In this third excerpt (12 mins) from my interview with Doug Gfeller of The Coaching Perspective, we discuss:

• My strategies for building an online audience, and the value of this, particularly in terms of impact.
• How a book helps build credibility, even though it’s unlikely to make you a great deal of money.
• The importance of being found through Google, and how a strong online presence helps with this.
• How I help business leaders become coaches within their own institution, and how I work with professional coaches.
• How having a coach and moving your life forward can help those around you, particularly family members.
• The ways larger organizations are incorporating coaching into their processes.

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You can listen to the full interview, and other interviews with me, on the Podcasts page of my coaching website.

In this second excerpt (12 mins) from my interview with Doug Gfeller of The Coaching Perspective, we discuss:

• What I do differently from other coaches, and how I aim to create “leveraged” coaching relationships.
• How the idea of “givers gain” drives me in my work with my clients and gives me a sense of purpose.
• Why I started my daily series The Quotable Coach (which Doug has shared with many friends and acquaintances) and wrote my book The Quotable Coach: Daily Nuggets of Practical Wisdom.
• The way I use the quotes, adding a short, focused reflection and exercise, and how this has helped me send out a new email every day, Monday to Friday, for over two years.
• My earlier experiences with writing, and particularly with corrections and feedback, which made me reluctant to put my work out there for many years.

Click “play” below to listen to this part of the interview:

You can listen to the full interview, and other interviews with me, on the Podcasts page of my coaching site.

If you haven’t yet got your copy of The Quotable Coach: Daily Nuggets of Practical Wisdom, you can find out more about the book here or buy it directly from Amazon here.

I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Doug Gfeller of The Coaching Perspective recently, about “Building an Online Audience.” I’ve split the interview into short segments and will be posting them here over the next few weeks. If you want to hear the whole thing straight away, you can visit the Podcasts page on my coaching website.

In this first part (11 minutes), Doug and I discuss:

• My first profession teaching science — following in the footsteps of many of my family members who work in education.
• Why I left this profession and worked instead in pharmaceutical sales, and what these two careers had in common for me.
• How the 1992 Olympic Games inspired me to become a coach and support professionals in achieving “gold medal” levels of performance.
• How I work as a coach, and how my business has changed since I started 21 years ago — particularly in terms of finding clients.
• The typical clients who I work with and the length of time I normally work with them.

Click the “play” button below to listen to the interview:

You can listen to the full interview, and other interviews with me, on the Podcasts of my coaching website.

I’m thrilled to announce that my book The Quotable Coach: Daily Nuggets of Practical Wisdom is now available.

If you’ve been waiting eagerly for this announcement, here’s where you can get a hot-off-the-press copy:

Ebook: Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, or your local Amazon store.

Paperback: My CreateSpace eStore.

If you’re purchasing the paperback version via my CreateSpace eStore, enter the code 42E47C9N for a 10% discount.

Many thanks to all of you who helped shape this book, voting and offering your feedback on the title and cover design. Thank you too for reading and supporting The Quotable Coach, whether you’ve been getting these emails for a couple of days or a couple of years.

If you’d like to know more about the book, which is an edited compilation of 365 of the best quotes from The Quotable Coach (so far), you can get all the details here.

I’ve been interviewed again by Chris Holman of Michigan Business Beat. We had a wide-ranging discussion, centering on coaching within the business world.

In this six-minute interview, Chris and I discuss:

• “Soft skills for hard times” and how many people were let go in 2008-9 who had technical competencies but didn’t possess the softer skills of leadership, management, and coaching.
• How people need to be versatile and wear many hats in smaller companies, developing their technical and softer skills.
• The idea of “intrepreneurship”, including innovation, creativity, and the necessity of emotional intelligence.
• Welcoming diverse perspectives (e.g. from people much younger or older than yourself).
• Coming up with new ideas and new approaches by reading a wide range of materials from a variety of industries.

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