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Top Ten Radical Actions for Finding a Partner

The following is an excerpt from Top Coaching Techniques.

1.     Declare to all your friends that you’re available.  Let them know the type of partner and relationship you’re looking for.

2.     Ask 20 people out in the next seven days.

3.     Join a dating service (try it!).

4.     Get listed on the Internet dating sites (If you’re embarrassed, get over it! This is a non-confronting way to check people out, and it’s fun!)

5.     Place a personal ad.

6.     Do a personal development course.

7.     Join 1-3 clubs/courses where people share a common interest with you, and where you’ll have fun (e.g. yoga, bush walking, dancing, indoor rock climbing, film club)

8.     Polish up your life to become more attractive (i.e. list 5 things in your life which you know you should handle, and get them handled! E.g. health, house, car, fight with a friend)

9.     List 5 people you would normally not ask out on a date (e.g. they’re not perfect, not your type, probably not interested, you’re not attracted to them), and ask them out! (Trust me – if nothing else, this gets you out, and lubricates the dating wheels)

10.    Declare to yourself that you will be single for 6 months, and simply have the best time you possibly can! (You become a magnet!)

Finding A Client’s Gap

The following is an excerpt from Top Coaching Techniques.

Coach: The other way I see it is an enrollment session. It’s a chance for you as the coach to create a gap for them. To really help them see the gap between what they want and what they have, so they are pulled forward and they’re excited. They are lit up. They see, ‘Yes, that’s what I want.’ and ‘Yes, I see it’s possible.’

Client: I don’t know that you’re actually creating the gap, because the gap is always there.

Coach: Well, yes and no. Sometimes they come to you and they’re not even sure what they want or they might want something, but it’s really not lining them up. They think, ‘Oh, this would be good. I want a relationship where we aren’t fighting all the time.’ and you say, ‘Well what would it be like to have a relationship where you are lit up all the time, and you are telling everyone how great your relationship is?’ You’ve just created a gap and that’s your job.

What is Coaching?

The following is an excerpt from the CoachStart Manual. 

Coaching is essentially a conversation between a coach and his or her client, starting with the aim of helping the client to live a fulfilling life.  This is most often achieved by helping the client:

(a)   Set goals that will add significantly to your client’s life (or as I like to say, and ‘put a BIG smile on your face’).

(b)   To achieve those goals.

In this way, coaching can be broken down into two halves and this is a great way to communicate coaching to prospective clients.

You may also help the client live a more fulfilling life by helping them to increase their level of self-awareness. This alone can help someone move forward in any area.

Of course, sometimes the client may want to achieve a specific goal that the coach may not agree with (that achieving that goal will not add significantly to that person’s life).  In such a situation, the coach may point this out — either immediately, or over time — and will still be willing to work on achieving the goal.

Golden Rule: Coach 50 People

The following is an excerpt from the CoachStart Manual. 

What holds back most coaches in the early years is lack of confidence.  The best way to bust through this barrier: coach fifty people!  It doesn’t matter if it’s just a practice session or if it turns into three months of coaching.

Clients are “gold” for you – no matter what the fee.  So don’t let your fee or lack of confidence stand between you and coaching many people.

Every client you have gives you:

  • The feeling that you are really a coach, not a fraud
  • A practice that looks a little more busy (“Sorry — that time slot is not available.”)
  • The potential for referrals
  • Free training!
  • More and more confidence with every session you do, and lastly
  • Possible revenue — either immediately or down the track

Marketing for a Professional Practice

The following is an excerpt of one of David’s coaching sessions in Top Coaching Techniques.

David: Well it’s not quite a plan but it’s the beginning of a plan.

Client: Yeah.

David: Awesome. You got a pen?

Client: Yeah. I’m taking notes.

David: All right, you’re going to love this. Lots of stuff to soak up, so actually I might even send you a copy of the recording because I think there’ll be a lot here. Okay. To start, the writing of the article, I would suggest if you do this you don’t just do one. Writing articles, in fact everything you do here, should be part of a long-term plan. If you’re going to do the article approach, great. Work out when every single month you’re going to sit down and write your article. Have your list of journals or magazines that you’re going to send it to, and cultivate a relationship with them, and get yourself published every month.

Client: Every month?

David: Well, or every quarter or whatever it is, but it’s a system rather than – because it’s so easy to come up with 20 good ideas and try and do them all, but you may not get any impact out of it until the sixth month, when people start to know who you are and they’ve read your second article. So, if you are going to do this one.

Selecting Target Organizations

The following is an excerpt from the CoachStart Manual.

Who would benefit from your talk and ideally would pay for it (associations, clubs, charities, corporations)?  Some will pay; some are just a training ground, testimonial builder, and a place to get individual clients!  Source them from friends, yellow pages, people in the speaking industry, Chambers of Commerce, Libraries, a local chapter of The National Speaker’s Association (NSA).  All will have a list of service groups, associations, etc… that want and need speakers.  Joining a Toastmaster group is also a great idea, and they have a speaker’s bureau which supports their members in getting speaking engagements.

Call or email your friends and colleagues and ask them which clubs they belong to which might need a speaker.

You might provide ‘lunch and learns’ at companies and organizations.  These are for free or fee, and are provided during the employees’ lunch hour.  It is a way for the company to provide self-development/educational programs and for you to get in front of decision-makers and show them what you can do. Your friends within corporations might be able to put you in touch with the right person who organises or approves these within the company.

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