Often our coaching may feel closer to counseling as our clients show a need for an internal shift. Brian and Chad discuss the distinctions of counseling and coaching and how coaching often is the right approach.

Grace Dyson started coaching during her corporate years. She talks about how she positioned herself within the company as a coach, used coaching in her leadership style, and how she prepared herself to leave corporate and become a full-time coach.

Her podcast is The Parent as Career Coach.

www.lifedesigncareers.com

After eight years of coaching, Brian decided to look at his coaching hours log to see where his clients came from. With 90 unique clients, here are some observations.

• Not one client came from my website, reading my blog, or social media. Not one. Ever.
• My first twenty clients came from wherever I could find them.
• Eight of my first twenty clients were the key to all the rest of my clients.
• Working these networks produced multiple clients all at once.

Chad and Brian discuss all the results on today's podcast.

Based on a blogpost found here.

1. Artifacts
2. Espoused vallues
3. Underlying Assumptions

Brian and Chad discuss the GROW model for coaching and walk through each step. This is a deeper dive than you might have already taken.

1. Goals (Future)
2. Reality (Present)
3. Options (What's possible? Discerning)
4. Who, What, When, Will to do it (Designing Actions)

Chad shares his honest opinion about the popular Enneagram assessment. There are things he likes. There are things he doesn't. Your opinion may be different.

1. The specific descriptions of human personality is true
2. Overall framework of human personality is not true
3. There is no validity backing it up

1. Positivity 
2. Resourcefulness
3. strong sense of self (confidence)
4. Self-discipline
5. Flexibility - Resilient people are not rigid people

Brian and Chad list six benefits of mentor coaching.

1. An outside perspective
2. Motivation
3. Confidence
4. Connections
5. Resources
6. Feedback

• What is the song behind the words that is keeping us all dancing? In other words, what deeper tune of the church is getting played in this circumstance? What is going on in this situation that nobody is talking about but is affecting the whole system of the church? - p 115
• I also often coach my pastor clients to give a yearly “I Have a Dream” sermon in order to keep raising the urgency in the congregation. - p 142
• As a coach to pastors, I am almost always in the role of confidant. - p 159
• I tell my coaching clients, “You must bring yourself to your role, but you are not your role.” - p 211
• I often coach my clients, “Make your goal in every conversation to have someone roll their eyes upward (which indicates that they are thinking differently) and say, ‘That’s a great question.’” - p 213

1. Personal
2. Prevalence 
3. Permanence

5 aspects of a person:

1. Natural gifts

2. Acquired strengths

3. Personality

4. Spiritual Gifts

5. Character

Chad wanted me to make available a one page breakdown of the 7 Heavenly Virtues. You can download this helpful resource by going to www.coachapproachministries.org/virtues.

Instead of talking about coaching, Brian and Chad demonstrate coaching. Chad coaches Brian through an upcoming transition, then they debrief the coaching conversation.

Brian interviews former Special Agent Laura Sanders who worked almost 10 years for the IRS. Laura identifies five areas where the new tax laws will affect you on your next tax filing.

Brian and Chad discuss what it takes to grow your confidence and credibility as a coach. 

• A coach needs to understand the foundations of coaching
• A coach needs to know how to create relationships with clients
• A coach needs to hone their skills alongside other coaches

All these attributes can be gained through CAM's Certificate in Christian Leadership Coaching. 

In this classic rebroadcast of episode #32, Bill Copper gives insight into how to develop setting goals. This podcast has been one of our top downloads over the years!

Henry  Blackaby "Watch to see where God is working and join Him." Chad Hall and Brian Miller discuss how this influences Christian coaching.

1. Looking for God

2. Identifying snippits of activity

3. Joining the activity

Master Certified Coach Linda Miller, co-founder of Coach Approach Ministries, joins the podcast to discuss how coaching has impacted her life and how one might be able to coach both in the marketplace and in the ministry field.

You can contact Linda at lindamilleronthego@gmail.com

Her previous episode was #109 on Coaching Presence.

Chad Hall says, "You are either cultivating gratitude or resentment." If that's our choice, then we'd better be cultivating gratitude. Brian and Chad share some ideas on how to do this in this podcast.

Reggie McNeal is a City Coach with Good Cities and a senior fellow at Leadership Network. His book The Present Future was a game changer for a lot of people. He recently joined Good Cities as a City Coach.

Chad and Brian talk about group coaching and give four ways to coach a group.

1. Coach the group as a whole. The group helps process the group.
2. Coach the group as a whole. Tap into expertise of the group. 
3. Coach one person in the group. Others stimulated by that. (Jane Creswell describes this in Podcast #86)
4. Coach one person in the group. Tap expertise in the group.

Brian and Chad ask the why question about questions! Hang on to your seats as they dive deep into this issue.

1. Stirs awareness
2. Solidifies action 
3. Moves the process forward