden Globe Award for her work in Les Miserable referring to the prestigious award in her acceptance speech as a "lovely blunt object that she will forever use as a weapon against self-doubt." (View her speech...
Coaching A2Qs on NLP
Every coach should have a wide variety of tools at his or her disposal for those times (or those clients) that traditional coaching techniques can't seem to reach. Neurolinguistic Programming (or NLP) is one those tools. In fact, the results I've achieved using what...