Presentations
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ADHD Coaching: A proven process that can be replicated
Where is the proof that ADHD Coaching makes an impact on people’s lives? Joyce Kubik, will describe her coaching style and the program she developed and used in the first study done on the effectiveness of coaching adults with ADHD. Learn how you can replicate this program and become part of a national study on the effectiveness of ADHD Coaching.
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ADHD Marketing Secrets: Sprinting to Success
Are you getting burned out on your marketing efforts? Are you ready to soar as a coach, but unsure how to get the clients? Then, you may be approaching your marketing as a marathon. Have a seat, grab a Gatorade, and shift your focus to sprints of marketing. In this session we will explore your role at the CMO (Chief Marketing Officer) of your business, clarify the holes in your marketing efforts, and create a 3 sprint plan for attracting clients, as well as a multiple referrals waterfall. A full practice is just a few sprints away- come ready with your best running shoes!
Be thriving not surviving in 2013! Seven steps to build your business and increase your client base now
Will you be coaching in five years? As small business owners, ADHD coaches need to know how to successfully and continually build their client base in order to thrive. Unfortunately, more then half of all coaching businesses will not survive even five years. One of the main reasons for this is the difficulty many coaches have in enrolling new clients. Using the advertising, “rule of seven”, which states that it takes five to seven times for a potential client to see or hear your name before hiring you, this session will guide participants through a seven step process towards increasing their client base. Come to this session and learn about seven successful steps towards building a thriving coaching business. Explore strategies to enroll new clients after only your first session together! Leave with tools to successfully increase your client base and ensure your business will be alive and thriving in 2013!
The Bones of Business
Coaches come to the profession to help people. You probably didn’t come to learn strategic planning or book keeping. But if you don’t plan, if you don’t pay attention to your money, your time and your talents, coaching can seem like a get-poor-quick scheme. This session will help you identify the hidden basics of business, what you need, what you don’t and when to get rid of what you have. Kerch McConlogue has nearly 30 years experience in small business; coaching is her third.
Facilitation Connections Through Processing Styles Identification
Do you get frustrated because you can’t absorb and anchor information? Learn about the seven primary processing styles, and how to identify them in yourself and your clients; take the VOCKATIV Processing Styles Inventory©, learn how to administer and interpret it; and learn how to utilize results to design work, study and home environments to facilitate success in your life and the lives of your clients, including how to align language choices with your listener’s dominant processing styles to make communication more effective and meaningful.
Getting out of Stuck: simple, practical, easy tools to help your clients move forward in their daily lives.
Getting out of Stuck: Simple, Practical, Easy Tools to Help your clients move forward in their daily lives.
This workshop will equip you with scores of tools and inspiring processes to take back to your clients. Tools that will help you help them to self-motivate between sessions. An abundance of handouts will be available for you to use with your clients and in your own life.
How to Overcome Resistance to Change in your Clients and in Yourself
- Have you ever had a client who came to you begging you to help him change, who then acted like he doesn’t want to change at all?
- Have you felt about a client: “She knows what to do now, so why doesn’t she do it?”
- Have YOU ever felt bad about yourself because you want to behave a certain way and just don’t?
In this presentation, participants will see that resistance is truly the key to real change. Participants will learn to use Mind Pictures as a coaching tool to facilitate change.
Internet Marketing 2.0 for ADHD Coaches
The internet has changed and so has internet marketing! It’s very important for ADHD Coaches to understand about these changes and how it affects their marketing efforts. The new internet is termed web 2.0 and there many exciting new internet marketing tools for ADHD Coaches now. These powerful tools will help ADHD Coaches connect with significant amounts of people in new and different ways than ever before.
The Ladder to Success: Leveraging an ADHD-Trained Virtual Assistant to Support Your Coaching Business
Suzanne Evans , Vickie Turley , and Barbara Luther
How do you envision your business support? Do you see a long ladder with many support rungs each stronger than the next lifting you up to the highest purpose and passion of your business? We do. The key to building a sustainable and successful ADHD coaching business is all in the support structure. An ADHD-trained Virtual Assistant (VA) is the key to that structure. In this 90 minute presentation, be prepared to start working at your highest level, delegating all that you do not enjoy, and finding a rhythm in your business success. We will share tips and insights on securing VAs, working as a team, and the partnership that a ADHD-trained VA can offer you. You will leave this session with a VA Blueprint that is clear in how you can move your business forward with the help of a VA.
Leveraging Sweet Wisdom: Helping Clients Learn About Their ADHD via Comic Strips
Wisdom can appear in unlikely places. MCC Barbara Luther finds wonderfully sweet wisdom in the daily comics for her clients. In this session, Barbara shares comic strips she’s found that have shifted her client’s attitudes and approaches to their ADHD traits. We’ll discuss how we might use comics within coaching conversations and how the strips can become images and metaphors the clients use for powerful personal change. Join Barbara for laughter and fun new tools.
Living with ADHD: "A" is for Anxiety
Up to half of all people with ADHD suffer from clinically significant anxiety. Most of us don’t even recognize our symptoms are the result of anxiety or if we do, we don’t recognize it as abnormal. Anxiety is highly treatable, so it is important that ADHD coaches understand and recognize this commonly co-occurring condition. Come learn about the interplay between ADHD and anxiety, why anxiety so often goes unrecognized, and what coaches can do about it.
Mastering AD/HD Coaching Challenges
Pre-Conference Half Day Session
Nancy Ratey , Jodi Sleeper-Triplett and Sandy Maynard
More often than not coaching workshops cover the basics but never get around to discussing the real meat of the matter. This interactive, hands-on workshop gets to the guts of the coaching process by leading participants through a step-by-step analysis looking through the lens of real coaching case studies. This workshop will take participants beyond the discussion phase of effective coaching into the interactive phase that excites the mind and sharpens skills. Coaches will have an opportunity to collaborate with colleagues, which is a rare and welcome opportunity in a field where many professionals work alone.
The Power of the Pause
David Giwerc, MCC, Founder/President of the ADD Coach Academy, will present a set of coaching skills that will empower your clients to pause and dramatically improve the quality of their life. You will learn
- How your client can incorporate more pausing in their lives by paying attention to the signals in their body and
- How to develop a customized system that will increase the frequency of your client’s daily pausing and remind them of their power to watch and withhold an immediate reaction.
The Super Powers of Chronically Disorganized People-Advice for Coaches. (Keynote)
Got a disorganized client with ADD? Are you committed to improving their level of organizing success? Gain from the 18-year experience of one of the nation’s foremost authorities on organization and disorganization. Judith Kolberg can teach you what a coach can do to assess the organizing needs of your client, what to do if your client’s disorganization is chronic, and the special support only coaches can bring to the experience of a disorganized person with ADD.
Tibetan Bowls to positively affect the effects of ADHD
Take your coaching of ADHD Clients to a new revolutionary level. Find out how the Tibetan Bowls, parts and the subtle energy field can assist you in knowing your clients better, and assist the client to emphasize his strengths and reduce the symptoms of ADHD. This is a special early morning event to be held in the Ambassador Room, Saturday and Sunday from 7 - 8:15.
What every ADHD Coach needs to know about building an effective online marketing program
How do you attract international paying clients? How can you take advantage of the internet without straining your eyes or banging your forehead on your keyboard? How do you build an effective online marketing program that keeps attracting your perfect clients? It is possible and in this session we will show you how! No really, we will show you how to do it yourself through our demonstrations! Technopobic? Don’t worry Sandra will remove the “Geekese” and explain everything in plain English!