Thinking about a Mentor Coach? Think GottaGettaCoach!

"Yes, it's time for Mentor Coaching, and YES, you're ready."

Hi there ~ Barry Zweibel, here, MCC, ICF-Certified Master Coach;  CPCC, certified professional co-active (coactive) coach; coach mentor; member of the International Coach Federation (ICF); and a founding member of CoachVille, 247 Coaching, and the International Association of Coaching (IAC) - the IAC now has more than 12,500 members - I was the 12^th.

Want a coaching mentor to help you pick a coaching school?
We oughta talk.

Want a mentor coach to help you hone your coaching skills?
We REALLY oughta talk.

Want that ideal coaching practice to become more of a reality?
We really OUGHTA talk!

Barry Zweibel, MCC, CPCC
President, GottaGettaCoach!, Incorporated

You'll find I have a clean energy that's both engaging and entertaining. That's helpful in a coach mentoring relationship. You'll also find it real easy to connect with me on a fun, intellectually stimulating and emotionally-dynamic level - also important should I be your coach.

My formal coach training came from the prestigious Coaches Training Institute - I received the certified professional co-active (coactive) coach, or CPCC, designation in 2001. The CTI credentialing program was both rigorous and accredited by the International Coach Federation. It included more than 175 hours of classroom learning, 100+ hours of logged coaching time, literally dozens of instructional teleclass learning labs, nine separate Supervision Calls where my coaching sessions were recorded (with client permission) and then critiqued by a master certified coach, and a formal certification testing process, including a six hour written exam and two live coaching demonstrations. (If you're considering what coaching school to enroll in, be sure to read: On Choosing a Coaching School.)

I was appointed as Chairman of the Early Years Learning Track by the conference chair Beth Burns and the ICF for their 2002 Annual Conference where it was my responsibility to create a program of breakout sessions that would be most beneficial for mentoring new coaches. With assistant chair, Lisa Kemp, ACC, our speakers included Dave Buck, President, Coachville; Michael Charest, Founder, Coach and Grow Rich^TM; Lorraine White, MCC; David Rock, CEO, Results Life Coaching in Australia; Dorcas Kelly, author, The Business of Coaching and certified professional co-active (coactive) coach; Gretchen Sunderland, an award-winning salesperson and sales coach; Karyn Greenstreet, small business and technology coach; and Jackie Huba, marketing guru and co-author of Creating Customer Evangelists. Our program was a very co-active and rousing success for every ICF coach who attended - it was the buzz of the conference!

On a related note, in 2003, I was retained by the Chicago chapter of the ICF to be coach and facilitator for their board of directors. Additionally, I also worked with Thomas Leonard (who is widely regarded as the 'father of modern-day coaching') as an active participant of his CoachVille "Research and Development" Team.

I've since earned the Master Certified Coach (MCC) credential from the International Coach Federation. (In addition to all of the above, that also required having logged a total 2,500 hours of coaching time (no less than 90% of it being for compensation), 200 hours of coach-specific training, obtaining a series of Letters of Recommendation from both coaching clients and certified coaches who've heard me coach and can attest to my coaching competencies, and an extensive application and review process by the independent ICF Technical Review and Application Review Boards.)

More about Barry Zweibel and his biography.

But why do coaches like to work with me? Because I help them become more competent in their craft AND more successful in building their practices. Together we role-play, discuss, as the ICF calls it, the "Art, Science, and Practice, of Professional Coaching," laugh a whole lot, and coach our brains out! Who says mentoring has to be difficult and boring?! Here's what some of them have said:

What you do today to build your business
will pay off 90 days from now.

What you fail to do today to build your business
will also pay off 90 days from now.

 So which payoff are you working on, exactly?!*

*thank you, Bill Thomas

Important Note: Even before I became an MCC, I  believed that in order for the coaching profession to really develop, we coaches have to do more than just coach other coaches. That's why I only mentor a maximum of only two or three coaches at a time. So, to help coaches that I don't coach bridge the gap between being a capable coach and a successful one, I offer Biz-D Basics for Life Coaches.

Biz-D Basics is a blog-like weekly subscription series that's specifically designed for those of you looking for that something extra to help you build and sustain your coaching practice into something truly viable. If you're tired of the "struggle and suffer" of trying to the Business Development (Biz-D) side of being a coach, link to: www.biz-d-basics.com.

Also for coaches:

consider THIS! Daily Realizations for New and Aspiring Personal Life Coaches

Not a how-to manual. Rather, it's a "What To" - as in what meditations to keep top-o-mind when building your practice into a vibrant and sustainable business. These Daily Realizations worked for me and they may just work for you, too.

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