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Professional Life Coaches need to expand the public awareness.
Palm Coast, FL
Friday, March 13, 2009
 
Redefine and Streamline your coaching practices now.

There is a great opportunity right now to expand the public awareness of coaching, and with that awareness we increase our potential client base. However, in this current market, coaches may have to consider making some hard adjustments, such as reducing their fees, doing more group-coaching, or finding other creative ways to bring in new clients.

For example, we can collaborate with folks from other industries such as:

• fitness training,

• corporate head hunters,

• accountants,

• lawyers,

It might also be useful to partner with other coaches in your area to market your services together in the print media, on the radio, or through making yourselves available to newspapers, radio shows, and television stations to talk about coaching as a way to assist people though the current economic climate.

It's also possible, at least for a short time, to redirect one's coaching efforts toward the corporate world, where streamlining, efficiency, and corporate culture are all on the table for redefinition as businesses try to minimize losses and increase returns.

Dr. Patrick Williams owns and operates the leading coaching school in the industry. At the Institute of Coach Training, Dr. Williams and his faculty have taught thousands of coaches from around the world to become professional coaches. Graduates of ILCT are proficient in the best practices of operating a sound coaching practice.

ILCT operates the larges referral based coaching network available in the coaching industry. Classes and workshops are offered monthly to help teach professional coaching students and graduates, the most current industry techniques to withstand a recessional economy.

Visit www.LifeCoachTraining.com to register for the newsletter or upcoming class.

Contact Dr. Patrick Williams directly at pat@lifecoachtraining.com, to ask any questions you may have about the Institute and his work.

About the Institute:

The Institute for Life Coach Training earned it is accreditation from the International Coach Federation in 2002. The Institute for Life Coach Training is the first-of-its-kind training institute that specializes in training psychotherapists, psychologists, counselors, and helping professionals, in building a successful coaching practice. ILCT teaches a coaching model that has proven successful in producing results with coaching clients. Its state-of-the-art coaching model is one that employs a whole person paradigm, powerful questions and purposeful inquiry, empowering tools, and results-driven principles.

For more information about the Institute for Life Coach Training, visit www.lifecoachtraining.com .

About: Patrick Williams, Ed.D, MCC

Williams is the owner and founder of the Institute for Life Coach Training, (www.lifecoachtraining.com), is an internationally recognized speaker and author. A master certified coach, licensed psychologist who began executive coaching in 1990. One of the first 24 coaches worldwide, who was awarded the designation of Master Certified Coach, by the International Coach Federation. In 1998,Williams founded the Institute for Life Coach Training, an ICF Accredited Coach Training Program.

Williams was a co-chair position with the ICF regulatory committee and former ICF board member. Currently, the elected president of the Association of Coach Training Organizations, and a member of the International Association of Coaching. Dr. Williams was also awarded the first Global Visionary Fellow by the Foundation of Coaching for his project, Coaching the Global Village (www.coachingtheglobalvillage.org).

Dr. Williams has co-authored and contributed many books including:

Therapist as Life Coach: Transforming Your Practice (2002, and 2007),

Becoming a Professional Life Coach: Lessons From the Institute for Life Coach Training (2007) and, The Philosophy and Practice of Coaching: Insights and Issues for a New Era (2008).
 
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Maribeth Pelly, LLC
Manasquan, NJ
732-245-4975
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