People-pleaser to an authoritative coach in 5 steps

“If you don't like something, change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it. ” ― Mary Engelbreit

Hi Coach,

I’ve had my head down finalising the book, and I’m excited to announce that?Become an Authoritative Coach:?Stop people pleasing, challenge your clients, and be indispensable, is now ready for pre-order.?Get your copy today .

I’d like to share with you the foundational framework that the book is based on. And so, here are the 5 steps we all must take to go from people pleaser to Authoritative Coach…

It starts with your…

Mindset

Becoming an Authoritative Coach begins with how you think about yourself, getting clear on the value you bring, and being self-confident and self-assured about your expertise.

It’s the mindset shift from friend to expert, amateur to professional, nice to kind, from being liked to being respected.

For the shift to happen in your client relationships it has to happen for you first. Ultimately, your mindset limits your ability to coach your clients to be successful at their highest potential.

Then you create your…

Status

The stakes are highest when you first meet your client. You don’t get a second chance to make a great first impression. You’re going to do everything within your control to ensure they are the right fit.

You will define the coach-client relationship, manage their expectations, and position yourself as an authority so the client gets a sense of who’s in control and leading the way.

What happens next will set the tone for what it’s like to work with an Authoritative Coach.

Then you go to…

Work

You can’t predict everything that’s going to arise in the day-to-day of coaching. That’s what keeps the work interesting! Over the course of many short and practical chapters, you will find various tried and tested coaching scenarios to give you a sense of how to respond authoritatively to real-life client situations.

As you expose yourself to unfamiliar coaching territory, come back to these chapters often and role-play the scenarios so that when they do eventually come up, you’re ready.

Then you create an environment for…

Mastery

To err is human, and unless each of us goes back to the well and keeps drinking, bad habits can form quickly in our behaviour. Just like high-performing athletes who attend their practice sessions every day, you must treat your work in the same way if you want to be truly indispensable to your clients.

You will become a ‘detached observer’ of your work so you can objectively see where you can improve.

You love the work and enjoy practice for the sake of practice itself.

And finally, you make…

The Choice

As an Authoritative Coach, you will continually strive for better. Every new client is an opportunity to start anew. To upgrade your clients. To do better work. To be a better coach. To have even greater success than what’s come before.

And so, get your head in the game, take your position, do the work, and learn from the challenges you come up against.

The work is never done, but it must also start somewhere, and that’s up to you - to choose what kind of coach you want to be.

Are you ready to make the transition from people pleaser to an Authoritative Coach? If so,?pre-order your copy of Become an Authoritative Coach ?today.

DFTBA!

Chris.