From the course: Executive Coaching
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Crucial early impressions: Credibility
From the course: Executive Coaching
Crucial early impressions: Credibility
- It's crucial to make a strong early impression on your leader about your credibility. Are you an excellent coach? Leaders are in the business of inspiring confidence in others. In this case, they're looking for you to inspire confidence in them. Leaders want more than a summary of your coaching history and credentials. You wanna showcase you at your best as a coach, in a genuine, vivid way. You'll need to be prepared to do three important things. One, project genuine confidence. Two, offer client success stories. And three, share quotes from clients. Let's take a look at all three points in more detail. First, project genuine confidence. Notice the key word: genuine. Be yourself, don't sell yourself, that's off-putting and makes you seem insecure. You're already connected with the leader in a positive, meaningful way, so act like it. Before you even meet the leader, you're already committed to help them grow, because that's who you are in professional life and that's what you do…
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