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You can effectively coach clients through change
How change REALLY happens—and what you as a coach can do to facilitate healthy, effective change for your clients.
Coaching for healthy work/life balance
Most people you coach don’t suffer from laziness. Your clients live life in the margins. When push comes to shove they sacrifice their health (spiritual, mental, physical) in their efforts to lead well.
Ministry and Social Media
Whatever your feelings are about it, social media is an important piece of communication that you—and your ministry clients have to get right.
Year-end Giving: A Coach Approach
Have clients worried about not meeting their year-end goals? Let’s talk.
We are Thankful for YOU
We see you. And we are incredibly grateful for you and the work that you do. Here’s why…
Creative Approaches to Casting Vision
Helping them have eyes to see is the aim of casting vision. It is an essential piece of any ministry—for without vision the ministry will inevitably decline.
A Coach Approach to Annual Planning
If leaders or their staff get a pit in their stomach when it comes time for annual planning, coaching can help turn it into a productive and team-building experience.
Fight Pastoral Fatigue with Forward Movement
Fall fatigue is common in pastors. But why? It’s a time of the year when the congregation is back in the building, Bible studies are in full swing… the church is busy. So why are pastors lagging? Fall fatigue in pastors can be an indicator of how well the church is staying on mission.
Coaching for Succession Planning
A change in Senior Pastor leadership is never easy. Whether the change is sudden or a planned retirement, knowing the stages of succession and how to manage each well lessens the sting and sets the church up for a healthy transition.
Proper Care and Feeding of Volunteers
There is plenty of work to be done. Opportunities to serve together abound. So what is at the root of churches struggling to keep their volunteers?
Healthy, Effective Teams
In the short term, an unhealthy team may be able to get things done. But there will be a time when they can no longer hold it together. When that happens, any progress made is lost. Here are 5 qualities of healthy, effective teams and how to coach your leader to build them.
The Volunteers Pastors Need
Volunteers are at the core of getting ministry done and moving vision forward. Recruiting and training volunteers can be a full time job… and everything can still fall apart. Here’s how to coach your ministry leaders to spot, train, and mobilize volunteers that get the job done and come back to serve again.
Before you give up on your coaching ministry
Something feels off in your coaching ministry. Attendance is down, excitement has waned, things feel stuck and you’re wondering if it’s just not going to work. Before you close up shop read this.
Revitalizing energy for coaching
If you aren’t seeing results, your energy for coaching will become depleted. Let’s look at how well you are empowering the people you are working with.
Choosing the right coach
Many—if not most—of the people who have tried coaching and say it doesn’t work have all made the same mistake: they chose the wrong coach.
An Exercise to Define Your Ideal Client
Whether you are just starting your coaching practice or you have been at it for a long time – knowing your ideal client is so very important.
How to tell if you are a great coach
Anyone can say they’re a great coach. In fact, read through coach bios online and it sounds like they all are great. But you know that’s not always the case. How can you know where you really stand?
What sets you apart from other coaches?
What makes you unique as a coach? Hint: It’s not your area of expertise.
How is your follow-up question game?
You know that good coaching requires good questions—and you may already be good at asking those. But what about follow-up questions? Even those with strong coaching skills can sometimes fall short when it comes to a skill commonly called piggy-backing.
How to Make Change Stick
As a coach, you know change is hard. That’s why people need the help of a coach when making real change stick.
Simple Ministry Assessment
Your clients have plans and systems in place. The big question: Are they working? Help the ministry leaders you coach take a clear-eyed snapshot of where their ministry current is while creating action items with this simple ministry assessment.
What is your vision to cultivate leaders?
Every church should have a leadership development system. Even if that system is currently working, it needs to be assessed regularly to meet changing needs. Here are the basics that every leadership development system should have…
Get your clients ready for change
You are coaching change leaders, people who need to get others on board and growing toward to what’s next. Here’s a simple way to gauge the level of receptivity for change and discover the way forward.
Coaching for healthy work/life balance
Most people you coach don’t suffer from laziness. Your clients live life in the margins. When push comes to shove they sacrifice their health (spiritual, mental, physical) in their efforts to lead well.
Your coaching business depends on THIS
You want to be the one people look to when they need help or when they are ready to do what it takes to make their dreams come true. To be that person, there is one area that you absolutely cannot let falter…
How to connect with high-level leaders
You want to build your coaching business but you don’t want to feel like a salesperson working on commission. The good news is: you don’t need to work up a semi-uncomfortable sales pitch and practice delivering it. Here’s what to do instead…
Coaching the Megachurch
There will always be voices that rise above the din in Christianity and those voices will attract large congregations. The larger the influence the more likely a coach is involved.
Are you ready to coach large churches?
Large churches grow through a “front-door” approach. The key to its growth is what happens in the worship services.
22 Questions to Ask the Mid-Sized Church
On the surface, finances might be healthy, facilities appear sufficient and staff are content. Underneath the veneer however there may be a high level of dissatisfaction – and reason for concern! What strategies do you use when coaching pastors of mid-sized churches?
Not sure where your place is in ministry? Start here.
What do you uniquely bring to the table? It might be different than it was a few years ago.
Considering a new ministry opportunity?
How many times have you heard leaders share that they are considering a “new ministry” opportunity? How to help with discernment surrounding transitions.
6 reasons coaching is the best investment
Things are different now—and that make coaching more important than ever. Here are a few reasons why coaching may be your best investment in 2023.