Mastering Coaching Skills

Discover the importance of celebration in coaching and goal-setting, including celebrating small wins and everyday moments. Reflect on the significance of appreciating the journey and celebrating milestones along the way. Learn strategies for incorporating celebration into different areas of life and overcoming fear to achieve personal victories. Explore ways to celebrate accomplishments and incorporate it into daily life and coaching calls.

Explore the significance of values in coaching and how they impact work and personal life. Learn about planning breaks and the importance of understanding different values and facilitating non-argumentative discussions. Discover the power of values and gratitude in providing guidance and fulfillment in coaching.

I recently spoke to a coach about joining my certification, and she thought she wasn’t in the right place to join yet because she isn’t interested in creating her own intellectual property. If you’re thinking you need to create brand new coaching tools and concepts from scratch in order to achieve coaching mastery, it’s time to reconsider your position.   Discover why you don’t need your own coaching tools, concepts, and intellectual property to become an expert coach. I’m sharing my thoughts on how we’ve gotten to this place in the industry as coaches, and you’ll learn why leaning too heavily on your intellectual property could actually harm your coaching practice.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.lindsaydotzlafcoaching.com/163

Exploring the dangers of idolizing coaches in the coaching industry, including unrealistic expectations and unhealthy dependency. Reflecting on fluctuating productivity levels and the importance of self-acceptance. Discussing the speaker's irrational spending on skincare despite allergies. Emphasizing the value of embracing quirks and avoiding pedestals as coaches.

In this podcast, they discuss the importance of planning ahead in the coaching industry and provide advice on setting goals and creating a clear vision for the future of your coaching business. They explore potential changes and additions to the business, such as a name change and introducing new certifications. They also emphasize the importance of planning for expansion and hiring help for website development and logo design. They encourage self-reflection and envisioning success in your coaching business, and provide resources for planning and goal-setting.

Every once in a while, I check in with myself and my business to really uncover how everything’s going. I do this with my schedule, my productivity, and what I’m offering my clients. This means I shake things up every so often in my coaching spaces, and I'm showing you where you might want to do the same.   Discover how to evaluate your coaching business, decide what’s working for you, and start changing everything that isn’t. I’m showing you how I do this work in my business, and I’m giving you some inspiration for shaking up your own coaching practice so you can feel amazing while you’re hard at work.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.lindsaydotzlafcoaching.com/160

In this podcast, the importance of clearly defining coaching offers and differentiating between programs is discussed. The speaker reflects on their journey of becoming a coach, emphasizing the need for foundational coaching skills. They also discuss creating a coaching handbook based on self-awareness and personal growth. The speaker shares reflections on an assignment and alternative approaches, as well as effective coaching strategies and the importance of being client-focused and flexible in coaching.

Integrity is a word that gets thrown around a lot in the coaching industry. Living in accordance with my deepest values is how I like to think about being in integrity as a coach. However, it often means different things to different people. If you’ve seen examples of integrity that don’t align with your definition of it, it’s time to redefine it for yourself.   Discover what it means to have integrity as a coach and how to define it for yourself. I’m sharing four ways you might be using the concept of integrity against yourself, how it’s acting as a disservice to you and your clients, and what actually cultivates trust, safety, and respect with your clients.    Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.lindsaydotzlafcoaching.com/158

If you've been curious about what goes on in my Advanced Certification in Coaching Mastery, you're going to love this episode. With the next certification kicking off in February 2024, now's the perfect time to hear from coaches who've been in your shoes, wondering if it's the right fit.   Teresa Haag joins me this week and we're giving you a behind-the-scenes look at the Advanced Certification in Coaching Mastery. Teresa shares her own story, why she decided to sign up, and the big takeaways she got from the program. It's real talk, filled with everything you need to know to see if this certification will benefit you and your clients.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.lindsaydotzlafcoaching.com/157

It’s been 18 months since I first launched The Coach Lab, and I’ve had some great learnings and takeaways that I'd like to share with you this week. I couldn’t have imagined how beneficial it was going to be at the beginning, helping many coaches, and I hope my lessons learned will help you up-level your own coaching practice.   Hear six of the biggest lessons I’ve learned over the last year and a half of running The Coach Lab. I’m sharing the patterns I’ve seen over time that relate to navigating feedback, selling to cold traffic, enhancing the value inside the program, and much more.    Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.lindsaydotzlafcoaching.com/156