Life Coaching Resources And Free Coaching Processes

You may feel your coach training has given you everything you need to start coaching and building your practice. 

However, as you begin the coaching journey, you may discover gaps that you need to fill in to increase your professional toolbox and scale your business.

The life coaching resources I recommend have been carefully checked (and often used) and chosen to provide value to the growth of your coaching practice. 

Take some time to explore and please contact me if you have any questions.

 Free Life Coaching Resources For You

Protect your life coaching with the right legal agreements

In these days of litigation, it's really important to have in place firm agreements, disclaimers and refund policies for your coaching.  

Also to ensure, as far as possible, protection against plagiarism from your coaching information content, such as what is on your website and any webinars or online courses you offer.

You can read more about what you need to consider to protect your life coaching business in Life Coaching Agreements.

Broken link checker for your website

Take advantage of this FREE website  broken link checker to make sure all your links are working and up to date. Why? If a prospective client clicks on a link on your website and finds it doesn’t work or goes to the wrong place you’ve most likely lost them.

It can be I really important  to not only check that the links on your own website or FB pages are still working as they should, but on any links that have been posted by other people on your site.  I've found this to be one of my most valuable life coaching resources to keep my website honest.

When doing my monthly broken link check recently, I discovered three contributions posted by other people on my website were no longer working. So make it a habit to regularly use this Free link checker https://www.brokenlinkcheck.com.

Using AI to support you in creating focussed content

AI can be appealing as a time-saving way of helping you create website content, especially if writing is something you find challenging. The emphasis here, though, is on “support” rather than “doing it for you.”

I’ve found AI great for giving me ideas for headings and prompting me to fill in information gaps I may have missed.

However, you need to edit and add to what AI comes up with to reflect your own voice, tell your stories, add pictures, and include some of your own original material.

This is because Google and other search engines is clever enough to recognize entirely AI-created content, which can be literally robotic and bland, and may downgrade the page in the search rankings.

Another thing I found you need to be aware of is that you should check any recommended websites AI comes up with in a created article.

For instance, when I was trialing AI to write about Life Coaching Jobs, it came up with some good ideas, but many of the job search sites it recommended were completely irrelevant. Remember, AI draws on what has already been written but is not clever enough to make every distinction.

Generative AI services such as ChatGPT and Claude both offer free and paid options, so it’s easy to give them a trial.

My website platform and trusted partner Solo Build It! recently introduced a fabulous guide for its subscribers to help you get the best out of AI for your website by creating niche-focused content.
Check out this free for everyone information on how it works

My free Life Coaching Accelerators

As a new subscriber to my regular Life Coaching Accelerators, you get to download free "10 Easy Ways to Jumpstart Your Coaching Practice".

You’ll get to learn coaching skills and strategies that have developed from my 25+ years as a life coach on personal, career and business related issues as well as ways to authentically grow your practice. 

Of course you can unsubscribe as soon as you get your gift, but I’d encourage you to stick around because I provide more regular insights and tips about coaching that life coaching schools may not cover as well as special offers.

Trusted Life Coaching Professionally Partners

Over the years I've found some great resource partners for Life Coaching Professionally. Before partnering with them I've made sure that what they are offering is authentic and well established so I can honestly recommend them as being of benefit. Check them out and see if they can work for you. 

Paperbell coaching software

More and more coaches are using coaching software to help with their coaching admin. And there are so many on offer that it can be quite difficult to work out which one is the best investment. If you are at a point where you are considering software, here you can work out what you need/want and don't need when investing in a coaching software 

One I checked out and can recommend is Paperbell, which also has the credibility of being a partner of the ICF (International Coach Federation). Paperbell provides a huge list of functions and benefits, including a website template and really great guidance and ongoing support to grow your coaching business. It is also reasonably priced.

I particularly like that they offers a month’s free trial with lots of help - without the hassle of giving a credit card. So you've nothing to loose by signing up for the month's free account to explore and trial. Just that process will also help you get more clarity on what is a good fit for you.

 Coaching Tools to help with every aspect of your coaching

 Efficient way to get paid for your coaching

There are so many ways to get paid - direct debit, Paypal, Stripe and so on.

But if you are aiming to have an international client base you want to find a payment system that is easy, efficient and importantly doesn't cost you a fortune in exchange and/or bank fees.

I found that Wise (previously Transferwise) was the one for me, both for clients and my products. The reason was  because wherever you are in the world you can set up a bank account in your preferred payment currency at a significantly cheaper rate than say Paypal.

You can read a lot more about how Wise works and avoiding hidden international payment expenses.

Resources To Grow Your Online Visibility

These days, most coaches recognise the need to have an online presence through a website that fulfils its purpose of attracting clients from any location.

I recommend these specific website-creation resources for life coaches because they are supportive, practically, useful and reliable. Please be careful you are not taken in by website offers that offer free, very cheap and/or an almost instant creation process. They may be presented and very well but don’t provide what you need to help you manage your website and attract new clients  (without a lot of extra investment in plug ins).

Solo Build It -  An online business building system

As a life coach in the 21st century you are more than likely going to want to create a website to showcase who you are, how you coach and all your great client testimonials.

This is especially true if you are planning to coach nationally or internationally online, rather than just locally. I chose Solo Build It! to create this site, Life Coaching Professionally and my previous personal coaching site because it met all my needs and had a very reasonable annual fee. 

It has a unique step-by-step Action Guide for building a business online, design templates, safe and secure hosting, SEO (search engine optimising) brainstorming function to find the best keywords, easy editing of all functions and a community forum where you can get advice about your site from SBI's website experts and other users.

Solo Built It costs $329.99USD annually for everything and you can even trial the system for free so you can check it out to see if it is going to be what you need. It now also includes a powerful AI support system to help you to write effective and focussed content for your visitors.

If you want everything you need in an online business building website in an all-in-one-package without spending a fortune, I suggest you include Solo Build It! in your research.

Do you already have a Wordpress site?

If you already own a Wordpress site, you could consider investing in Solo Build It! for Wordpress.  This provides some of the most important features of SBI! including the Action Guide business building education package; the unique keyword brainstorming tool and the fabulous free support.

So again, before you choose a website provider, do take into consideration real cost and usability of what they offer and include SBI! in your research. 

The Coaching Website Guide

Reading this book, I was really impressed by the way its author Kenn Schroder has covered every aspect of creating a coaching website that will engage and attract clients from content to navigation and SEO (search engine optimisation)  in an easy to understand writing style.  

The book is in PDF form and has links to the various chapters so it is easy to dip in and out of and find whatever website related content you are looking for including how to write an engaging "about" page. 

At $129, The Coaching Website Guide may seem like a big investment but in reality, it could save you a vast amount of time and  a fortune in time and costly website mistakes. Check it out - you can review the first chapter for free and Ken often has special offers!

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More recommended books to help your coaching

If it's more books you are after to enhance your coaching and grow your business, check out my Recommended Coaching Books page.

I've read and used the information in all these books over the years and can thoroughly recommend them as useful additions to your coaching bookshelf. These and many more good books on life coaching are all available on Amazon. 

Do check them out - they are full of useful information, hints and checklists geared to your success.

 Six Of My Tried And Tested Life Coaching Processes

Especially when you are new to coaching you'll find yourself hunting around for life coaching materials that may go beyond the scope of your training. 

I'm delighted to freely share with you six of life coaching tools and techniques that I have found so useful in helping my clients. 

Take some time to become familiar with these processes and do contact me if you have any questions.

1. The Wheel Of Life

A really valuable free life coaching process from The Coaching Tools Company is The Wheel of Life.

You can use it with your clients to assess coaching priorities but it is much more than just an assessment tool.

It helps clients become more self-aware AND more motivated to set authentic goals and make changes towards creating their best life. 

The life wheel technique gives clients a helicopter view of how satisfied they are with their life in key predefined life categories such as health, finances and relationships.

2. The BE DO HAVE model simplified

Be Do Have is an interesting and vital tool for any goal planning and coaching success.

 It will help your clients discover how they will need to operate and behave (BE) in order to DO what is needed to achieve their goals and/or HAVE life as they want it.  It will help reveal behiours that may not have been serving them. 

The process is often a confusing and misunderstood life coaching modeI so I simply explain BE DO HAVE and how to help your clients (and yourself) apply the model to their own goals and outcomes with some useful examples.

3. Life coaching intake questions for a great start

Once you have enrolled a client and organised the first session, using these 18 revealing life coaching questions as part of your intake process will give you (and your clients) valuable insight and a powerful beginning to the coaching journey.

The feedback I've had from clients is that answering these questions was really valuable in helping them get clarity on where they are and where they want to go with coaching and compliments what may have discussed with you during their Discovery Session.Preview my eBook on how to turn prospects into committed paying clients in Discovery Session? 

4.  Teach Your Clients the art of saying NO! (nicely) 

Often at the root of a client's challenges is they lack the skill to set boundaries. 

They end up saying "yes" to doing stuff they really don't want to do, don't really have the time to do and, therefore, don't get around to what they need or want to do for themselves. 

Coach your clients how to say NO elegantly to things they don't want to do or get involved in, without causing offence or burning their bridges,is a really useful coaching tool.

5. Help your clients provide feedback

At the end of a coaching series, it's important to make sure the client is complete with you and the coaching.

These coaching evaluation questions enable your clients to provide feedback about how your coaching has worked for them and any improvements you could make. It's also a great way to note the nice things they may have to say about you. 

The question and answer format helps them identify their wins and what they have gained from coaching so they can give you a great testimonial! I share more about easily getting testimonials here.

6. How To Fire A Client

Sometimes, in spite of all good research and intention, the client turns out to be a uncoachable, at least by you.

• You may want out because they are draining your energy and confidence.
• Or they need more help than you can, or are willing, to give them and you want refer them on to another coach or a therapist. 

The information and tips in this article, How Elegantly To Fire A Client can be a life saver when the coaching is not working out. It examines why you might want to let a client go and how to do it elegantly and without drama.