Warning Don’t Miss Out on This! I want to do something to help you fast-track your certifications keep you motivated and help you grow yourself and your ability to grow your coaching business This can be completed in less than 20 minutes per day. . . The International Authority for Professional Coaching & Mentoring have contacted us to say they will be closed between 18 Dec and 7 Jan for certification approval. . . This means we have 5 weeks to get you through and certified if you complete everything before 18th December If you do that as a BONUS I am going to give you 3 Live Strategic Interventions I have recorded from my annual transformation retreat in Bali. These are deep-dive live sessions which people loved watching. You can learn so much from watching coaching live. It will blow your mind. . . Clients paid $5,000 to come to the retreat. All you have to do is complete the Expert Coach Certification requirements and you will get them for FREE . . Here is what you have to do: - 1. Complete all modules of the Expert Coach Program (Less than 20 mins per day) - 2. Email us your tasking - 3. Email us a recording of one of your coaching sessions for us to review - 4. Complete the Coaching -Assessment document of that coaching session Who's up for it? Let me know
@Ed JC Smith hoping to record 2 sessions this week. Then will send my tasking with those. Then just a matter of responding through the levels. Hope to finish in December!
@Simon Minett I have a colleague who I have been mentoring anyway, one person here has offered to be a 'client' and I am a 'client' for another community member.
Please share some of your tips for group coaching, or maybe a thought it can help others as well to see different perspectives to how to approach it. Thank you
Have run group performance management sessions in the past. Pair people off for exercises depending on what the content is. Make sure all have equal air space especially those that are reflecting. Talk about the 4 different learning styles - activist, theorist, pragmatist and reflector and that all are important. Reflectors are often the quieter members who are digesting the information to form a synopsis. Look at how you have scheduled the time! I allocated 30 mins for one exercise and it went in to the lunch hour as it was an important one. I would have given it an hour instead.
@Nelson Montoisy could be this is more Myers Briggs which looks at personality styles and based on Jung's psychological types with lots of questions in the test. Learning styles are more about our instinctive response to a situation, usually during learning or taking on new ideas. We usually have a primary style and then a secondary style. Pyschometric testing is even more intense, focusing on behavioural style, intelligence and aptitude. All have merit but as said before, organisational psychologists would say it is an indication of how a person may behave at the time they took the test.
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Husband finally retired in 2023, I was made redundant but all ok as I got a good package. Selling the apartment and moving from France back to Australia after 20 years of work travel in different places. Another adventure but strangely daunting returning to your own country. Have talked about cultural re-entry shock with candidates and will experience ourselves!
@Edmund Fajardo good tests like Myers Briggs, Disc, 16PFs have lots of questions and there are some kickback ones to see if you answer the same way again. It is all an indication of how we may behave at that time in that situation. US graduates are often trained by universities/colleges how to answer these in such a way. Always good to use and have merit but if we need it explained and be able to use the results, an organisational psychologist is the best person to go to.
@Raj Dash absolutely! Organisational psychologists preface a psych test report with a sentence such as "this report is an indication of how an individual may behave". Note, indication and may! I too have changed over the years, not significantly but enough if the test was used for recruitment or a career path.
I moved out of the country and haven't seen my adult children since January and they are flying out to spend the Christmas holiday with me and I am very excited to spend quality time with them. I would love to hear your plans?
Traditional dinner on Christmas Day with an Irish friend who lives here, another friend is flying in from Berlin. We will be 2 Australians, 1 Irish and 1 British/German friend! All are bringing their own traditions.
@Amber Kosmas can be less pressured than family if you have the right mix! More like a full on dinner with cocktails and drinks and decorations thrown in!
Yo all. I am excited to write about my experience this morning. I threw out my own ideas of how to facilitate a transformative breakthrough session and did exactly what Ed taught in this course and used his templates - recorded the session for the certification as asked. My results were fantastic. Huge breakthrough using the belief chain breaker and a shiny client at the end. I am marveling at the way this is all set up - so generous and clear. The way we are incentivized to grow community - the materials - the encouragement - and the genuine care by Ed and his team. What’s next? No limits. When i get real results for my clients I feel I too evolve. What a great feeling.
Here’s a thought that just occurred to me. Tony Robbins talks about the different human needs - one being the need for significance. While I know that most of us coaches become coaches because we want to serve but is there a level of significance that gets created for us in the process of helping others? 🤔🧐 What do you think?
For both parties. My focus is on career counselling/issues - my significance is bringing decades of relevant experience to the table and the client is assessing their significance and asking for a coach to help them find that.
@Melinda Williams I am one of the first wave of TCKs, Third Culture Kids, lots you can find out about us. We moved, go to many schools (10 for me), shift through cultures and generally haven't experienced having a normal sense of home. Friends, pets, partners and furniture are often the key aspects that make a place home for a TCK.
What are your coaching goals? Do you plan to transition into coaching full time? What specific niche or areas are you focusing on in your coaching practice?
Following decades of executive recruitment, I found myself mentoring/supporting others career paths, issues etc. Moving back to Australia next year and looking to work with voluntary organisations to help people, particularly those from low-economic backgrounds, to get in to or back in to the workforce. Will happily do 1:1 consultations in general.
In organisational design/team creation, it is good to note the benefits and differences of 4 learning styles (Honey & Mumford). Activist – activists are the 'doers'. They need to get into the action and experience what they’re trying to learn. These team members often an open mind, they like to talk and brainstorm, and they’re open to group discussions and problem-solving. Theorist – They want to understand the theory behind the process or strategy. Manuals, models and reading up on facts are key for them to understand what the subject and intention is about. Pragmatist – Pragmatists want to know how to put what they’re learning into practice in the real world. They usually don't like abstract concepts or games. These team members will experiment with theories, ideas, and then see how they can practically introduce them to the day to day. Reflector – often the quieter colleague. They generally prefer to watch and listen, often thinking too much talk is happening but are great for a team as they can collect data, synthesise the conversation and offer a summary.
@Amber Kosmas then you are great for instruction. The positives are you really understand your subject and often create the Quick Reference Guides etc. Negative is that sometimes you don't have time to read everything which can unnerve theorists as they may feel they are going in uninformed. I am a pragmatist followed by a secondary learning style of activist. Pros and cons for all of the styles!
How do you as a business owner, coach, online social media producer, parent, daughter/son detatch your emotions from negative untruthful statements which people sometimes vocalize?.. so that you can smile calmly at that person who is speaking the lie with genuine kind eyes and goodwill to them? ... How can you repeatedly detatch yourself from getting bothered over these lies so that people eventually come face to face with thé truth instead ? What mental/spiritual/emotional exercises do you do to make those lies roll off of you like water off of a duck's back ?
@Sophia Habibeche well that is a step worse! I was amazed at the bravado of the person but I also believe in karma and sometimes we have to just move on.
Not knowing the dynamics of your relationships, sometimes go it alone, this is for you but just ask for support when you need time to focus on this course etc.
Hi team I am blown away with how much you all are crushing It it's going to be such an amazing community. I get tons of lovely messages from you and it warms my heart. Thank you all for being here. I appreciate you xxx. Could you do me a tiny favour If you are getting lots of value from being here and you love the Expert Coach Program I know 50% won't do this and that's ok However, I would really appreciate it if you just took a little time to do this. Because it means as we grow as a community I give back to you more I can arrange cooler stuff like live in-person events, add fun bonuses etc It does really help. So if you can Could you write a short testimonial underneath this post Won't take you more than a couple of mins To encourage new people to join us? -Why do you love the Expert Coach Community? -What do you think of the Expert Coach Program? -Why should someone join? Or whatever you want to say Thank you so much I do really appreciate all of you here growing this together Big love Ed
Really looking forward to moving in to a different chapter of my life. Have sent this link to others who are searching for something new and meaningful.