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Part 4 of a four part series by Janet M. Harvey, PCC and Jan Berg, PCC of inviteCHANGE

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SUSTAIN A PROFITABLE BUSINESS:
Presence is the Heart of Enrollment Ease


PART FOUR: Presence is the Heart of Enrollment Ease

What are our conditions of satisfaction as coach, business professional, entrepreneur, significant other/spouse, sibling, friend and individual? How do those conditions influence our choice for giving attention to something or someone? How often do we give ourselves permission to even consider this question? How does our level of satisfaction impact our ability to enroll clients? What supports us in remembering our front door invitation to coaching through essence expression in every relationship in our lives?

When we notice ease and joy as the defining qualities of our experience with self and others we feel bold, adventurous and ignited. We are stimulated through our presence and engagement to discover, activate, encourage and acknowledge that same boldness in others, especially in partnership with clients.

The highly satisfying relationships in our lives spark our essential presence, discipline our attention and strengthen our experience of ease and joy. A reinforcing pattern emerges that sustains us and attracts others.

Clarity brings out the best in us. What is available to us from the way we are being with our clients?

Clarity about our values-based drivers of satisfaction calibrates our lens of perception into the world so that we engage others from our hearts. Pursuing clarity increases the quantity of relationships we love, respect, admire and desire, the ones that bring out the best of us. It is this described state of being that powerfully inducts others that will sustain us!

When we dare to be different, unique in our essence and fearlessly authentic, present in clarity with self and others, we come to trust our attraction to those who seek their own authenticity and those who value our way of being.

Once we're walking our walk, all that's left is talking the talk.

Authentic Presence

What infuses our ordinary lives with a quality of satisfaction that is contagious with others? Clarity refines our commitments and balances our presence when we align with our central values that sustain our essence-based choices. Feeling familiar? What about the core coaching competencies[1] supports us? How are we applying coaching presence, building trust and intimacy and creating awareness as we engage others in our lives? Oh that!

What helps us to consciously choose our presence with the confidence that who we are being is what telegraphs and inducts others to be with us? How do we build trust and intimacy in our relationships that inspires others to accept our invitation? What triggers discovery of our client's dreams, aspirations and personal and professional visions so that our invitation for coaching is natural, organic and compelling?

How do we strengthen our authentic presence for sustaining profitable business?
  1. Dare to be different, unique in our essence expression, fearlessly authentic; this is contagious.
  2. Identify the intersection of a client's conditions of satisfaction and the authentic you; create awareness for the possibility through a coaching relationship!
  3. Express a clear request. In every relationship we extend an invitation that makes it easy for others to say "yes" because they see themselves served and satisfied through the relationship with us as coach.
[1] ICF Core Coaching Competencies are the backbone of our profession: Competencies #3, Build Trust & Intimacy, #4 Coaching Presence and #8 Creating Awareness are foundation to generating relationships that sustain our business.

Janet M. Harvey, PCC & Jan Berg, PCC are Partners and Senior Faculty for inviteCHANGE, www.invitechange.com a company created for those in search of meaningful processes that help catalyze learning and integrate a process for lasting change in one's personal and professional life. Janet embraces transformative coaching as a discovery process that ignites and empowers clients to choose beliefs and behaviors that generate a magnificent life experience aligned with one's core being. Jan is an advocate for human potential, tirelessly committing herself to the personal growth of others, masterful at helping her clients navigate through the tidal waves of transition with compassion, insightfulness and graceful confidence.

contact: Janet.harvey@invitechange.com jan.berg@invitechange.com

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