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Courtesy links to Products and Resources featured in the Coaching Tools Column of Choice magazine authored by Coaching Toys president, Marcy Nelson-Garrison.
Products and Resources
Vol 8 Issue 3
Group Coaching Success with Michelle Schubnel
A home study program that definitely over delivers. Michelle covers everything from marketing, to group coaching skills to structural details. www.GroupCoachingSuccess.comBusiness Goddesses guide to creating Powerful Sales Pages with Ease Authenticity and Heart by Laura West
Finally someone is taking a stand for no more ugly, noisy, pushy sales letters and is committed to helping us do it effectively in a new, heart-centered way.Eeasy to read and well designed. It actually inspires you to want to tackle a sales page and feel excited to do so. Business Goddesses Guides to Creating Powerful Sales PagesDream Cards ™
Dream Cards™ will get your clients or group participants opening to new possibilities and exploring big dreams quickly. It's a wonderful tool for discovery sessions, workshops or couples work and it's adaptable to most niches
Learn more at Dream Cards and in the Coaching Toys StoreSmart Phone Aps and Coaching
NotifyMe
This app sends you important reminders by using what iPhone calls push technology. There are multiple ways to schedule the prompts and multiple categories to choose from. Now imagine using it to prompt a bit of coaching homework like an inquiry or a reminder to track a specific behavior or to take a life balance break. A very cool structure for clients! NotifyMe
gFlashPro
gFlashPro that allows you to custom create your own flashcards - the possibilities are endless. Try staying in touch with clients between sessions by randomly choosing a question card and send it off to them. For example - “Who in your organization needs acknowledgement today?” gFlashProGroup Coaching Manager
To run a successful group it's important to have a way to communicate with group members, give them easy access to each other and be able to track progress. This program does it all and you can run up to 5 groups at once. www.Group Coaching Manager.comVol 8 Issue 2
Money Habitudes™ A guide for Professionals Working with Money Related Issues
The card sort process identifies core money habits and the workbook provides step by step guidance, worksheets and exercises to deepen awareness and create specific goals. www.moneyhabitudes.comEffective Group Coaching by Jennifer Britton
This new book reflects the new industry standard on doing group coaching. It is grounded in current research and best practices from luminaries in the coaching industry. A wonderful resource for new and seasoned coaches.
www.groupcoachingessentials.comComing Out of Hiding by Suzanne Falter-Barns
Two CD set addresses fears often associated with increased visibility and provides tools to stretch you beyond your comfort zone. http://getknownnow.com/comingoutofhiding.htmlJoy Cards ™
Artful images on one side and fresh, interesting quotes on the other. Prop one on your computer keyboard for the day or send one off in the mail with a note to a client. Lots of fun ways to use them. www.happyjoypics.comReleasing Blocks to Action by Ann Weiser Cornell
A Five CD course grounded in a technique called Focusing. Focusing is a deep listening process that tunes into
body awareness, works with the 'felt sense'. The audio course covers relevant content about presence, qualities, myths and agency and introduces four distinct patterns that show up; protection, rebellion, unfinished business and inner guidance. www.focusingresources.comVol 8 Issue 1
YES! DECK Seriously fun business tools to help you get unstuck
www.improvedge.comFinancial Alchemy ™ Twelve Months of Magic and Manifestation Workbook plus CD http://moneymagnetstore.com/
Easily Wired, Networking with no unnatural acts
Available at http://www.tangiblegroup.com/Tangible_Resources.html and in the Coachingtoys.com StoreCreative Wellness Guided Meditations-6 Mini Retreats
Available at http://creativewellnessworks.com/products/ and in the Coaching Toys StoreThe Invisible Close, 97 Secrets Revealed
Available at www.theinvisibleclose.comVol 7 Issue 4 (Dec. 09)
Happy For No Reason: 7 Steps to Being Happy from the Inside Out
Marci Shimoff's new home study program includes a 65 page workbook filled with exercises and practices that you can apply immediately. The eight audio CD's deliver the 7 powerful steps with in depth guidance, loads of inspiration and powerful guided visualizations. You also get a dose of holosync and paraliminal audio technologies blended with the content. Available through Learning Strategies.comMiniature Metaphors, Processing Treasure Chest
These reasures in a tin - 30 small, charm-sized, mostly pewter, objects like; a pair of tiny eyeglasses, a hammer, a ballerina, a ladder and so much more offer delightful metaphor prompts for individual and group work. Available at www.experientialtools.comCreations, A guided journal for consciously manifesting dreams
This lovely journal gently guides you towards clarity and focused attention on what you want to manifest in your life. The content, easily laid out in the first part of the journal, describes three phases of manifesting. Available at www.indigomagic.net and in the Coaching Toys StoreMindMeister
Completely web based mind mapping program allows you to access your mind maps from any computer and even create mind maps collaboratively in real time. Available at www.MindMeister.comMetaphor/Feeling Cards
Wonderful image based processing/debriefing tools. The cool thing about The Metaphor/Feeling cards is that you really get two tools in one deck. One side features graphic images, the other side a single feeling word. Each version is designed to be used independently. Available at www.training-wheels.com and in the Coaching Toys Store.Vol 7 Issue 3 (Sept. 09)
Thought Spots ™
Thought Spots™ offers lots of cool and colorful messages like “Have faith in your instincts.” Just peel off the thought of your choice and stick it on a mirror, window or other shiny surface. They are repositionable, re-usable and just plain easy. Great simple structures to support client goals and intentions. Available at www.thoughtspots.ca and in the coaching toys storeHeart's Desire CD
This CD serves up a simple 6 step process for manifesting. The process is based on The One Command developed by Asara Lovejoy. This is a great tool for anyone dealing with resistance on the way to what they want. Available at www.lodestonedynamics.com and in the coaching toys storeThe Intention Box
As lifestyle tools go, this one is platinum. The exquisite design and quality construction coupled with a compelling process definitely tells the universe you are ready for anything your heart intends. Available at www.theintentionbox.comThe Prosperity Game Home Study Course
Get ready to challenge those limiting beliefs and expand your comfort with having more. The Prosperity Game 12 week course guides you to apply the laws of attraction, deliberate creating and allowing with Jeanna Gabellini and Eva Gregory as your passionate guides. Just hangin' with these two women is going to “raise your vibration”.Check out their products at www.abundanceabounds.comThomas Leonard's Full Practice For Coaches: 100 Time-Tested Lessons From Coaching's Founding Father
This broad stroke collection of 100 lessons covers everything you need to know about marketing; creating your marketing message, designing a web site, increasing web traffic, ezines, ecourses, social networking, building a national reputation, managing your successful practice and so much more. And from a coaching legend. Available at www.BestofThomas.comVol 7 Issue 2 (June 09)
The Creative Entrepreneur (Quarry Books) Lisa Sonora Beam
The Creative Entrepreneur, by Lisa Sonora Beam, masterfully translates business concepts into artistic tools and exercises. It succeeds in making business palatable to those who would rather run the other direction at the mere mention of a business plan, a SWOT or a competitive business analysis. Available at www.thecreativeentrepreneur.bizThe Coach Camp Laser Coaching Field Guide & Audio Program
7.5 hours of audio and a Laser Coaching Field Guide created by Marion Franklin MS MCC and Nina East IAC-CC, offer a rich mix of instruction, client situations and coaching demos. The five areas of focus include; The HeART of Listening, Intuition, Laser Coaching, Creating Shifts and Being a Coach. Available at www.CoachCamps.comThe Abounding River ™ The Game of Being Abundant
This is a fun and engaging board game that offers unexpected depth. It is spiritually grounded and its main premise is to help players focus on the abundance already occurring in their lives. There are huge possibilities for integrating this game into coaching. Use it in workshops, retreats and consider game nights with follow-up coaching. Available at www.cafegratitude.comKendall Summerhawks, How to Add 6-Figures to Your Business Practically Overnight With Lucrative, High-End “Platinum Style” Coaching Programs
Kendall summerhawk's home study program on how to create high-end platinum style programs promises step-by- step instruction on how to replicate her success and she really delivers! Her multi-media program walks you through everything; how to design your programs, how to enroll platinum clients and even the payment strategies you need to have in place. The examples, templates and forms provided are invaluable. Available at www.KendallSumerhawk.comVol 7 Issue 1 (April 09)
Points Of You™, The Coaching Game, An amazing, creative, fun, self-coaching process. The package includes a cloth game board, 65 cards, each with an interesting photograph and a single word, a beautifully written companion book and a tear off pad for notes, insights and future action. The Coaching Game is powerful on its own and amazing when experienced with another – specifically a coach. Available at www.thecoachinggame.com and In the Coaching Toys Store.
The KGI™ Assessment (The Klein Group Instrument for Effective Leadership and Participation in Teams), The KGI™ Assessment measures behavior in four dimensions: Leadership, Negotiation, Task Execution and Interpersonal Relations. The assessment can be adapted for both individual and team use. An excellent tool for setting priorities in coaching. Available at CAPT (The Center for Application of Psychological type).
Ready2Go Workshop – Say it! Hear it! The Power of Effective Communications Say it! Hear it! is one of several professionally designed workshops created specifically for coaches. The available topics are relevant to most markets and the content is excellent. The package includes everything you need: facilitators guide, handouts for participants, marketing guide, marketing materials, and suggestions for following up with participants after the workshop. Available at Ready2GoMarketingSolutions.com and in the Coaching Toys online store.
Driving Reflections, A great coaching structure for your car. Driving Reflections, offers collections of inspirational statements designed to help you develop positive thought habits. They come in a holder that sits on the dash board of your car. The message of your choice is then reflected off the windshield. Available at GetItInYourSoul.com and in the Coaching Toys Store.
Vol 6 Issue 4 (January 09)
The Whack Ball ™ by Roger von Oech
The author of, A Whack on the Side of the Head, has an exciting new creativity tool called Ball of Whacks that engages all of the standard pathways to promote a creative mindset: meditation, play, metaphor and stimulation. Toss it around, take it apart, create new designs, invent whacky shapes and make up stories to go with your creations. A 96 page guidebook offers plenty of suggestions for both individual and group brainstorming and problem solving. Available at www.CreativeWhack.comVisioning Your World ™
A new online program that helps you make the goals and the vision you have for your life visual. It is highly customizable, has a fresh feel about it and it is extremely user friendly. Available at www.VisioningYourWorld.comLet's Talk Coaching Cards ™ , by Jenifer Madson
Let's Talk Coaching Cards is both an individual tool designed to help you become your own financial coach and group process tool – in fact, Jenifer refers to it as the Lets Talk MONEY Game. Available at www.playthecoach.com, and in the Coaching Toys StoreThe Customizable Style Guide for Coaches Who Write by Linda Dessau
Linda Dessau, spells out everything you need to know relative to the kind of business writing you do as a coach; emails, articles, course materials, white papers, assessments, quizzes, etc. in a simple, light and very easy to understand style. Available at www.ForCoachesWhoWrite.com and in the Coaching Toys StoreVol 6 Issue 3 (September 2008)
What Drives You Crazy Makes You Great!
Michel Neray's virtual workshop on CD and downloadable workbook help you go beyond finding a niche and writing an elevator speech to something even more effective. Michel guides you to find your unique gift, EssentialMessage.comRight Brain Business Plan by Jennifer Lee
Fun, quirky and playful, the plan is fully downloadable and comes with a guided visualization to help you envision the future you want for your business. Available in the Coaching Toys Online Store and at ArtizenCoaching.comThe Coaching by Example 9-Cd Series
One of the best ways to grow as a coach is to listen to masterful coaching. The 9 CD set features the coaching ofMaster Coach Barbra Sundquist as well as eight guest coaches. LearnCoachingByExample.comLifemastering™ Software
The Lifemastering™ Software is an amazing web based program that allows you to visualize your goals in both words and pictures. Lifematering.comVol 6 Issue 2 (June 2008)
Creating, Collecting and Coaching Groups, CD Series
A 3 CD set developed by Master Coach, Ginger Cockerham, offers the perfect introduction to group coaching.
Ginger Cockerham.comThe Peaceful Heart, a practical guide to unconditional love and forgiveness (CD)
Master storyteller and counselor Mary Hayes Grieco, beautifully illustrates the power, meaning and life affirming impact of forgiveness and she teaches you a process that can be used again and again. MaryHayesGrieco.comHue Are U? A Deck For Discovering Your True Self based on the Dewey Color System
An easy, fun and reliable personality assessment tool using a simple process of sorting through cards and choosing colors in each category. Choices point to how you relate to the world and engage with others. Hue Are UCoach Genie
CoachGenie is a template based website solution designed to meet the specific needs of the coaching / consulting industry. It is extremely easy to set up and offers a ton of great features. www.coachgenie.comThe Writer's Toolbox: Creative Games and Exercises for Inspiring the 'Write' Side of Your Brain
Truly imaginative tools to get the creative juices flowing. Use it in any setting where you need to inject some new thinking, a creative perspective or just loosen things up. Perfect for creative writers! The Writers ToolboxVol 6 Issue 1 (March 2008)
Emergence CD - A meditative journey through the seasons, perfect for personal exploration, transitions and retreats. Available in the Coachingtoys.com online store and at www.steppingstonescoaching.com
Roadmap to Meaningful Midlife - A 2 CD set that offers anyone in a midlife transition a complete process of creating a vision, developing and action plan and moving through obstacles. Available in the Coachingtoys.com online store and at www.pathmakercoaching.com
A Senesable™ Friend - A card deck that engages you in a powerful and creative process of personal reflection. Available at www.asenseablefriend.com and www.coachingtoys.com
Q? Basics, Open-ended questions for coaching mastery -A perfect training tool for new coaches, managers and trainers. Available in the Coachingtoys.com online store and at www.basiccoachingquestions.com
Leadership Keys Field Guide and Leadership Keys - Like Cliff notes for Emotional Intelligence Coaching. A desk reference of helpful tools to build core EI competencies. Available at www.truenorthleadership.com
Vol 5 Issue 4 (December 2007)
BreathMinder - Your personal breathing coach. Attach it to your belt or carry it in your pocket for a buzzing reminder to take a deep breath every 15 minutes. Works great as a reminder for affirmations or anything you want to note on a regular basis. Available in the coachingtoys.com online store and at www.breathminder.com
Color Me Wonderful -A Coloring Book and Journal for Women. Choosing which whimisical drawing is as much a part of the process as coloring. A creative way to relax and manage stress.
Available in the coachingtoys.com online store and at www.colorme-wonderful.comLunch Mail - 30 miniature pop-open cards. Send your child off to school with a little' love note ' that offers inspiration and encourages them to believe in themselves. Available at www.compendium Inc.
Body-Centered Coaching Illuminated - 3 CD set to deepen your coaching skills and learn body-centered coaching techniques. Marlena Field is a master teacher and her coaching demos are filled with great heart and brilliance.
Available in the coachingtoys.com online store and at www.bodymindspiritcoaching.comFame Cards - Writing prompts for the right and left brain. Draw any card randomly and you will be greeted by a provocative one line prompt to get the creative juices flowing.
Available in the coachingtoys.com online store and at www.famecards.caVol 5 Issue 3 (September 2007)
Joyful Business Guide – A wonderful package of information and tools that bring joy, playfulness and laws of attraction to the work of building and sustaining a successful business. www.joyfulbusinessguide.com
Bilateral Audio Programs - Deep Confidence, Perfect Body/Perfect Health, Automatic Abundance - An exciting breakthrough to help clear out negative programming. Available at www.diamondlifecoach.com
Today is your day – Magnetic Card Set –A delightful structure to help you keep focused on whatever intention, goal or attitude you are cultivating. available at www.compendiuminc.com
Ask and it is Given Cards by Esther and Jerry Hicks - A perfect way to incorporate the Laws of Attraction into a daily practice. Available at Amazon book store and www.abraham-hicks.com
Alexandria Brown's Online Success Blueprint in a Box
The Online Success Blueprint Workshop covers everything you need to know about how to create a profitable website.Vol 5 Issue 2 (June 2007)
Transition Toolkit
The Transition Toolkit is a wonderful structure to suggest or gift to a client in transition. A perfect way to welcome in relaxation and faith in the process - a very sweet and gentle healing ritual in a bag. Available at www.enbalance.bizLive Dynamite Upside Kit
The richly designed Upside Kit guides you to set intention, acknowledge your own greatness, recognize patterns, create a vision, set goals, develop habits, celebrate milestones and more. Available at www.livedynamite.comThe Shift Deck
Shift (the verb) is invited through play, humor, creativity and getting you out of your head. Use to shift perspective, energy or as an icebreaker in a training event or a party. Available in the coachingtoys.com online store and at www.consciouslife.netDreams In The Making CD
Music that makes a difference and inspires others to reach for the life they want. Scott Johnson's CD is a perfect fit for coaching workshops and client with titles like; Dreams in the Making, On the Verge of Something Great and What Matters Most. Available in the coachingtoys.com online store and at www.googolpress.comManifest Your Magnificence CD
Play this CD often to remind children (or the child in you) how magnificent, smart, loving, friendly, creative, talented and special they are. Coming soon to the Coaching Toys online store.Vol 5 Issue 1 (March 2007)
The Coaches Console - An awesome web-based software system that helps you manage all the details of your business - client data, notes, invoicing, scheduling etc. It is well designed, intuitive and has great customer service and training.
Face The Music CD - Open your next training event with a little rhythm and blues. Great music and each song speaks to a work topic.
Values Discovery Cards and Journal - perfect combo to facilitate values work for individuals or in a corporate settings. Available at Madd-Steiny.com and in the Coaching Toys online store.
Creativity Coaching Cards - 22 colorful flip book style cards with titles like; Inspiration, True Colors, Vision, and Cutting Edge. Each card is like a mini-workshop. Available at thecreativeflow.com and in the Coaching Toys online store.
I Am...Affirmation Cards - There are 150 statements to choose from like; I am relaxed, I am unfolding, I am powerful, I am dependable. A simple positive I am statement is a small step that can lead to big changes.
Available at apositivethought.com and in the Coaching Toys online store.Vol 4 Issue 4 (January 2007)
5 Dynamics - webbased program that is part assessment, part work horse for designing relationships, optimizing teams and managing projects. www.5dynamics.com
Guidance Cards - A web-based visual coaching tool - allows you and your client to work with a visual image via the internet. www.guidance coach.com Also available through the Coaching Toys online store
From Chaos to Genius - Fast Track Fundamentals CD by Robert Steinbach to help make organizing easier. tips, tools and strategies for greater productvity in your personal and business life. Also available in the Coaching Toys store
Seasons of Change, A journal of Self-Discovery - for anyone going through a major transition, this journal is the perfect guide and a wonderful companion to coaching. (contact information to come)
Vol 4 Issue 3
Passion Portal Quest Deck, Explore your core passions with this simple but richly layered card sort process.
Acing the Interview, Brilliant Tip cards to help you prep for an interview. Also available in the Coaching Toys store
I Am and I Will Spirit Cards, Beautiful affirmations that empower new ways to talk to ourselves. Also available in the the Coaching toys online store Coachingtoys.com
Great Question! Enganing, action leaning game designed to introduce and teach coaching skills to a corporate audience. Now available in the coaching toys store
The Practice Building Workshop by Cheryl Richardson. The package includes 6CD's recorded from her live training programs.
Vol 4 Issue 2
Hats-In-A-Bag A fun collection of hats to enliven your workshops.
Pink Spoon Marketing; the Art & Science of Building a Multiple Streams Business by Andrea J. Lee and Tina Forsyth - 189 page ebook and 5 audio CD's
Shift
A fun board game that shifts thinking and awareness. Also available in the coachingtoys storeChange the Way You See Everything with Asset Based Thinking
by Katheryn D. Cramer PhD. A beautiful and provocative coffee table quality bookMind Makeover Magic - A software program to create customized recordings of affirmations in MP3 format
Vol 4 issue 1
The Sun Journal
A quiet, intimate, gentle, permission giving journal that invites you to dive a little deeper.
Also at Coaching ToysElevations
Unique online career discovery tool with a coach approach.Passion to Product-The Basics
Learn how to create tangible productsDesign Your Dream Life
(4 CD set) by Dream Coach Marcia Weider
You can't help but begin to dream when you listen to this series.
Also At Coaching ToysFlying Pink Pig –by Envision Your Dreams
When it comes to your dreams – pigs can indeed fly. Also At Coaching Toys
Vol 3 issue 4
Success and Me Game
A fun, lively and entertaining process, to help people discover their own unique definition of success.Hypnosis Network.com
A reputable source for solid, ethical and effective audio hypnosis programs addressing common challenges.KnowBrainer
A small portable creativity tool from SolutionPeople that packs an amazing wallop. It facilitates a 4-step accelerated innovation process that has broad applications.I Am Divine Cards
Original art, the power of “I Am” statements and a belief in the natural divinity of all things in a simple and beautiful deck of cards.Isle of View Insight Cards
A fun, enchanting, blend of meaningful acronyms and inspiration to awaken hope and possibility.
Vol 3 Issue 3
Get Unstuck & Get Going...On the stuff that matters By Michael Bungay Stanier
An ingeniously designed, interactive, problem-solving, idea-generating tool that champions possibility. Definitely worth checking out.Self Help & Wishful Thinking By Caffein Press
A two journal set that offers a wonderful structure for self reflection with inquiries and imagery prompts.
Secrets of Successful Ezines; A guide to Writing and Publishing Ezines that Get Results By Patsi Krakoff
This ebook definitely "over delivers." . available in the Coaching Toys store
Ask Einstein By Gary Betwhistle, Blue Moon Creative
A fun, out of the box, brainstorming tool. available in the Coaching Toys storeBuild A Better Blog System; Tips Tricks & Techniques for Creating A Professional Blog By Denise Wakeman and Patsi Krakoff
Blogs are hot these days and this exceptional 133 page ebook will help you create yours.Vol 3 issue 1
Mental Block Busters ,a fun creativity tool
Sanctuary , Emily Britt - relaxation audio product
Permission to Be , Leza Danly - guided visualization audio product
Realizing Your True Self, By Ricki Rush -2 delightful guided visualizations - meet your future Self meet your Magical Child.
Inspired Collage Cards, Jackie Levin, proceeds go to cancer research and support services.
Client Compass Practice management software for life business and executive coaches. Originally developed by Sylva Leduc and Bob Rican, now available through Wiley
Get Known Now Extensive "how to" information in an Ebook package by Suzanne Falter Barns on how to build your platform as a self-help professional and become famous in your field.
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