The Coaching News

I wasn't always the Admissions Director at Corporate Training. A few years ago, I was downsized, scared, and wondering where my next pay check was going to come from. Every week, I'd complete my unemployment paperwork and wonder what my next step would be. I spent a lot of time researching, and finally decided to make a really big (four-digit big) investment in coaching training. But I was still so nervous. Was I making the right decision? If you're in that knee-deep, buried in research phase...if you're thinking this whole coaching thing might be a bit "woo-woo" (it's OK to admit it, I totally thought the same thing back them)...I understand how scary jumping from research to "I'm ready to enroll!" can feel. Here are a few things I invite you to ask yourself, so you can feel more confident about your decision to pursue coach training, and, more particularly, your choice of school: 1. How do I plan on applying my coaching training? ...

One of the biggest misconceptions I hear from people when they are considering enrolling in the coaching training program is that they'll need to quit their job in order to have the time to complete it. They often feel overwhelmed by everything else going on in their life, they couldn't possibly fit one more thing in. Right? Not true. What's really happening when they say "I don't have enough time" is that they believe the time doesn't exist. Their thoughts (that time doesn't exist) and feelings (that they're already overwhelmed) overshadow everything else and sways their (lack of) action. Who's in control? If they could take a step back and see that their mindset is controlling their outcome, and that they actually have the power within to make a different decision! If you're exploring becoming a coach, and you find time to be a limiting factor, know that it's possible to make a few changes to your routine so you can get ...

You wake up, get dressed, and start the coffee pot. You eat the same breakfast that you do every day, say goodbye to your family (both the two and four-legged) and head out for the morning commute. Some time later, you're sitting at your cubicle, and you can't even remember getting there. It's like you blacked out the last two hours. How is that even possible? Simple: You went through the motions. The same motions you do every, single, routine day. Nothing about your morning was memorable enough to stand out in your mind. It's like you're living someone else's life instead of starring in your own. I know this story too well. For a while, I felt like I was living in the zombie apocalypse. Every morning, I'd be surrounded by a horde of silent, eyes-glazed-over zombies traveling to Manhattan from New Jersey. They were blank and lifeless, on their way to sit in their cubes and stare at their screens all day. Without any living, breathing life around them...