The Coaching Academy Blog

One of the keys to being a super successful coach is to get great testimonials. Testimonials are like proof. They create certainty in the minds of your prospects that they’ll be able to get similar results. Certainty is good, especially when people feel unsure about whether coaching will or will not work for them. Testimonials [...]

What attracted you to coaching? After spending the last 15 years in the world of corporates, I was looking for something that gave me more purpose and more satisfaction than simply selling computer systems. I had originally trained in HR and have always been fascinated in the world of psychology and completed an NLP qualification [...]

I am The Coaching Academy’s Trainer on the FREE Certificate in Personal Coaching 2 Day course. My favourite coaching question is When will you be taking this action? The question that often elicits a breakthrough or ‘aha’ moment is… What will happen if you do take this action? What will not happen if you do [...]

Everything starts with a conversation and so the quality of that conversation determines everything. Small Talk is fairly instinctive, but Big Talk requires something different: the right mindset and a strategy. Let’s put aside small talk and focus on the big conversations that can change life direction. There are many barriers to effective communication; sometimes [...]