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Effective Coaching Series

All the Tools You Need to Manage a Thriving Coaching Practice

Kevin William Grant

Effective Coaching Series Volume 1

Life Coach Handbook

Within this volume will cover the fundamentals of setting up a coaching business and share tools and techniques that will help you launch and run a thriving coaching business.

Coaching conversations leave clients invigorated, inspired, and ready for action. Life coaching inspires clients to live the life they want and live through the parts they don’t. Coaches draw upon the lessons the client has already learned and their strengths to achieve positive and lasting change. Coaching conversations help clients identify how to live their very best life, the one that taps into their full potential, strengths, and gifts.

Life coaching is a process of developing the questions that lead to the answers that are right for you. Fundamentally coaching does not assume the answers aren’t out there for you; you already have all of your answers. The coach facilitates the exploration of how and where to find them.

Coaching encourages deep reflection about yourself and your life to increase personal insight and awareness. Apply this new understanding to make clear, informed, and fresh choices.

Finally, coaching is about committing to actions that will create real, lasting change and move you towards a more meaningful, happy, and fulfilling life.

The coaching alliance is truly designed as a partnership in the service of a particular client's goals and desires—these are co-created with the client and coach.

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This textbook covers the fundamentals of setting up a coaching business. I share tools and techniques that will assist you in launching and running your thriving coaching business. I approach this topic from coaching, psychology, counseling, marketing, and corporate management perspectives. The following foundational coaching resources are covered in this handbook:

Context— Background information, research findings, theory, and contextual material that will give you the background you need.
Guidelines— Best practices that will streamline your coaching processes and guarantee you deliver high-quality coaching services to your clients.
Planning— Critical planning and decision-making techniques to rapidly optimize your coaching business.
Records— Best practices for professionally documenting coaching information such as notes, records, intake, agreements, questionnaires, and feedback.
Skills— Core coaching skills, techniques, and tips so you can get certified, launch your coaching business, and start immediately.
Mental Health— Insights, context, and tools that will ensure you take into account, manage, and appropriately refer clients with mental health issues.
Business— Foundational knowledge needed to run your business, manage financials, market your services effectively, create your brand, and build your Internet presence.
Exercises— Proven techniques that will generate immediate success by jumpstarting the coaching process with your clients.
Forms— Sample forms and business documents you can adapt and tune to your specific coaching practice.
Tools— Smart tools that will help pinpoint particular client issues so you can make informed, empathetic, and professional coaching decisions.

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Life Coach Handbook

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Introduction

Introduction
Comparing Coaching to Related Professions
The Origin of Modern Coaching
What Makes a Competent Coach?
Coaches Remove Obstacles
Synopsis

Coaching Business Fundamentals

Introduction
Vision, Mission, Values, and Ethics
Identify Your Niche
Set Your Pricing
Develop Your Marketing Plan
Create Your Tag Line
Develop an Authentic Introduction
Market Features and Benefits
Create Your Internet Presence
Managing your Internet Identity And Persona
Setup Professional Communication
Create Your Marketing Tools
Marketing Your Business
Implement Customer Relationship Management
Form Strategic Alliances
Synopsis

The Welcome Package and Coaching Agreement

Introduction
Sample Welcome Letter
Sample Coaching Agreemen
Sample Client Consent and Agreement
Client Informationtake Questionnaire
Policies and Procedures
Synopsis

Core Coaching Skills

Introduction
Listening
The Structure of a Coaching Session
Powerful Questions
Communication Styles
Core Values Exploration
Vision Exploration
Goal Exploration
Assess Work-Life Balance
Giving and Receiving Feedback
Synopsis

Record-Keeping, Notes, and Privacy

Introduction
SOAP Notetaking
Initial Client Inquiry Notes
First Session Notes
Ongoing Session Notes
Coach Self Evaluation and Reflection
Upcoming Coaching Session Planning
Quality of Service Survey
Privacy
Synopsis

Focusing and Mindfulness

Introduction
Core Elements of Mindfulness
The Benefits of Mindfulness
Mindfulness Techniques
Gestalt Coaching
De-Cluttering
Journaling Form
Important Questions to Ask Yourself
Synopsis

Feelings

Introduction
Emotions and Feelings
Empathy Not Sympathy
Core Emotions
Identifying and Releasing Feelings
Identifying Emotions
Synopsis

Coping wIth the Impacts of the Pandemic

Introduction
The Impacts of COVID-19 on the Brain
Chronic Pandemic Stress
The Mass Trauma of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Treating Pandemic Trauma
Stigma and Prejudice
Quarantines and Isolation
Pandemics Force New Ways to Resolve Conflict
Synopsis

Change

Introduction
Optimism
Transtheoretical Model of Behavior Change
Action Requests
The Problem-Solving Process
Synopsis

Life Transitions

Introduction
Supporting Clients Through Life Transitions
Emotional Exhaustion, Burnout, and Life Transitions
Working with Grieving Clients
Mourning
Letting Go and Moving Forward
Life Transition Coaching
Career Transition Coaching
Managing Employment Transitions
Taking Inventory of Transferrable Skills
Dating and Anxiety
Synopsis

When Coaching is Not Appropriate

Introduction
What is Psychotherapy?
The Mental Health Impacts of Stress
Trauma
Panic Attacks
Stress and Burnout
Stress, Anxiety, and the Benefits of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Mental Health Assessment
Finding Professional Support
Mental Health Recovery from the Client’s Perspective
Referring Clients With Mental Health Issues
Building A Wellness Recovery Action Plan
How the Client Wants Support Delivered
Researching Preferred Recovery Resources
SelectIng Local Professional Resources
Schedule A Professional Consultation
Synopsis

Stress and Workplace Trauma

Introduction
Organizations that Inhibit Innovation
Workplace Power Dynamics
Emotional Numbing
Managing Conflict
Abusive Workplaces
Toxic Workplacess
Factors That Create a Toxic Culture
Health and Mental Health Impacts of Toxic Workplaces
Workplace Trauma Denial
Workplace Bullying
Toxic Behavior
Chronic Stress and Work-Life Balance
Management Revenge and Being Set-up-to-Fail
Synopsis

Maintaining Mental Health

Introduction
Building and Maintaining Your Network
Healthy Coping
Monitoring for Signs of Potential Relapse
Coping with Trauma Triggers
Coping with Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors
Managing Setbacks with Compassion
Synopsis

Innovation Fundamentals

Introduction
Defining Innovation
Experimentation
The Innovation S-Curve
Sustaining Versus Disruptive Innovation
Incremental Versus Disruptive Innovation
Innovation Horizons
Innovation Process
The Iterative Spiral Approach
Innovation Ambition
Fail Fast, Fail Often, Fail Cheaply
When To Copy and Improve Rather Than Innovate
Training Innovation May Not Be Possible
How Innovation Succeeds
Personality and Innovation
Synopsis

Artifical Intelligence and Transformation

Introduction
AI Trends
AI Transforming Organizations
AI Transforming Management
AI Will Eliminate Middle Management
AI Transforming Banking
AI Transforming Cybersecurity
Societal Implications of AI
The Coming Singularity
Synopsis

Final Thoughts

Introduction
Coaching Trends
Continuing Your Learning

Appendix A: International Coaching Federation Core Competencies

Core Competencies Overview
Core Competencies in Detail

Appendix B: International Coaching Federation Code of Ethics

Introduction
Key Definitions
ICF Core Values and Ethical Principles
Section I - Responsibility to Clients
Section II - Responsibility to Practice and Performance
Section III – Responsibility to Professionalism
Section IV - Responsibility to Society
The Pledge of Ethics of the ICF

Appendix C: International Association of Coaching Masteries

Overview
Establishing and maintaining a relationship of trust
Perceiving, affirming and expanding the client’s potential
Engaged listening
Processing in the present
Expressing
Clarifying
Helping the client set and keep clear intentions
Inviting possibility
Helping the client create and use supportive systems and structures

Appendix D: International Association of Coaching Code of Ethics

Ethical Principles
Code of Ethics
General Standards
Advertising/Public Statements
Coaching Relationship
Privacy and Confidentiality
Coaching Training
Coaching Research and Publishing

References

Index

First Edition

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Life Coach Handbook

First Edition

The Coaching Profession

Introduction
Comparing Coaching to Related Professions
The Origin of Modern Coaching
What Makes a Competent Coach?
Coaches Remove Obstacles
Synopsis

Coaching Business Fundamentals

Introduction
Vision, Mission, Values, and Ethics
Identify Your Niche
Set Your Pricing
Develop Your Marketing Plan
Create Your Tag Line
Develop an Authentic Introduction
Market Features and Benefits
Create Your Internet Presence
Managing your Internet Identity And Persona
Setup Professional Communication
Create Your Marketing Tools
Marketing Your Business
Implement Customer Relationship Management
Form Strategic Alliances
Synopsis

The Welcome Package and Coaching Agreement

Introduction
Sample Welcome Letter
Sample Coaching Agreemen
Sample Client Consent and Agreement
Client Informationtake Questionnaire
Policies and Procedures
Synopsis

Core Coaching Skills

Introduction
Listening
The Structure of a Coaching Session
Powerful Questions
Communication Styles
Core Values Exploration
Vision Exploration
Goal Exploration
Assess Work-Life Balance
Giving and Receiving Feedback
Synopsis

Focusing and Mindfulness

Introduction
Core Elements of Mindfulness
The Benefits of Mindfulness
Mindfulness Techniques
Gestalt Coaching
De-Cluttering
Journaling Form
Important Questions to Ask Yourself
Synopsis

Feelings

Introduction
Emotions and Feelings
Empathy Not Sympathy
Core Emotions
Identifying and Releasing Feelings
Identifying Emotions
Synopsis

Coping wit the Impacts of the Pandemic

Introduction
The Impacts of COVID-19 on the Brain
Chronic Pandemic Stress
The Mass Trauma of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Treating Pandemic Trauma
Stigma and Prejudice
Quarantines and Isolation
Pandemics Force New Ways to Resolve Conflict
Synopsis

When Coaching is Not Appropriate

Introduction
What is Psychotherapy?
The Mental Health Impacts of Stress
Trauma
Panic Attacks
Stress and Burnout
Stress, Anxiety, and the Benefits of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Mental Health Assessment
Finding Professional Support
Mental Health Recovery from the Client’s Perspective
Referring Clients With Mental Health Issues
Building A Wellness Recovery Action Plan
How the Client Wants Support Delivered
Researching Preferred Recovery Resources
SelectIng Local Professional Resources
Schedule A Professional Consultation
Synopsis

Change

Introduction
Optimism
Transtheoretical Model of Behavior Change
Action Requests
The Problem-Solving Process
Synopsis

Life Transitions

Introduction
Supporting Clients Through Life Transitions
Emotional Exhaustion, Burnout, and Life Transitions
Working with Grieving Clients
Mourning
Letting Go and Moving Forward
Life Transition Coaching
Career Transition Coaching
Managing Employment Transitions
Taking Inventory of Transferrable Skills
Dating and Anxiety
Synopsis

Record-Keeping, Notes, and Privacy

Introduction
SOAP Notetaking
Initial Client Inquiry Notes
First Session Notes
Ongoing Session Notes
Coach Self Evaluation and Reflection
Upcoming Coaching Session Planning
Quality of Service Survey
Privacy
Synopsis

Final Thoughts

Introduction
Coaching Trends
Continuing Your Learning

Appendix A: International Coaching Federation Core Competencies

Core Competencies Overview
Core Competencies in Detail

Appendix B: International Coaching Federation Code of Ethics

Introduction
Key Definitions
ICF Core Values and Ethical Principles
Section I - Responsibility to Clients
Section II - Responsibility to Practice and Performance
Section III – Responsibility to Professionalism
Section IV - Responsibility to Society
The Pledge of Ethics of the ICF

Appendix C: International Association of Coaching Masteries

Overview
Establishing and maintaining a relationship of trust
Perceiving, affirming and expanding the client’s potential
Engaged listening
Processing in the present
Expressing
Clarifying
Helping the client set and keep clear intentions
Inviting possibility
Helping the client create and use supportive systems and structures

Appendix D: International Association of Coaching Code of Ethics

Ethical Principles
Code of Ethics
General Standards
Advertising/Public Statements
Coaching Relationship
Privacy and Confidentiality
Coaching Training
Coaching Research and Publishing

References

Index

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Synopsis

"Innovation Coaching" offers an immersive exploration into the intricate interplay of innovation and mental health while charting the journey of nurturing creativity amidst an ever-changing global landscape. This comprehensive volume combines perspectives from psychology, coaching, entrepreneurship, mental health, and corporate management to integrate a holistic understanding of the innovation ecosystem.

Key Highlights:

The Power of Failure: Embrace the lessons that setbacks bring. Dive into how businesses can rebound from challenges underpinned by the crucial role of mental well-being.
Innovation Fundamentals: Beyond its buzzword status, what truly is innovation? Explore its multi-faceted definitions, the balance between sustaining and disruptive innovation, and best practices that bring ideas to life.
Emotions at the Heart of Innovation: More than just a cerebral exercise, innovation is deeply emotional. Delve into how feelings like guilt, anger, and empathy impact and shape the innovation journey.
Mental Health & Innovation: The book probes the intertwined relationship between mental health and innovation with compassion and depth. Understand both the exhilarating highs and demanding lows of the creative process and arm yourself with strategies to maintain equilibrium.
The Art of Facilitating Innovation: Learn what it takes to create a conducive environment for innovation. From setting up effective teams to the nuances of innovation labs, get insights into fostering a culture of creativity.
The Pitfalls of 'Fake' Innovation: Navigate the murky waters between genuine innovation and mere "innovation theater." Recognize the signs, understand the causes, and steer clear of superficial innovation practices.
Coaching for Innovation: Enter the transformative realm of coaching. Discover how coaching can catalyze groundbreaking innovation from its historical roots to its modern-day practices.
Adapting to Change: In a world in flux, the ability to adapt is paramount. From global phenomena like the COVID-19 pandemic to the tech revolution with artificial intelligence, learn to pivot and harness innovation in times of change.
The Art of Moving On: Change is the only constant. Equip yourself with tools and insights to manage career or life transitions with resilience and grace.
Final Reflections: Join the author on a personal voyage, recounting their innovation journey and providing a compass for the reader's path forward.

"Innovation Coaching" isn't merely a book—it's a compass for those navigating the dynamic seas of innovation and change. Whether you're an entrepreneur, a mental health professional, a coach, a manager, a leader, or simply someone invested in personal growth, this guide offers a treasure trove of insights, strategies, and stories that inspire and instruct. Embrace the odyssey of innovation, and let this book be your guide.