Communication Skill: Nine Tips, Tools, and Products to Make Your Life Coaching Profitable

by DrGregHamlin on April 1, 2011

Marketing is Not the First Step of Starting a Life Coaching Business The most important step of starting your own coaching program is to understand yourself, the exact level of your knowledge and expertise, your communication skill, and the types of people that you have already been helpful to as a coach.  If these are [...]

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Life Coach Training and Certification: Marketing Starts Before — Not After

March 29, 2011

Getting Started As a Life Coach –  Before Life Coach Certification So, you want to become a life coach.   Before you go through months or even years of preparation and training to become a certified life coach, it’s important that you know who your target market it is.   Why not wait until after you are [...]

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Life Coaches Can Detect Narcissistic Personality Disorder

March 28, 2011

Narcissism is probably most easily understood by starting with the definition of Narcissistic Personality Disorder as defined by the diagnostic manual used by nearly every mental health worker. Why Does This Mental Health Concept Matter for Life Coaches? Life coaches do the work of helping their clients reach their full potential in one or more [...]

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15 Cognitive Distortions that Life Coaches Should Be Able to Recognize

January 28, 2011

Cognitive Psychology:  The Overlap of Life Coaching and Psychotherapy One of the ways that life coaching overlaps with therapy is in the area of cognitive psychology.  Cognitive psychology looks at how changing one’s thoughts can change emotions surrounding the thought.  Similarly, changing behavior can influence thoughts to change which in turn bring changes to feelings.  [...]

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