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About David Wood

For 20 years David has helped entrepreneurs around the globe to grow their results, by growing themselves. A former consulting actuary to Fortune 50 companies in New York, David quit corporate life to pursue his inner journey, which now deeply influences his work. A digital nomad, David is currently dancing salsa, paragliding, and coaching his rock star entrepreneur clients from Colombia. His specialty is doubling your productivity and profits, while halving your stress. If you become a highly authentic and inspirational leader in the process, well….that can’t be helped.

Key Steps for New Coaches – Part 1

The following is an excerpt from the CoachStart Manual.

Here are the key steps:

  1. Interview 2-3 coaches to find out more about the career and lifestyle you would be getting into.  They can tell you the good and the bad; how easy or difficult it is; and … how they got started.
  1. Hire a coach and experience coaching for yourself.  But don’t get coached on Becoming a Coach.  Not just yet.  Get coached on something else you want to achieve or something you want to alter in your life.  This will give you the best feel for whether or not this is the career for you. AND, it’s actually the best training you can get.  Training from a live course, teleclass, book, or online environment is great.  But there’s no substitute for the experience of personally being coached, and seeing how an experienced coach moves you forward.

Develop a Relationship with a Successful Speaker

The following is an excerpt from the CoachStart Manual.

Ask for referrals of the ones he/she is not willing to do; e.g., they can’t pay enough. Offer to go along and assist at their talks. Many really are open to this kind of help.  Or ask them what kind of help they could use.  Many new speakers apprentice, and again, a local chapter of the NSA is a great place to find a speaker that one can shadow.  Also, the local chapters of NSA have mentoring programs that match up new speakers with experienced ones.

Guarantees- What is their refund policy?

The following is an excerpt from David’s independent report on coaching training and certification.

If you’ve done thorough research, this might not be too important to you. However, you’ll have more peace of mind joining with a company that has a generous refund/cancellation policy if you’re not satisfied with the training and/or service. Often this shows they are confident in their service, and that they have a low refund rate.

If they don’t provide refunds at all – it’s possible that it’s to support your commitment. But you need to satisfy yourself that they don’t have a list of complaints against them by disgruntled students.

In any event, it’s a good idea to view testimonials, and even contact current or former students to have a chat before signing up.

Take Advantage of Public Speaking Opportunities

Put what you most want people on the planet to know into a 30-minute speech. Call your local Rotary, Lions and Apex Clubs – in fact any clubs in your area – and offer to speak at their regular meetings. While it can be very scary at first, get five of these under your belt, and you’ll start to worry less about how you look and more about what kind of impact you can make. Plus – it’s great for getting clients.

The Importance of First Drafts

The following is an excerpt of a transcript with a client.

Client:  Around the newsletter, I actually started the freebie, and  I’m kind of designing that from what I felt.  It was a little tough but I did a draft.

David:  Alright, very good.  I like that you said that you did a draft.  This is really important.  I get into this too.  I’m like, I don’t want to start it because I don’t know how to really do it well.  Well, do something, do it badly.  At least you have done it.  In the next time that you do it, you’ll do it better.  This is a key point around creating your product as well which I may see more about later that if you just think, “Oh, I have to create a product that I can sell and it’s going to be amazing” then it’s putting a lot of pressure on yourself.  It’s your first one, for most of you.  So you just want to create something and maybe you don’t even anybody but you’ve done the first one then you can create the second one.

Welcome Pack and Agreements

The following is an excerpt from the CoachStart Manual.

Rather than go through the theory of what you could provide when you start coaching, I’ll simply tell you what I provide:

  •  A List of Common Coaching Goals
  •  A Self Coaching Form (Preparation Form to fill in for each session)
  •  The ‘6/3 Goals Form’ (which helps them set out three goals with milestones and possible strategies)
  •  Our Coaching Agreement (which includes my policies and procedures).

While these forms will be available to coaches later in the year as part of a paid package, I wanted to give you one of the forms here free of charge:

I’ve included my coaching agreement here to give you an idea of the areas you could consider covering.  Please note that as I am not a lawyer I cannot give you legal advice.  I therefore recommend you get legal advice specific to your country and do not rely on this agreement for legal protection.

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