This is an article I wrote for Christian Coaching Magazine. While it talks about finding your coaching vibe and tribe, you can use the five steps to help create awareness of what makes you, You, to find your unique vibe and your loyal tribe.
I wish I would have known about these steps years ago because they would have helped me understand more about myself, my personality, my strengths, my weaknesses, my core values and my beliefs.
When you know these things about yourself, they instill confidence and they help you be the best person you can be in your life, career, and most importantly in your relationships because you already know what you value and what you will and won’t do and you are free to be the unique You God created you to be!
When you know these things about yourself, you will find your tribe. The people who bring out the best in you, who want the best for you, and who are your biggest supporters and encouragers because they get you!
I hope you will take the time to do the deep dive into the unique YOU that God created you to be!
Jackie
I was pushed into the tyranny of the urgent!
Coaching peers were putting themselves out in digital space creating websites and other marketing strategies and I wanted to jump in and start the process too. Time after time, as I would attempt to join them, I would be pulled back into reality. Truth is, I had no idea what to do. Questions kept me circling in web space unable to land. So I put the project on hold, did my research, and asked myself the questions that would help me know what my coaching vibe was and who my coaching tribe is. Knowing your coaching vibe is key to attracting your coaching tribe.
My research indicated the need to find at least five words or phrases to describe myself. Not just what I thought about myself, but what others have said about me because “branding is how other people perceive you” (Williams, 2016, Branding a Love Story). These words start to paint a picture of what your vibe is. From there you would want to ask yourself, how do these vibes show up in my coaching and how can I create my coaching vibe around them?
As you begin the discovery process into your vibe, be sure that your vibe is authentically you. Your vibe will not work if it is a made up version of who you wish you were rather than who you really are. Ask yourself: “What makes me, ME?” Really honing in on your core values, beliefs, strengths and weaknesses. Don’t skip this step! Take some time in a quiet space to write these down and ask God to reveal. Once you have done the deep dive into your authentic self, you will begin to find your vibe. And that vibe, the unique blend of who you are right now, your core values and beliefs, your personality, your strengths and weaknesses and what others say about you, is what you will use to brand yourself as a coach in person, on paper and online and that is what will attract your tribe.
Having an online presence these days is like an online business card or brochure that makes a statement about who you are, what you have to offer and what people can expect when working with you and the online presence assures your credibility and that you are a legitimate business.
Your vibe will attract the tribe of people who share similar core values and beliefs and those are the tribe of people who will want to be your clients and who will refer their friends and co-workers to you. Because as you know, people do business with people they like, know and trust.
Steps to finding your vibe and tribe:
- Find 5 words or phrases that describe you.
- Ask your tribe to give you their description of you (you can use social media to do this).
- Take some time to identify your core values, beliefs, strengths and weaknesses and write them down. This step is key to finding your authentic self.
- Pray and ask God to reveal any obstacles to identifying your authentic self.
- Make the investment and hire a web designer to help you create your coaching brand.
Taking this deep dive inventory of your authentic self now will help you articulate your vibe so you attract your authentic coaching tribe!
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