 Becoming
a Professional Life Coach: Lessons from the
Institute for Life Coach Training
by Dr. Patrick Williams & Diane S. Menendez
With his bestselling Therapist as Life
Coach, Pat Williams introduced the therapeutic
community to the career of life coaching.
Now, Williams, founder of the Institute
for Life Coach Training (ILCT), and Menendez,
senior trainer at ILCT—both master
certified coaches extraordinaire—reveal
all the basic principles and crucial strategies
that they have taught to thousands of coaches
over the years. Beginning with a brief history
of the foundations of coaching and its future
trajectory, Becoming a Professional Life
Coach takes readers step-by-step through
the coaching process, covering all the crucial
ideas and strategies for being an effective,
successful life coach, including:
- Listening to, versus listening for, versus
listening with;
- Establishing a client’s focus;
- Giving honest feedback and observation;
- Formulating first coaching conversations;
- Asking powerful, eliciting questions;
- Understanding human developmental issues;
- Reframing a client’s perspective;
- Enacting change within clients;
- Helping clients to identify and fulfill
core values, and much, much more.
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 Law
and Ethics in Coaching : how to solve
and avoid difficult problems in your practice
by Dr. Patrick Williams & Sharon Anderson
Law and Ethics in Coaching
co-edited by Patrick Williams and Sharon Anderson.
With contributions from a dozen academic,
legal, and coaching professionals, this book
is a must for anyone in the field of coaching
or whose organization uses coaching as a service.
"Filled with a dynamic
blend of case studies, discussion questions,
illuminating quotes, and other examples, Law
and Ethics in Coaching is both a trailblazing
professional reference and an unparalleled
textbook for coaching programs."
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 Total
Life Coaching: 50+Life Lessons, Skills,
and Techniques to Enhance Your Practice.....and
Your Life
by Dr. Patrick Williams MCC, Dr. Lloyd J.
Thomas
Life coaching is more than
a collection of techniques and skills. It
is more than something you do. Life coaching
reflects who you are-it is your authentic
being in action. Readers of Pat Williams's
and Deborah Davis's book, Therapist as
Life Coach, know Pat to be a gifted life
coach and passionate teacher. Here Pat and
psychologist/colleague and writer of more
than 1600 newspaper columns, Lloyd J. Thomas,
build on this earlier book and share a unique
insight into the coaching process, which shows
you precisely how to enhance your professional
practices through practical and effective
life coaching. It also empowers you to change
your own lives through use of the practical
information and philosophy presented here.
Total
Life Coaching is organized into
a series of 52 life lessons, and is designed
to be either read cover-to-cover or dipped
into, as needed, for assistance when conducting
a coaching session. Keeping life's processes
on the "message and lesson" level
makes living and life coaching much easier
and more enjoyable. Total Life Coaching
guides you step-by-step through the complex
process of learning and coaching these
fifty important lessons. The lessons are
organized into 8 sections: Creating a
Personal Identity; Coaching Spirituality
and Life Purpose; Coaching Communication
Skills; Living Life with Integrity; Success:
Clients Achieving their Potential; Coaching
Cognitive Skills; Creating High-Quality
Relationships; Understanding Your Past
to Create a Desired Future.
Total
Life Coaching by Pat and Lloyd
is more than just a book. It is an interactive
experience in which you will find recipes
for living your life more authentically,
as well as master time-honored lessons
that you can bring to your coaching clients
[or can incorporate in your own life].
Regardless of the personal coaching techniques
or skills you may have learned, you may
still not be the most effective coach
you can become. This book will help you
move closer to that goal.
Pat Williams, Ed.D., is
president and founder of the Institute for
Life Coach Training, an ICF Accredited Coach
Training Program. He is a licensed psychologist,
a Master Certified Coach, as well as the co-author
of the highly acclaimed Therapist As Life
Coach: Transforming Your Practice.
Lloyd J. Thomas, Ph.D., has
been an adjunct faculty member of the University
of Southern California and Albany Medical
College, and is currently on the faculty of
the Institute for Life Coach Training and
the International University of Professional
Studies. He is a certified life coach and
licensed psychologist, and for more than 23
years has written a weekly newspaper column, "Practical
Psychology.
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Therapist as Life Coach: An Introduction
for Counselors and Other Helping Professionals,
Revised and Expanded Edition
by Dr. Patrick Williams MCC, Deborah C.
Davis
A book for mental health
professionals considering a transition into
the new and dynamic field of life coaching!
Therapist as Life Coach explores life coaching
as a profession, examines the relationship
between life coaching and therapy, and details
the variety of options for professionals considering
either a transition into coaching or expanding
their practices to include coaching.
This book is one-stop-shopping
for the therapist wishing to explore the coaching
field. Every chapter in this second edition
has been revised, reflecting the growth of
the coaching field and its increasing appeal
to therapists and all helping professionals.
New material includes an overview of recent
coaching developments, updated liability concerns,
new business opportunities, and a new section
on the research about coaching.
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 Co-Active
Coaching
by Laura Whitworth, Henry House, Phil Sandahl, Henry
Kimsey-House
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 Wellness
Coaching for Lasting Lifestyle Change by
Michael Arloski, PhD, PCC
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For professional coaches who want to increase
their proficiency as well as those interested
in integrating coaching skills into their consulting
practice.
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Guided by his long experience as a wellness
coach, Dr. Arloski blends the wisdom of the
wellness field and the proven processes of the
coaching profession to bring us an easy-to-use
training tool perfect for Wellness professionals
at all level, and a textbook for wellness coach
training and one-on-one work through EAPS, counseling,
and therapy. |
 Masterful
Coaching:
Extraordinary Results
by Robert Hargrove
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 Take
Time for Your Life : A Personal Coach's Seven
Step Program for Creating the Life You Want
by Cheryl Richardson
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Written as an interactive
dialogue with the reader, Masterful Coaching emphasizes
core coaching skills--sponsoring, counseling,
acknowledging, teaching and confronting. Provides
examples of coaching for breakthrough results
from leading companies.
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Personal coach Cheryl Richardson
helps people create the lives they want. In
Take Time for Your Life, she shows you how to
switch from being stressed, unfulfilled, and
overworked, to "living a life you love" by
using a seven-step process.
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 Coaching
for Performance, 3rd Edition (People Skills
for Professionals)
by John Whitmore
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 Masterful
Coaching Fieldbook
by Robert Hargrove
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"A
new edition of the book that took the art of
coaching to new heights, this is the definitive
guide to mastering the skills needed to help
people unlock their potential and maximize their
performance. Whitmore explores the dynamics
of team development, positioning coaching as
the essential team leadership skill, and provides
extensive examples of effective questions that
can help ensure full participation in the performance
improvement process."
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Are you a masterful
coach? You can be! Picking up where his bestselling Masterful
Coaching left off, author Robert Hargrove
gives you the tools you need to compliment and
augment your existing coaching skills and make
you a masterful coach. |
 Change
Your Questions, Change Your Life: 7 Powerful
Tools for Life and Work
by Marilee G. Adams, Ph.D.
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 The
Mindful Coach: Seven Roles for Helping People
Grow
by Douglas K Silsbee
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| "Questioning" is a skill rarely taught
in school, but doing it well - that is, asking
the right questions of the right people - can
radically transform attitudes, actions, and results.
This book explains how to "be your own coach," outlines
the author's QuestionThinking Model, and lists
the top 12 questions for change. Real-world examples
provide practical models for applying the principles
in a variety of situations. |
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"Nearly everyone coaches at one time or
another. As parents, teachers, managers, consultants,
executives, therapists, or clergy, we foster the
learning and growth of others as a seminal aspect
of our relationships with them. Emphasizing a
potent combination of self-awareness, partnering,
and the skillful deployment of coaching roles,
The Mindful Coach provides an essential roadmap
for anyone responsible for supporting the development
of people." |
Other
Resources |
 Speaking
of Success - World Class Experts Share Their
Secrets featuring Patrick Williams, Stephen
R. Covey, Ken Blanchard & Jack Canfield
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 Creating a Life: Finding Your
Individual Path
by James Hollis
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Those who choose
to travel the road of success must also travel
the road of continuing education. Success is
about being prepared. Every time you read a
book that contains the experiences of successful
people, you are advancing on your own personal
road to success whatever that work means to
you.
The authors in this book will help you expand
your horizons and gain a whole new perspective
on how to achieve success!
The book also features best-selling authors
Stephen R. Covey (Seven
Habits of Highly Effective People),
Ken Blanchard (One
Minute Manager) and Jack Canfield
(Co – creator of Chicken
Soup for the Soul). Patrick Williams,
Blanchard, Covey and Canfield, are joined
by other well known authors and speakers,
each offering time-tested strategies for success
in frank and intimate interviews.
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Creating a Life is
a powerful commentary on the importance of the
examined life, illustrating how we may arrive
at an understanding of our life choices and
relationships by exploring our core complexes
and personal history.
With insight and compassion grounded in the
humanist side of analytical psychology, Hollis
elucidates the circuitous way of individuation.
The text is deeply enriched by the inclusion
of poems and excerpts from the works of many
modern writers.
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 Peace
is the Way: Bringing War and Violence to an
End
by Deepak Chopra
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 Speak
Peace in a World of Conflict: What You Say
Next Will Change Your Worldby Marshall
B. Rosenberg
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"There is
no way to peace, peace is the way."
Deepak Chopra expands on Mahatma Gandhi's
famous quote, teaching us how to expand awareness,
stop reacting out of fear, and reject war—one
person at a time.
As Dr. Chopra says, "Violence may be
innate in human nature, but so is its opposite:
love. The next stage of humanity, the leap
we are poised to take, will be guided by the
force of that love."
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In every interaction,
every conversation and in every thought, you
have a choice – to promote peace or perpetuate
violence. International peacemaker, mediator
and healer, Dr. Marshall B. Rosenberg shows
you how the language you use is the key to enriching
life.
Speak Peace is filled with inspiring
stories, lessons and ideas drawn from over
40 years of mediating conflicts and healing
relationships in some of the most war torn,
impoverished, and violent corners of the world. Speak
Peace offers insight, practical skills,
and powerful tools that will profoundly change
your relationships and the course of your
life for the better.
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 The
Power of Purpose by Richard J. Leider
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 The
Power of Inner Choice: 12 Weeks to Living a
Life YOU Love
by Mary E. Allen
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The Power of
Purpose: Creating Meaning in Your Life and
Work, by respected life/work planning
specialist Richard Leider, is a lofty yet
down-to-earth guide for people struggling
to find their true professional callings.
Developed through the author's considerable
personal experience and extensive interviews
conducted over the past 20 years, it's designed
to serve as a jumping-off point for those
who'd truly like to combine their "own
unique gifts" with "the needs of
the world" to carve out a vocational
niche that's both individualized and highly
rewarding. A helpful guide to using the material
in a reading group is included.
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From the cover: "The
Power of Inner Choice explores the 12 fundamental
choices and guides you to new levels of self-awareness
and possibilities. Build the skills for integrating
new momentum into your daily life. Transform
powerful theoretical principles into commonsense
applications by engaging in the exercises. Each
lesson has immediate relevancy to anyone's life.
Their cumulative result: a higher quality of
life, peace of mind, and a life that flows more
easily."
This is a very readable and practical
guide and one that lends itself very easily
to your work with clients, and especially
would be good for group coaching. Dr.
Patrick Williams
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 Essential
Spirituality: The 7 Central Practices to Awaken
Heart and Mind by Roger Walsh
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 Presence by
Peter M. Senge, C. Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski,
Betty Sue Flowers
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"Based on
over twenty years of research and spiritual
practice, this is a groundbreaking and life-changing
book. In his decades of study, Dr. Roger Walsh
has discovered that each of the great spiritual
traditions has both a common goal and seven
common practices to reach that goal: recognizing
the sacred and divine that exist both within
and around us. Filled with stories, exercises,
meditations, myths, prayers, and practical advice,
Essential Spirituality shows how you can integrate
these seven principles into one truly rewarding
way of life in which kindness, love, joy, peace,
vision, wisdom, and generosity become an ever-growing
part of everything you do."
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"Presence is
an intimate look at the development of a new
theory about change and learning. In wide-ranging
conversations held over a year and a half, organizational
learning pioneers Peter Senge, C. Otto Scharmer,
Joseph Jaworski, and Betty Sue Flowers explored
the nature of transformational change—how
it arises, and the fresh possibilities it offers
a world dangerously out of balance. The book
introduces the idea of "presence"—a
concept borrowed from the natural world that
the whole is entirely present in any of its
parts—to the worlds of business, education,
government, and leadership. Too often, the authors
found, we remain stuck in old patterns of seeing
and acting. By encouraging deeper levels of
learning, we create an awareness of the larger
whole, leading to actions that can help to shape
its evolution and our future."
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 SQ:
Connecting With Our Spiritual Intelligence
by Danah Zohar and Ian Marshall
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 The
Inner Game Of Work
by W. Timothy Gallwey
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"As a measure
of intelligence, IQ is well known and established.
In 1996 Daniel Goleman published Emotional Intelligence;
so now there is EQ, emotional quotient. Zohar,
an Oxford teacher and author, and Marshall,
a psychiatrist and author, now bring us SQ,
spiritual quotient. The authors contend that
while computers have IQ and animals can have
EQ, it is SQ that sets humans apart. SQ isn't
necessarily connected to religion, although
it can be. It is about wholeness, flexibility,
self-awareness, compassion, creativity, the
ability to ask why."
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Do you think it's
possible to truly enjoy your job? No matter
what it is or where you are? Timothy Gallwey
does, and in this groundbreaking book he tells
you how to overcome the inner obstacles that
sabotage your efforts to be your best on the
job. |
 The
Sedona Method: Your Key to Lasting Happiness,
Success, Peace, and Emotional Well-being by
Hale Dwoskin
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 Repacking
Your Bags by Richard J. Leider
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Filled with practical
techniques and enlightening true stories, Hale
clearly and generously explains everything we
need to know to master the releasing process
and to continue using the Method day by day,
moment by moment in real life situations, such
as having more fulfilling and harmonious relationships,
building financial security, developing satisfying
careers, breaking nasty habits, losing weight,
and enjoying good health. He reveals the Sedona
Method’s powerful secret for manifesting
what you want in your life, while showing you
how to be at ease and comfortable with what
you already have. The Method also enables you
how to have greater ease, enjoyment and peace
of mind with all that you experience on a daily
basis.
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Repacking Your
Bags helps people develop their own unique
vision of the good life and take practical
steps at home and at work to make that vision
a reality. Repacking is a travel guide
for success with fulfillment and a more authentically
meaningful life. It provides a simple yet
elegant process to help people ask the right
questions -- and get the right answers --
along the way. It describes a "trip plan" to
provides for the elements of the good life:
work, love, place, and purpose. As a result
of repacking, readers will be able to reach
for and achieve their vision of the good life.
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Calling the Circle: The First and Future
Culture
by Christina Baldwin
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 Ishmael:
An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
by Daniel Quinn
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"This newly
revised edition brings Christina Baldwin's groundbreaking
work to an even broader audience, ranging from
women's spirituality groups to corporate development
teams. 50,000 years ago, women and men gathered
around campfires to decide the key issues in
their lives. Today, groups everywhere are discovering
a new form of this ancient ritual for communication,
mutual support, teamwork, and social change."
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"The narrator
of this extraordinary tale is a man in search
for truth. He answers an ad in a local newspaper
from a teacher looking for serious pupils, only
to find himself alone in an abandoned office
with a full-grown gorilla who is nibbling delicately
on a slender branch. "You are the teacher?" he
asks incredulously. "I am the teacher," the
gorilla replies. Ishmael is a creature of immense
wisdom and he has a story to tell, one that
no other human being has ever heard. Like all
great teachers, Ishmael refuses to make the
lesson easy; he demands the final illumination
to come from within ourselves. Is it man's destiny
to rule the world? Or is it a higher destiny
possible for him -- one more wonderful than
he has ever imagined?"
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Falling Awake
by David B. Ellis
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Claiming Your Place at the Fire: Living the
Second Half of Your Life on Purpose
by Richard Leider, David Shapiro
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The
author of Falling Awake, Dave Ellis has
developed concepts and practical strategies
that have the power to shape the lives of individuals,
couples and communities. Falling Awake is
perfect for you if you really want to make the
most of your life and are open to a potentially
life-changing experience.
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"This new
edition has been revised and expanded to help
readers of all ages—from new college graduates
to recent retirees—develop a practical
strategy for achieving their own vision of the
good life, elegantly defined by the authors
as "living in the place I belong, with
the people I love, doing the right work, on
purpose." Leider and Shapiro use stories,
personal examples, and innovative exercises
to help readers evaluate the burdens they carry
and decide which help them live well and which
merely weigh them down."
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 The
Tao of Democracy: Using Co-Intelligence to Create
a World That Works for All
by Tom Atlee, Rosa Zubizarreta
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Leading With Soul: An Uncommon Journey
of Spirit
by Lee G. Bolman, Terrence E. Deal
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"The Tao
of Democracy describes a new vision of
politics and governance that can simultaneously
address our unprecedented social problems
and build a society that works for all. It
demonstrates how very different people can
now find creative common ground and shared
wisdom together. And it tells us how to use
that fact to bring our dusty old politics
up to speed, and find the wisdom we need to
safely navigate the 21st century."
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"This contemporary
parable chronicles the journey of a dispirited
leader in search of something more satisfying
than the bottom line. The authors draw upon
spiritual traditions, poetry and philosophy,
teachings on leadership and organizations, and
their own extensive consulting experience to
offer inspiration for today's embattled leaders."
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 Social
Intelligence: The New Science of Success
by Karl Albrecht
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 Leadership
and Self Deception: Getting Out of the Box
by The Arbinger Institute
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| "Social Intelligence provides
a highly accessible and comprehensive model for
describing, assessing, and developing social intelligence
at a personal level. This book is filled with
intriguing concepts, enlightening examples, stories,
cases, situational strategies, and a self-assessment
tool – all designed to help you learn to
navigate social situations more successfully." |
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In
this fictional tale an executive learns the great
secret of leadership effectiveness: to get out
of the self-deceptive box of narcissism and start
connecting in empathic and respectful ways with
others. We're in the box when we treat others
as objects or focus on what's wrong with them
instead of what we can do to help. Without discounting
the value of strong managerial direction, the
story reasserts something we know but don't practice--that
people are more likely to be enthusiastic and
effective when they know we care about them." |
 The
Anatomy of Peace: Resolving the Heart of Conflict
by The Arbinger Institute
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 Human Being: A Manual for
Happiness, Health, Love and Wealth by
Dave Ellis and Stan Lankowitz
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"Through an
intriguing story of parents struggling with
their troubled children and with their own personal
problems, The Anatomy of Peace shows
how to get past the preconceived ideas and self-justifying
reactions that keep us from seeing the world
clearly and dealing with it effectively. Yusuf
al-Falah, an Arab, and Avi Rozen, a Jew, each
lost his father at the hands of the other's
ethnic cousins. As the story unfolds, we discover
how they came together, how they help warring
parents and children to come together, and how
we too can find our way out of the struggles
that weigh us down. The choice between peace
and war lies within us."
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"Human Being" is
no longer in print but is distributed in an
Adobe Acrobat PDF format. |
Recommended Marketing
and Business Development Books |
Get Clients Now!
by C. J. Hayden, Joe Vitale
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 The
Portable Coach: 28 Surefire Strategies for Business
and Personal Success
by Thomas J. Leonard, Byron Laursen
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A 28-Day Marketing Program
for Professionals and Consultants. Contained
within the covers of this deceptively simple
paperback book is a complete marketing and sales
system for professionals, consultants, and anyone
who needs to market a service business. It is
packed with tremendous client-attracting tools
that will help readers inject their marketing
efforts with energy and enthusiasm, design an
effective plan of action, and dramatically increase
their client base in just 28 days.
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Want to be more successful, happier, wealthier?
In his lively The Portable Coach, Thomas J.
Leonard presents 28 principles to help you shape
your life, career, and relationships so that
they are satisfying and profitable, with 10
ways to accomplish each principle, and additional
tips and self-tests.
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