Brent O’Bannon, the world’s first Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach, shares his experience and expertise about strengths-based development and how this coaching strategy can help maximize your professional potential.
Turn weaknesses into strengths as you focus on:
About Brent O'Bannon:
Brent O’Bannon is a PCC and the first GALLUP-Certified Strengths Coach in the world.
He coaches and leads entrepreneurial leaders, sales teams, coaches and multi-million dollar companies to maximize, mobilize, and monetize their human capital strengths.
Brent teaches the PCCI Strengths Based Coaching course and is a recent Amazon #1 best-selling author of Selling Strengths: A Little Book for Executive and Life Coaches About Using Your Strengths to Get Paying Clients.
Join his vision to champion strengths for global excellence at www.brentobannon.com
Take Brent's free Breakthrough With Strengths online course here:
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Register for the drawing to receive a free copy of Brent's book: Selling Strengths: A Little Book for Executive and Life Coaches About Using Your Strengths to Get Paying Clients here:
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You are a culture-shaper. As a Christian coach, you are uniquely equipped to draw out of others “the Good, the True, and the Beautiful” that God has placed in them. Join Chris McCluskey as he shares a behind-the-scenes look from his speaking engagement with coaches Greg Leith and Helen Mitchell at the C.S. Lewis Foundation and learn practical ways to influence culture in the 21st century.
Discover how to…
> Find and fulfill the central purpose of your life so you can influence generations to come
> Use direct communication to irrigate the spiritual deserts in our everyday world
> Align your life with your day-to-day activities to intentionally live out your calling in the world
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As a Christian coach, who you are and the work you do both changes lives and shapes cultures. In honor of our 100th episode of the Professional Christian Coaching Today podcast, Chris McCluskey, the father of Christian Coaching, issues an inspiring upward call in this important worldwide movement.
In this episode, you will:
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Challenged by marketing? Most coaches are, but we’ve got bite-sized solutions that can be applied to your business as well as to the work you do with your clients. Join us as we take the power of habit formation and funnel it into a system you can begin using today!
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Today, we continue discussions with Jeff Goins on the importance of embracing your passions and gifts, and how to share them with the world. If you haven’t already, listen to part one and embrace your identity. Then, continue with part two and begin to let your activities flow from your identity.
Market your artistic work as you embrace the:
About Jeff Goins
Jeff Goins is a full-time writer who lives just outside of Nashville, Tennessee, with his wife and kids. He has authored four other books: The Art of Work, The In-Between, Wrecked, and You Are a Writer. His website, Goinswriter.com, has been visited by more than four million people from all over the world. He humbly considers himself the world’s foremost expert on guacamole.
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Many coaches wonder if they can really make a living doing what they are passionate about. Today, we’ll discuss the importance of embracing your passions and gifts and taking the necessary risks to bring them to the world.
Unlock your potential as you discover:
About Jeff Goins
Jeff Goins is a full-time writer who lives just outside of Nashville, Tennessee, with his wife and kids. He has authored four other books: The Art of Work, The In-Between, Wrecked, and You Are a Writer. His website, Goinswriter.com, has been visited by more than four million people from all over the world. He humbly considers himself the world’s foremost expert on guacamole.
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To coach or not to coach: that is the question many coaches ask when their clients take a turn for the worse. In today’s episode, we have valuable information for all coaches on:
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Are you tired of setting goals but not reaching them? Perhaps the goals were too lofty, life’s busyness got in the way, or you hit a roadblock you didn’t know how to overcome. Whatever the difficulty, coaching can help! In today’s episode, we’ll walk you through the information you need to know to help you and your clients set meaningful goals.
You’ll learn…
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Imagine being with someone who is fully present… Giving you their full attention… With you and for you as you share. That’s the heart of ICF Competency #4, Coaching Presence, and in today’s episode, Vicki Corrington, PCC will help us grow deeper into this important skill.
Tune in as we:
About Vicki Corrington, M.Ed, PCC, CPCC, BCC
Vicki Corrington is a Professional Certified Coach, Board Certified Coach, and a Certified Professional Christian Coach. She is a Coach trainer, teaching Essentials of Coaching, Coaching Skills Development Practicum, and Coaching Skills Mastery Practicum on faculty with the Professional Christian Coaching Institute (PCCI), having worked closely with Chris McCluskey since 2003. Vicki has a heart for missions and serves Youth With a Mission YWAM Leaders on the Core team for the Master’s in Christian Formation and Discipleship. Vicki is a former advisory board member and current member/presenter for the Christian Coaches Network (CCNI) and a member of International Coach Federation (ICF).
Waking up one day feeling as though “there were nothing left of her”, life coaching, combined with praying the word, was the process God used to transform Vicki’s life and to restore her excitement about making a difference helping others live more fully themselves, fully alive. She currently does this through one-on- one or group coaching, training and retreats… all bathed in prayer. She is a Certified Myers-Briggs Practitioner offering temperament assessment coaching services to clients and partnering with other coaches to offer temperament assessments to theirs. This tool fits well with her purpose to live in a way that her actions line up with who she is and what’s important to her…and to help facilitate that process for others.
You can learn more about Vicki’s Life Coaching, Mentor Coaching, and Retreat Coaching (as well as access her Readiness Checklist to determine readiness for coaching) at www.coachvicki.com. Vicki has been married to Dr. Ben Corrington since 1986 and currently lives in Camden, Maine. Together, they have been happy to serve people through professional chiropractic and coaching services as well as bringing leadership input to several churches throughout the years. Their son, daughter-in- law, and the two most adorable grandchildren ever live in Victoria, British Columbia. Too far away!
Gift-ology is the unique, generous approach to initiating and strengthening relationships. In today’s interview with John Ruhlin, author of Gift-ology, you’ll learn how to use gift giving to bless others while growing your coaching business.
Best of all, in the spirit of gifting, we are giving away 10 copies of a special Leather-Bound Edition of Gift-ology. Click here for your opportunity to win!
In the meantime, tune in this episode to learn how to:
About John Ruhlin:
John Ruhlin is the founder of the Ruhlin Group. John's company is trusted by the leaders of fast- growing companies to develop relationship building strategies and VIP gifting programs to increase referrals and strengthen retention with their most important clients, employees, and prospects.
Their clients include the Chicago Cubs, San Antonio Spurs, DR Horton, Morgan Stanley, St Louis Blues, and hundreds of other industry leaders and high end service firms.
He lives just outside of St Louis with his wife Lindsay and three daughters. His second best selling book, "GIFTOLOGY: The Art & Science of Using Gifts to Cut Through the Noise, Drive Referrals and Strengthen Retention,” has been featured in Forbes and Inc.
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Do you wonder what it takes to become a successful coach? Would you like a behind-the-scenes look of how it’s really done? If you said “yes” then you’re in for a treat today! We’ve got the information and encouragement you need to persevere and succeed.
Tune in to find out:
About Michael Powers
Michael works with others on their next best step upward. With a background that includes engineering, corporate strategy, and marketing, admittedly, he’s a bit of a strange combination of left and right brain thinking. His blend of creative and analytical skills enables him to assess complicated, multi-disciplinary issues, and help create the right path to success. As a marketing and sales executive, he designed and implemented complex corporate strategies, and has a track record of solid results. The companies he has been a part of have grown by more than four times in five years. He’s now focusing his efforts on assisting even more companies learn how to grow through executive coaching, asking the tough questions, and joining clients across the country as they move their businesses upward. He’s learned to play to his strengths, and help others do the same.
Michael feels blessed to be married to his best friend, and a father to four children, ages 26 to 11, two daughters-in-law, and one grandchild. He and his wife have also developed a passion for Haiti. He counts faith, family and friendships as his greatest treasures. He feels fortunate to have had great mentors along the way, and hopes to pass along a bit of what he’s learned to others to help them in their journey
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Have you ever wondered why people participate in mastermind groups? Today, you can be a “fly on the wall” in a live mastermind group to see what really happens and to determine if joining one is a good fit for you.
In this episode:
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Learn more about the coaches in today’s episode here:
Dale Young: https://coachdale.com/
Sharon Brani: http://heartprintscoaching.com/
Kerry Reddick: http://www.simplylifecoaching.org
Deirdre McGee: http://www.twelvestonescoaching.com
Jennifer Mcnaney: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifer-mcnaney-103a62123
Tony Noordmans: http://www.tonynoordmans.com/
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According to Forbes Magazine, only 19% of all US and Canadian workers report being satisfied with their work, with an additional 16% saying they are somewhat satisfied. That leaves a full 69% of workers who are not happy with their jobs. Whether you are a Career Coach or specialize in other areas, many of your clients will want some coaching around their career.
In this podcast, career coach trainer and best-selling author, Susan Whitcomb, will share:
About Susan Whitcomb
Susan Whitcomb is a leading authority on career coach certification training for entrepreneurial coaches, university career services professionals, and outplacement professionals. She is a frequent source for the media on career topics, quoted in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, US News & World Report, and numerous national publications.
She holds designations as a PCC with International Coaches Federation (ICF), Certified Career Management Coach, Nationally Certified Resume Writer, Master Resume Writer, and Credential Career Master and is certified in the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI®-Certified). WIth coach training from the Institute for Life Coach Training, Susan has also completed Dr. Mike Lillibridge’s Executive Coaching Practicum, Dr. Bruce Wilkinson’s DreamGiver Coach Training, and a variety of coaching seminars. An inspirational presenter and engaging trainer, Susan has logged more than 3,000 hours leading webinar and live coach-training instruction for the Certified Career Management Coach program, Certified Executive & Leadership Development Coach program, Certified Job Search Strategist program, and Certified Social Media Career Strategist program offered through www.TheAcademies.com.
Author of seven careers books, Susan’s books have been featured worldwide in Barnes & Noble and Borders, including the best-selling Resume Magic: Trade Secrets of a Professional Resume Writer (frequently the #1 or #2 most popular resume book on Amazon.com) . . ., Interview Magic: Job Interview Secrets from America’s Career and Life Coach . . . and the latest book in the “Magic” series, Job Search Magic: Insider Secrets from America’s Career and Life Coach which was nominated as Book of the Year in the Career Category by ForeWord magazine. She is also author of, 30-Day Job Promotion: Build a Powerful Promotion Plan in a Month, award-winning Twitter Job Search Guide (JIST), and coauthor of eResumes: Everything You Need To Know (McGraw-Hill). She has also created Career Magic: Career Coaching for the 21 st Century, a 400-page reference accompanying the Certified Career Management Coach program offered through Career Coach Academy.
In addition to founding Career Coach Academy and Leadership Coach Academy, Susan served as Executive Director of Career Masters Institute, a global association of leading career professionals, from 2004-2007. She is also a member of International Coach Federation, Christian Coaches Network, National Career Development Association, National Resume Writers’ Association, and Professional Association of Resume Writers and Career Coaches.
As the Career Coach’s Coach, she has guided dozens of professional coaches, career consultants, resume writers, and human resources professionals to a deeper understanding of career issues and coaching techniques. As a coach, she loves partnering with people to create a career filled with purpose, passion, productivity, and prosperity!
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Leaders can increase both their impact and effectiveness when they consciously step into a coach’s mindset and heartset. In today’s episode, we’ll share and discuss portions of Chris McCluskey’s inspiring keynote speech at Convene’s 2015 annual business and marketplace ministry conference.
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Asking powerful questions helps your client maximize discovery, gain clarity, create new possibilities, and shift paradigms. In this episode, Dr. Andrew Gorter unpacks this key ICF competency with helpful definitions, great examples, and Biblical principles.
You’ll learn:
- The types of questions coaches ask and how they differ from those of counselors and consultants
- The role humility plays in the coaching relationship
- Scriptural principles that undergird powerful questions
- Practical ways to improve your questioning skills today
About Andrew Gorter
Andrew Gorter, D.Min., ACC is the owner of Plus One Coaching, LLC and has more than 25 years experience working with people to help them clarify what’s next for themselves and to take action to fulfill their calling and achieve their goals.
He is a trained and licensed as a Marriage and Family therapist and has practiced family therapy through a non-profit counseling practice he established in 2002. He is an expert in healthy interpersonal communication, and since establishing Plus One Coaching, LLC he has brought together his passion for coaching and his expertise in family therapy to establish a niche coaching family business leaders.
Throughout his career Andrew has endeavored to lead and serve people and organizations as they face necessary challenges to move forward and to do that in healthy creative ways. From his early career in pastoral ministry to his development of a non-profit counseling ministry and, most recently, Plus One Coaching, Andrew has gained a wealth of experience joining with people to solve problems.
Andrew and his wife, Karen, live in Holland, MI, near the beaches of Lake Michigan. They have two married daughters and three grandsons. He enjoys hiking, watercolor painting, reading and woodworking. He and Karen love just hanging out, especially in beach chairs with their toes in the sand. You can explore further at his website, www.plusonecoaching.com
You can pick up informative assessment, “Strategies to Manage Your Energy” here: "Strategies to Manage Your Energy"
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Our hyperconnected world offers constant distractions. Yet, as coaches and entrepreneurs, it’s important to focus and bring our best selves to all we do. In his best-selling book, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World, Cal Newport, shares the results of his recent research on the power of focus and lays out some key strategies that will help us all. In this episode, we’d like to share some of those insights with you.
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Do you or your clients ever rush from project to project and crisis to crisis without stopping to plan for the life you really want? Our days are too few and too important to spend aimlessly and without intention. Yet all too often, that’s where we find ourselves.
Tune in to learn how you and your clients can write mission statements that will help you…
– Bring meaning back into your daily to-dos
There’s a supernatural way to overcome the busy-ness of your business, and it’s accessible to you 24/7. When you feel like there’s too much to do and too little time, money, and energy to do it, prayer sometimes becomes a last resort. But just imagine what could happen if you put prayer first!
Tune in to discover:
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Listen in as Brent O’Bannon coaches a business leader through a tough team decision in this demonstration of Master-Full coaching. This coaching session is a great example of professional grade Leadership Coaching.
In this episode you’ll hear Brent help the client:
About Brent O’Bannon
Brent O’Bannon is a PCC and the first GALLUP-Certified Strengths Coach in the world.
He coaches and leads entrepreneurial leaders, sales teams, coaches and multi-million dollar companies to maximize, mobilize, and monetize their human capital strengths.
Brent teaches the PCCI Strengths Based Coaching course and is a recent Amazon #1 best-selling author of Selling Strengths: A Little Book for Executive and Life Coaches About Using Your Strengths to Get Paying Clients. Join his vision to champion strengths for global excellence at www.brentobannon.com.
We know that "life's a journey, not a destination," yet we still experience struggles with navigating that journey. Join us for some encouragement and wisdom from Aaron Walker, a man who truly knows what it's like to struggle up the mountain... especially when it comes to business, entrepreneurship, and money.
You’ll learn how to…
~ Gauge your heart-set and mindset to recalibrate your whole self toward success
~ Let your faith influence your daily life so you can walk by faith, not sight
~ Delay gratification so you can focus on your values and do the hard tasks that actually lead to success
About Aaron Walker
Who is Aaron Walker? Businessman and Life Coach, Aaron T. Walker, has inspired many through his leadership, mentorship, and consistent pursuit of excellence. He enjoys helping others and believes experience is a great teacher. 35 years of entrepreneurship and marriage have given Aaron a wealth of experience. Aaron continues to reach new heights and broaden his perspective of the terrain by examining his experiences and growing from them.
You can learn more about Aaron at www.ViewFromTheTop.com.
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Using a proactive approach to pre-marital and marriage coaching is now easier than ever with the new SYMBIS Assessment developed by Drs. Les & Leslie Parrott. In today’s interview, Dr. Les Parrott shares how coaches can use this new tool to help save new marriages and strengthen existing ones.
Tune in to learn more about:
About Drs. Les & Leslie Parrott:
Dr. Les Parrott is a psychologist and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts - used by more than 1.5 million couples, coaches and counselors. He and his wife, Leslie, a marriage and family therapist, are cofounders of the renowned and game-changing SYMBIS Assessment. Les has been featured on The Today Show, The View, Good Morning America, CNN, and Oprah, as well as in USA Today and the New York Times. Les and Leslie live in Seattle with their two sons. Learn more at LesandLeslie.com or find out more about the SYMBIS Assessment here: http://www.symbis.com.
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Got clients? If so, this episode may not be for you. But if you're among the hundreds of coaches we've heard from that struggle with securing clients to build their business, this episode was designed with you in mind. You've got your coaching education. You're ready to serve clients. But where are the people? We can help you find them.
Listen in to find out:
~ How to move from no network to new network so you can serve the people you're called to coach
~ Why marketing is easier and more natural than you think so you can demystify and uncomplicate the process
~ The 3 keys that will turn your initial touchpoints into coaching relationships
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Unresolved or poorly resolved conflict is costly in terms of relationships, productivity, and corporate culture. Everyone experiences conflict; but you and your clients don't have to be a victim of the consequences that come when conflict isn't resolved in a healthy way. Those are only a couple of reasons why today's podcast is a must-listen-to episode!
We'll create awareness around:
About Marg Van Herk-Paradis:
Marg Van Herk-Paradis specializes in working with congregations and organizations to address conflict, transform organizational culture, and clarify organizational mission and vision through the use of innovative and creative tools. Having worked extensively across North America, Marg specializes in facilitation, coaching and mediation for groups and individuals. Marg has worked in several not for profit organizations, Universities and a variety of church denominations and settings.
Marg’s professional experience includes over twenty-five years in not-for-profit and faith based organizations and seventeen years in a leadership position. She has a BA in Applied Social Science from Concordia University in Montreal and is currently completing a Masters in Theological Studies at Conrad Grebel University College, affiliated with the University of Waterloo. She has also completed a Certificate in Conflict Management and Mediation, as well as a Certificate in Conflict Management and Congregational Leadership with Advanced Standing from Conrad Grebel.
Marg's work with clients is informed by respect, the valuing of difference and the sacredness of every individual. Listening beyond words to the whole person is a cornerstone of Marg's practice: She believes that listening well and helping people know that they are loved can be transforming. She offers a hand of compassion and humility to those with whom she works.
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If you or your clients struggle with forward movement and seem to stay stuck, you won't want to miss this podcast. Today, we take the ICF Competency #8, Creating Awareness, and break it down into bite-sized pieces for you.
Learn the importance of:
- Integrating and evaluating multiple sources of information so you can make interpretations that promote awareness, understanding, clarity, and goal achievement
- Facilitating a shift in mindset... the "aha" and "lightbulb moments" that drive forward momentum so being stuck is a thing of the past
- The 8 coaching skills required for growth in creating awareness so that you can continue to do God's work in your calling
About Dean Harbry:
Dean is a Professional Certified Coach, credentialed through the International Coach Federation. He brings a long history of visionary leadership and managerial leadership coaching with individuals from banking, finance, technology, manufacturing, media and sales. As a trusted advisor, he partners with executives to leverage human resources.
Dean’s coaching focus is to help organizational leaders develop and hone their influence skills, paying particular attention to overseeing authorities (like boards and bosses), as well as peer relationships, vendors and direct reports. True leadership influence addresses all of these relational contexts.
You can learn more about Dean Harbry here: http://internalinnovations.com/
Have you ever heard of Christian Mindfulness? Whether you have or haven’t, today’s podcast is packed with insights that will impact your personal life, how you lead, and your coaching practice. The cutting-edge field of brain science, applied to life & leadership coaching, will boost your effectiveness in all areas of your life!
Tune in to grasp a greater understanding of how neuroscience can help you and your clients:
About Charles Stone:
Charles has served 36 years in ministry, 24 of those as a senior pastor. Over half of those years he served in churches with over 1,000 attenders. He currently pastorsWest Park Church in London, Ontario, Canada. He founded StoneWell Ministries to serve pastors and churches at large through coaching and consulting.
He has spoken to over 1,200 ministry leaders nationally and globally at pastors’ conferences.
Charles and his wife Sherryl have been married for 36 years and have three children: Heather (34), Joshua (32) and Tiffany (29).
Charles’ education includes the following:
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