To be proactive means influencing outcomes or making them happen through action. It involves thinking ahead in terms of what is happening, choosing what you …
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Creating the Shift
Coaching is a great tool for creating a shift from procrastinating or being reactive to taking action and being proactive. Coach training highlights the importance …
Get it Right versus Get it Done
Sometimes people prefer to focus primarily on getting things right (35% of the population) and sometimes people prefer to focus primarily on getting things done …
Setting the Example
When people are considering coach training, the question sometimes comes up, “Are coaches expected to be perfect?” It is funny this is asked because ultimately …
Do Coaches Procrastinate?
Silly question – you may as well ask, “Are coaches human?” Yes, coaches procrastinate. More pertinent questions are, “How much?” and “How often?” The reality …
Procrastination – A Barrier to Success
What is procrastination? It means to put off, delay, or defer doing something. How is procrastination a barrier to success? To simplify, putting off tasks …
The Challenge: Shift from Limiting to Creating Possibilities
When you ask people what their biggest barrier to success is, how often will they respond with, “me”? What is it that has us limiting …
The Challenge: Shift from Passive to Assertive
A passive communicator is someone who waits for others to speak first. Often a passive communicator will refrain from saying anything and then, perhaps later, …
The Challenge: Shift from Externally Motivated to Internally Motivated
When someone is externally motivated it means their actions serve what someone else wants or they are avoiding a consequence. External motivation gets a short …
The Challenge: Shifting from Negative to Positive
The International Coaching Federation modeled being positive for all coaches and coach training programs when, in updating the Code of Ethics, they intentionally changed to …