The struggle is real! Research shows that 75% of business teams fail. Why do we find team building so difficult? In today’s show, we explore the psychology of teams, how to build effective teams, and how to work with teams. Join us to learn more!

James Scouller is an executive coach and celebrated author who has focused on team building during his 45-year career. After leading three international companies as CEO for over 11 years, he founded The Scouller Partnership in 2004, which is an executive coaching practice near London focused on growing leaders and building teams. James holds two postgraduate coaching qualifications and has undergone 4 years of deep training in applied psychology. He has written 4 books, including the trilogy, How to Build Winning Teams Again and Again. It’s the first series of handbooks to explain the psychology, action principles, and roadmaps behind team success. Book #1 explains what you need to KNOW about teams and their psychology, Book #2 outlines what to DO to build teams that last, and Book #3 explains HOW to apply Book #2’s models and tools in different scenarios. 

Show Highlights:

• An overview of James’ book trilogy
• James’ working experience and fascination with teams and business success
• Understanding James’ Team Progression Model
• A real team vs. a performance group
• Which one do you need, a team or a performance group?
• Understanding the characteristics of a pseudo-team
• Figuring out the #1 goal of the team is the first step in team building.
• Commit, Combust, and Combine–steps to understand the psychological model 
• James’ final words to coaches about team building

Resources:

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The different phases of life are filled with transitions, and the transition to retirement means facing many unknowns. We may financially prepare for retirement for many, many years, but facing its reality challenges our mental and emotional health. Whether you are thinking of retirement on an individual level or as a service provider to those preparing for retirement, today’s show is packed with helpful information. Join us to learn more!

Suzanne Campi is a life transition coach and community builder who works with women in retirement. She helps women learn to live large after retirement, understanding that preparing for this transition is much more than saving money. “Retirement is an inside job” defines her holistic approach to bringing together women who are shaping their retirement to embrace freedom, create meaningful connections, and design more vibrance in the next stage of life. 

Show Highlights:

• Life transitions come in all forms throughout our life span.
• Finding joy in retirement goes far beyond saving a lot of money.
• Retirement: a time for recharging, reinventing, and redefining your purpose
• Suzanne’s advice to those coming from the corporate world into coaching in “retirement”: “Step back and honor yourself. Consider taking a gap year.”
• Assumptions about retirement
• Don’t forget to have FUN!
• Taking a holistic look at retirement with the “wheel model”
• The key to any change is making small, steady habits.
• Learning to “dial down the busy”
• Important considerations in life transitions around new beginnings and endings

Resources:

Connect with Suzanne Campi: Website, LinkedIn, and Facebook

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When should you consider the path from PCC to MCC? In this episode, you’ll learn the ICF designations for MCC and PCC, along with the different levels of coaching certifications. Fran Fisher joins us to discuss this topic, which is the sweet spot of her expertise. Explore this topic with us today!

Fran Fisher, MCC, is recognized as a pioneer in the coaching industry. She’s a published author, international speaker, and founding ICF executive board member who helped develop the credentialing program for aspiring coaches and training schools. She specializes in mentoring experienced coaches for their MCC accreditation, and she offers advanced certification mentor training. Fran founded one of the first coach training schools to be accredited by the ICF, and she’s an executive ICF board member as chair of the credentialing development committee, serving as an ICF credentialing assessor since 1998. In 2022, Fran received the ICF Circle of Distinction Award. 

Show Highlights:

• Requirements to go from PCC to MCC (It goes far beyond more coaching hours!)
• Understanding an MCC as “the space of the client’s greatness”
• Coaching as a partnership of two experts
• The shift from a habitual pattern mindset to a soulful-based mindset
• Offering choice and inviting the client to lead with a higher order of empowerment
• Unlearning and taking a new, masterful approach
• Fran’s experience in interviewing potential mentees to determine their motivation 
• Habits that need to be changed in asking questions of our coaching clients
• Using your coach’s intuition correctly
• The beauty of “inviting awareness”
• Highlights of ICF resources

Resources:

Connect with Fran Fisher: Website 

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I’m diving into one of the most asked questions I receive as a coach mentor and coach instructor: “What’s the optimal way to price my services?” Coming from the corporate world, as many coaches do, there are many questions about how to charge for coaching services, so this episode is the ultimate guide on this topic. We will cover different pricing models, a pricing structure, best pricing practices, and common pricing pitfalls. Join us!

Show Highlights:

• Understanding different pricing models: hourly dollars pricing, package pricing, and value-based percentage basis pricing
• Know what the market will bear.
• Your experience will influence what you charge.
• Take a business owner mindset and consider your business costs.
• Consider your market positioning, target market, experience/credentials/services, and business costs.
• Best practices: establish your clear value proposition, test different pricing tiers, clearly communicate your pricing, allow room for growth, and maintain flexibility
• Common pricing pitfalls: underpricing, overcomplicating your pricing structure, failing to review/adjust, and inconsistent pricing

Resources:

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Let’s talk about organization! How organized are you, digitally speaking? As coaches, it’s often the “office” part of our role that can feel overwhelming or get routinely pushed to the back burner. Are your digital spaces in chaos? How would it change your business to bring more organization and structure into that realm? Join us to learn more from my expert guest!

Jésabel DC is a digital organization coach who helps entrepreneurs and creatives turn their chaotic digital spaces (think inbox, calendar, files, etc.) into organized, playful spaces where they actually want to spend their time. She created The Lifestyle Lab to help people reduce digital anxiety through 1:1 organization sessions, workshops, and classes. Jésabel will join the STaR Coach Community in February to do a deeper dive on this topic for our members. Haven’t joined our community yet? Click here for more information!

Show Highlights:

• Understanding digital nesting and Jésabel’s low-tech approach
• Streamline your energy leaks to align your digital spaces to your overall vision
• Evaluating your digital space–learn how Jésabel works with clients
• Implementing flexible time management techniques
• Setting up your time task ecosystem and using buffers correctly for top performance
• Don’t forget to refuel yourself!
• Setting parameters around your calendar: Experiment with what works best for you!
• The importance of visual cues
• Considerations in designing your digital spaces
• Examples of a “digital mess” (Does this describe you?)
• Organization leads to more growth!
• An overview of Jésabel’s Lifestyle Lab: workshops, classes, resources, and more

Resources:

Connect with Jésabel DC

Website

 Instagram

Jésabel invites you to explore her offerings: 1:1 Sessions, Inbox Class, Free Inbox Workshop, and Calendar Class

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Can you believe this is our final episode of 2024? At this time of saying goodbye to one year and opening the possibilities of a new one, it’s the perfect time to focus on change. Change is an inevitable and unpredictable part of life. Change is a process that requires us, as coaches, to look at the impact of change on ourselves and help our clients navigate change through the lens of growth, opportunity, and possibility. Join me for more about the bittersweet nature of change.

Show Highlights:

• A look at the highlights of 2024
• Make a mindset shift in your thinking about change (What’s the opposite of change? Would you want that?)
• Change creates discomfort, angst, and confusion—and that’s normal.
• In our work with clients, change is about balance and possibilities.
• The biggest challenge in navigating change is letting go of the familiar.
• Change requires adaptability.
• Are there changes ahead of you? Face them with clear, realistic goals; identify the support/resources you need; and approach change with confidence and resilience.

Resources:

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Hearing about the journeys other successful coaches have taken is inspiring, and it shows us that varied paths and backgrounds can catapult us to where we want to be as coaches. Going through ups, downs, failures, and successes is part of everyone’s journey, and just because something goes wrong doesn’t mean we are lacking. Join us for this value-packed discussion with today’s guest!

Megan Huber is a powerhouse in the coaching industry, known for helping coaches and online educators scale their businesses to six and seven figures without relying on paid advertising or complicated funnels. She is known for her simplicity in supporting women entrepreneurs who seek balance between growing their businesses and living a fulfilling life. As the host of the Built to Last podcast, Megan helps listeners learn how to create lasting success through actionable strategies, mindset shifts, and proven business-building tactics. In today’s episode, she shares her journey and insights to creating–and rebuilding–her successful business. 

Show Highlights:

• Megan’s motivation to plunge into entrepreneurship via the path of educator-turned-coach
• Finding a niche through networking and an unlikely apprenticeship
• Megan’s decision to spread her wings and fly
• Developing her coaching program and funneling clients through her Facebook group
• Giving expertise and value by inviting people in as clients
• Megan’s key message: “Have a singularity of focus on your ideal client and your ability to solve their biggest problem. Every piece of content you create should target that specific focus.” 

Resources:

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Structured Freedom Inc. Facebook Group

Built to Last podcast

Today’s guest is an expert in speech and communication training, and we are diving into the importance of our communication in building confidence and getting our work into the world. What an important concept for every coach to understand! Communication is everything in our effectiveness with clients and our success in putting our message out. Join us to learn practical tips for upgrading your communication!

Bailey Massey is the owner and founder of Bailey Massey Global, located in Denver, CO. She uses her expertise and master’s degree in communication to help people understand the profound influence of our voices and the ways we communicate. Bailey customizes training and coaching needs for organizations and professionals to successfully support them in meeting their goals related to speech and communication clarity, accent and dialect coaching, vocal projection, public speaking, presentation skills, non-verbal communication, internal communication, trust and relationship building, leadership and development, executive communication, cross-cultural communication, and client relationships. In this conversation, she helps us learn how we can tailor what we do and say to show up with clarity in our communication. 

Show Highlights:

• ALL communication starts with breathing.
• Internal and external components of breathing
• Practical tips for better communication
• The importance of a pause and an “I don’t know” answer
• A fresh perspective on “being nervous”
• Active listening, intentional preparation, and nonverbal messages
• The eye-opening statistics: 7% of your message comes from your words, 38% from your tone, and 55% from your body language.
• What makes authentic communication
• Changing your voice in the moment: start with a simple exhale to release tension
• Reframing imposter syndrome 
• Why people might hire a communications coach
• Bailey’s key takeaways about effective  and confident communication

Resources:

Connect with Bailey Massey

Website and LinkedIn

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In the face of life’s many ups and downs, how can we leverage gratitude, intention, and choice to face challenges and set our path forward? The reality is that despair and overwhelm can happen because so much of life is completely out of our control. How can we respond with empowering decisions instead of getting caught in the swirl of overwhelm and despair? The answer lies in adopting a mindset shift to embrace an attitude of gratitude, and this is a timely discussion for this week as we celebrate Thanksgiving here in the US. Join me for a closer look at today’s topic!

Show Highlights:

• A shift in life can shake us to the core
• Learning to hold the power of choice and agency when challenges occur
• The high costs to us (and others around us) when we allow despair and hopelessness to take root
• Reclaiming our power through choice and gratitude
• Make a perspective shift by embracing gratitude
• Choose to be informed in decision-making
• Nurture relationships and meaningful connections in your life
• Embrace possibilities and challenge the norms
• Establish appropriate boundaries and be assertive about them

Resources:

Mentioned in this episode: The Leadership Challenge by James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner

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Today’s episode is an experiment. We are having a joint collaborative conversation with a fabulous coach in Canada. We are interviewing each other for our podcasts, but we are doing it simultaneously. Join us as we explore the barriers that coaches hit, our passion for coaching, and details about the coaching partnership. Join us!

Candy Motzek is a coach, business mentor, and podcast host who is passionate about helping coaches launch successful businesses. Candy hosts the She Coaches Coaches podcast and has a unique background as a former senior leader in the corporate world. She brings a wealth of knowledge and actionable insight and her specialty is in empowering intelligent professionals to launch and grow successful coaching businesses. She uses this unique blend of practical strategies and mindset mastery to help clients achieve greater clarity. Her calming and personalized approach enables coaches to play bigger, find more clients, and create meaningful and profitable success. 

Show Highlights:

• What Meg and Candy love about coaching
• Pinpointing the vision and determining the destination
• “Do you KNOW what you want?”
• Helping the client understand the coaching lens
• Knowing when and how to ask deeper questions
• Finding a balance between “telling” vs. “coaching” and “offering without attachment”
• The level of trust in yourself and your coaching skills
• Conversations of all kinds are enhanced when they begin with curiosity.
• Getting better at asking before you move into telling
• Final takeaways from Meg about being a great coach AND a great marketer
• Final takeaways from Candy about the significant overlap between coaching and marketing

Resources:

Connect with Meg

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Work with Candy, Free Resources for Coaches, Instagram, LinkedIn, and She Coaches Coaches podcast

My guest is someone I’m happy for all our listeners to meet. Her amazing background and experience have uniquely positioned her to understand the role of an executive assistant. She’s here to share what she’s learned and what you should consider in bringing someone into your business to help you succeed. It’s ridiculous to think you can do IT ALL in your business! It’s okay to bring in someone to do their expert work to help propel you to further success. Today’s episode gives you tips and insights to take that next step. 

Monique Helstrom worked as the “How” to Simon Sinek’s “Why” for almost a decade as she filled the role of executive assistant, producer, and “Chief of Simon” for the NY Times best-selling author and TED celebrity. She produced everything he did to inspire and scale his movement, including launching three best-selling books, developing his world-famous speaking career, and coordinating his media appearances. During this whirlwind, she had the opportunity to meet many thousands of people facing quite similar issues who asked themselves, “What do I bring to the table, and how can I use those skills to amplify a partnership, team, or organization?”

As an expert in the relationship between an executive and their assistant, Monique bridges the skill and personality gap with personalized coaching, specialized recruiting, practical strategies, and actionable insights tailored to both sides of the partnership. Her experience gave rise to a practical and honest approach to individual excellence, team collaboration, and how communication is at the center of it all. 

Show Highlights:

• The “should-ing” we do to ourselves–and how it trips us up
• Using self-awareness to identify what we are good at helps us know where we need help.
• Knowing yourself helps you know who else you need around you.
• Learn to communicate your needs in specific ways. (People can’t read your mind!)
• Effective communication requires talking with each other (not texting and emailing!) so that tone and non-verbals are understood.
• Feedback is NOT inherently negative and dangerous, but it’s helpful.
• Honesty and vulnerability are key in effective communication.
• Appreciate the unique differences in people.
• The benefits of assessments to help us understand ourselves and each other
• Key takeaways from Monique

Resources:

Connect with Monique Helstrom: Website, Facebook, and LinkedIn

Mentioned in this episode: Surrounded by Idiots by Thomas Erikson

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