A Fireside Chat with Dr. Patrick Williams

Loving With Intention

I am excited to tell you that my new workbook Loving with Intention: A Guide for Relationship Coaching is now available for purchase!

Cost - $24.95

Special introductory offer to ILCT Blog readers - purchase the book by Sept 1 and save on shipping and handling

Are you a life coach with a desire to assist couples in creating the relationship of their dreams?   Or, a psychotherapist looking to transition into professional coaching?  Relationship coaching is an emerging niche in the burgeoning field of professional coaching.  Loving with Intention: A Guide for Relationship Coaching is a practical, hands-on resource for working with couples. Whether you are an experienced coach or brand new to the profession, this book provides you with the tools necessary to establish successful coaching alliances with couples that will transform their relationships. 

For more information, go to: http://www.lifecoachtraining.com/Loving_with_Intention.pdf

To order, email lisa@livingwithintention.com

Write Your Way to Credibility!

Over time, you can build credibility for your business by publishing an e-zine and writing articles. Your clients, former clients, and prospects will view you as being an expert in your niche and trust you. You can also submit your articles to other e-zines for republishing -- this will increase your publicity and give you entree into their databases. Just be sure to  insist they include your name as the author and your contact information at the end of the article. If you don't enjoy writing, speak your articles and thoughts into a microphone and record your ideas -- then have them transcribed by a Virtual Assistant, or someone else, who can turn your spoken ideas into articles. Dont' be afraid to use your imagination and partner with others for your mutual success! - Coach Jim

Coaching the Global Village

Coaching the Global Village ™ ©:    A THOUGHT paper on powerful possibilities

Proposal:  To utilize the power of the coach approach as exemplified today with the evolution of the profession of Life Coaching for personal and professional growth, I am proposing that a Coaching the Global Village program/project be developed to create positive social change for the underserved, undervalued, underfed, undereducated, and underappreciated in many of the villages and towns of the world, especially in places like Africa, South America and Mexico amongst others.

My big vision is for a coaching initiative I am calling "Coaching the Global Village" in partnership with Rotary International, use the coach approach to combat hunger, poverty, and education in the poorer regions of the world.
Rotary of which I was a member for 15 years  is already in almost all countries...So i hope to propose a joint effort with them and then get coaches to volunteer their skills in third world countries.  Just as the medical profession has DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS, we surely have many highly skilled coaches who would volunteer their skills to provide coaching to village leaders and men and women who want to improve their lives economically, socially, spiritually and live more purposefully and in a way of thriving rather than surviving.  Yes, there are many services they need, but coaching as a conversation of empowerment, will evoke their own wisdom, and guidance to make a collaborative and creative effort to change their living situation. If more food is needed, what are the pathways? If better education is needed, what can be done creatively?  All of this can be accomplished in conjunction with existing governmental and international programs, and it can be magnified in ways outside of governmental bureaucracy just as Rotary International has done with eradicating polio throughout the world.  Or the model of micro banking that has been shown to be effective in small villages in third world countries.
And through these efforts, this initiative would win the Nobel peace prize!!!!!
Patrick Williams, EdD
Master Certified Coach and Psychologist
Author, Speaker, Trainer, Coach and
Ambassador of Life Coaching

Marketing Questions

There are a lot of ways to interview a prospective coaching client,
whether you do so over lunch or in a complimentary session. Here
are a few thoughts I've adapted over the years from the late Thomas
Leonard, who was one of my own coaching mentors. I hope you find
some of them useful in your own marketing strategies. Remember,
don't seek to "sell coaching" -- Rather, talk to people about what
REALLY interests them ... THEMSELVES! Happy marketing! - Coach Jim

Possible Marketing Questions

1.    Where do you want to be in 5 years?
2.    What’s the biggest challenge you're currently facing?
3.    What interests you most about coaching?
4.    How perfect is your life?
5.    If you could have anything, and money were no object,
       what would it be?
6.    When would you like to start working together?
7.    What are you looking for in a coach?
8.    How would having a coach help you (earn more, be more productive, etc.)?
9.    What are you wasting your time with?
10.    What’s holding you back the most?