No successful path is unobstructed. If I were asked, “What would I do differently in my career?”, my first answer would be, “nothing”. Often the very problems along the way created the opportunity and inspiration for breakthroughs, brand growth, and financial reward. Not to mention the potential butterfly effect of altering the space time continuum and some Ashton Kutcher style hemorrhaging through my face. But as a …
Andrew Coates
How In-Person Trainers Successfully Adapt to Online Coaching
Experienced in-person coaches are often victims of our own success. Entrenched thinking and behavior which served our success in-person leaves us struggling to adapt to technology-driven changes and opportunities in our industry. We’re often slow or unable to move at all into online coaching. We believe we can’t replicate the in-person experience and aren’t willing to compromise on our process. We’ve worked this way …
The World Has Changed and So Have the Rules for New Online Coaches
“You can’t train online unless you’ve coached in person for four years.” Maybe you’ve heard or read trainers make this or similarly arbitrary proclamations. These statements only serve to gain echo chamber applause. As a newer trainer, did this ever help you? For the sake of this discussion, let’s define “newer” trainer as anyone in the earlier stages of their career who is developing basic coaching, movement, …