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The Lifestyle of a Coach
The lifestyle of a coach is a widely-overlooked part of being a coach. Your life is the reservoir you draw from when you work with others. Coaching is the art...
The Lifestyle of a Coach
The lifestyle of a coach is a widely-overlooked part of being a coach. Your life is the reservoir you draw from when you work with others. Coaching is the art...

The Heart of a Coach
I believe the most important key to coaching excellence is cultivating the heart of a coach — deeply embracing the value system that underlies coaching. Learning to see people as...
The Heart of a Coach
I believe the most important key to coaching excellence is cultivating the heart of a coach — deeply embracing the value system that underlies coaching. Learning to see people as...

Coaching Encounters Wherever You Go
Coaching encounters are all around us. Wherever there are people facing challenges, who are receptive to change or a new perspective on their situation, there is the potential to impact...
Coaching Encounters Wherever You Go
Coaching encounters are all around us. Wherever there are people facing challenges, who are receptive to change or a new perspective on their situation, there is the potential to impact...

The Arrogance of Diagnosis
One of the sobering things I’ve learned in my years of coaching is that I’m not nearly as good as I thought I was at diagnosis: identifying God’s agenda in...
The Arrogance of Diagnosis
One of the sobering things I’ve learned in my years of coaching is that I’m not nearly as good as I thought I was at diagnosis: identifying God’s agenda in...

Asking Profound Questions: Five Reasons
Have you ever left a conversation thinking, “Boy, that was one-sided. The whole conversation was about him.” My wife calls that “a lack of conversational generosity”. We all hate it...
Asking Profound Questions: Five Reasons
Have you ever left a conversation thinking, “Boy, that was one-sided. The whole conversation was about him.” My wife calls that “a lack of conversational generosity”. We all hate it...