Niche-Phobia getting you down?

 Experiencing High Anxiety when you think about picking a Niche? What exactly is Niche-Phobia, you ask? It’s when you start sweating from every orifice once someone tells you that to get more clients, you need to market to one specific client group (e.g. overworked IT...

Chala update 2012

I hope this letter finds you well! 2011 was a really interesting and wonderful year for me.  As you may have already heard (probably from me!) I left my 20 year marketing career and 7 year beloved job at BIC and launched my coaching business full time last August and...

Coaching without trust

Ever try to coach someone who didn’t trust you? How far did that get? How about when someone you didn’t trust tried to coach you? Felt awful right? As Stephen Covey says “Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s...

Is there such a thing as a “bad question”?

In my world, YES. Within the context of being a “coach manager” (someone who not only allows others to come up with the solutions but actually facilitates others in creating the solution) you can actually do more harm than good if you ask a bad question. What’s a bad...

Change the way you talk, change your results

My client Gerry thinks he’s unappreciated at work. The truth of the matter is that his boss just isn’t very good at communicating his praises to him. Angela is calling a divorce lawyer this week–her husband won’t talk about their problems. John and Dave work in...