Henry Ford said, “Whether you think you can or you think you can’t… – you are right.”

As the world becomes more connected than ever through social media and the internet, I find people are challenged every day to make the right choices and handle difficult situations in their businesses.  Self doubt and low self esteem are critical issues for entrepreneurs in today’s busy world.  Using the services of a coach is a positive approach to helping them build meaningful relationships and focus on handling these issues.

I am known for my “business approach” to planning and implementing a road map for people to follow to their desired level of achievement.  I take people through my strategic program called, “The Blossom Effect” which effectively helps them discover their strengths to grow themselves and believe in themselves and their business.

DSWA Coach Excellence

Through the DSWA Coach Excellence program, I learned many valuable tools to improve this program. One of these tools included a thorough study of asking powerful questions.

I carry out this skill on every coaching call and find greater success in communicating and helping a client move to a more confident level in building her business.  I really enjoy this process in helping a client discover her belief in her ability to perform at a higher level of success.

Each of us may have a great plan and a winning strategy, but I believe it’s a woman’s level of confidence and belief in herself that affects her ability to take action.  My responsibility as a coach is to help women discover these abilities and the modules and webinars provided by the teachers at DSWA Coach Excellence enabled me to improve these skills in becoming a more qualified, authentic coach.

In my coaching experience over the last 15 years, I have used the “Expert Question” technique to discover a person’s needs.  The training on this topic at the DSWA Coach Excellence School on asking powerful questions from a coaching perspective was a huge benefit to me in adding value to others.  Participating in each webinar, I took copious notes and wrote copious questions that were presented on most of the modules including goal setting, commitment, accountability, feedback and building conversations.  From this, I created a “Powerful Question” folder which I use over and over in my present coaching practice.

Powerful questions are the ones that are simple, direct and open ended.  They provide a platform to help discover and articulate our best beliefs.  What are other coaches doing to discover and hold onto their powerful questions?

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Direct Sales Training Sweepstakes

As part of the annual Black Friday Give-Away, DSWA member, Deb Bixler and the Cash Flow Show website have launched a direct sales – home business sweepstakes called the Turkey Trot!

Turkey Trot Training

At the CashFlowShow party plan website Deb does not like all the big hyped up marketing events that are pitched on Black Friday and Cyber Monday so she does just the opposite….

They have an annual give-away for the clients, friends and website guests! This year she has put together a massive direct sales educational prize package with 3 awards!

The Home Party Sales Training Sweepstakes

The grand prize includes over $2552 in prizes for the lucky direct seller with everything from home party plan training courses to books, CDs, and a newsletter service subscription with newsletter content for a year!!

DSWA Sent You

WOW!! You better get over there and learn how you can win by visiting the largest FREE home party plan training center on the web! Make sure you tell them that “DSWA” sent you!!

This prize package just might have your name on it!! It could be just the thing you need to make 2012 the best year ever!

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What Makes A Good Coach?

Great coaches want to hear what comes after the first words from their client. Good coaches listen to the first thoughts. Common coaches want to talk.

Coaching Allows For Silence

Coaching is coaching… What is the difference?

Great coaches become comfortable with silence.  When you have a chance, talk to a top coach.  You’ll discover that they all share one important attribute.  They don’t see a need to talk.  Instead, they try to create opportunities to listen and discover.  If we, as coaches, are talking, then the client can’t or won’t.  That’s backwards.  If we can maintain the silence, then the person we are coaching has the opportunity to think, discover and even create powerful opportunities.

As Deepak Chopra expressed this thought, “The space between thoughts are the place where insight can make itself known.”

An acronym to describe the mental process of great coaches is WAIT.

• Why Am I Talking?

If the talk is not to discover, understand, ask questions, empower, or challenge, then a great coach isn’t talking.

Ask yourself: Why am talking?

When the answer is about you, don’t.

If it’s about the person being coached, speak. I have a friend I’ve watched coach.  She will often put her fingers over her lips to remind herself of WAIT.

Silence produces some enormous differences in our thought patterns.  When we talk, we are thinking about ourselves—our words, ego’s, and effects.  When we push ourselves to be silent, we are concentrating on the other person.

How do you keep yourself quiet?

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