Coaching Tools: 7 Top Coaches Shared Their Favourite Tools for Success

Searching for the best coaching tools to improve your life coaching this year?

Figuring out the best coaching tools can be overwhelming and time-consuming.

Using the best tools can speed up the success of any business.

To help you improve your coaching business, we have asked some of the best coaches to share their favourite coaching tools and how these tools helped them to lead in their coaching niches.

We hope the following coaching tools shared by successful life coaches will help you improve and grow your coaching business.

Known as one of the world’s TOP 30 Business Coaches 2022, TOP 30 Ecommerce and Online Business Growth experts, generating 300% increased sales. Karl Lillrud coach on subjects that enable companies to transform into the world of Digital Commerce.

The world’s best speakers on future, innovation, and leadership for business growth online. With extensive experience from supporting Unicorn startups to Fortune 500 companies like H&M, Spotify, Volvo, Astra Zeneca, and many more in multiple industries i.e. from Internet-based,  E-Commerce, Retail,  Cars, Pharmaceuticals, Government, Telecom, Bank and Finance, Media and more.

You can reach out to him to learn more about how he can empower you and coach you to personal and corporate success.

Favourite coaching tool and why:

My favourite coaching tool is a base, a structure, and a concept of how the coaching program is organized.

This builds trust and understanding connected to expectations.

Straight after we have achieved that with a coaching client, I invest my time into understanding them as they now know what I can do for them.

That means that I focus on understanding the person’s background, pain points, and bottlenecks. What they feel they are missing and what they like to improve or learn more about, what they like to polish and fine-tune.

This resulted in me understanding what I believe will be of the greatest value for us to invest our time in, making sure that my clients get the best possible ROI, and keep in mind that the client invests both time and money so it’s not just providing a financial value but also making sure that the people I work with improve how they spend their time.

That’s why the next step for me is to tailor the program together with the client to make sure that we focus on what gives the most value to them.

Beth is an ICF-certified executive coach. She has a Masters in Psychology and Neuroscience of Mental Health, is an accredited coach with the Academy of Executive Coaching (AoEC), MBTI Practitioner, and Mindfulness trained.

She believes in coaching to build a constructive mindset, increase your mental fitness and empower you to achieve your goals by helping you boost your confidence.

Favourite coaching tool and why:

The best coaching tool any coach can utilise is active listening. Your clients have the answers within themselves, but helping them truly listen to themselves, hold that space for them and challenge them can be the most powerful tool you have as a coach in serving your clients.

Never underestimate the fundamental change that can occur from holding the space to let someone hear themselves and awaken awareness.

Vanessa is a global confidence and leadership coach. She is the founder and head coach at V & CO Coaching where she champions leaders and professionals on their paths to impact and greatness. She’s a Certified Authentic Leadership Coach trained in emotional intelligence, laser-focused coaching, and group coaching.

Moreover, she has ACC certification from the International Coaching Federation. She has helped clients all over the world to overcome challenges like effective communication/difficult conversations, executive presence, life transitions and fulfillment, well-being, work-life balance, burnout, career path, and legacy.

Favourite coaching tool and why:

The ‘Three Choices’ Exercise: Leave it, Change it, or Accept it 100%. Based on a passage from Eckhart Tolle’s NYTimes bestselling book, The Power of Now, this framework is both practical and profound.

Applied to a challenging situation, the surrounding anxiety is immediately mitigated when the client recognizes that they have exactly three reasonable choices: leave the situation, change the situation, or accept the situation 100%.

I love the effect that this tool has – it alleviates concern and worry over situations that are not in the client’s control, empowers the client to be in the driver’s seat of the factors they can change, repositions the client to solution-mode, and can open the door to an acceptance practice.

Ashley Stahl is a career coach, TEDx speaker, and a published author. She has also worked as a counterterrorism professional and is now on a mission to empower job seekers to step into career that lights them up.

As a career coach, she has helped people in over 31 countries in identifying and following their dream career paths.

Favourite coaching tool and why:

My favorite tool is the book Prosperous Coach by Chandler and Litvin– they are masterful coaches who effectively show through their words and practices how transformational coaching can be, and I think every coach should read it.

Christine Comaford is a leadership coach and the founder of SmartTribe Institute. She brings over 30 years of experience into the coaching niche. She specializes in applied neuroscience, which helps her clients achieve tremendous results in record time. 

Christine is a human behavior expert, a leadership columnist for Forbes.com, and the New York Times bestselling author of Power Your Tribe, SmartTribes and Rules for Renegades.

Favourite coaching tool and why:

The Outcome frame as it helps our clients get clear on what result they truly want and how to get it!

Cortney McDermott is a coach, keynote speaker, and best-selling author. Her mission is to elevate human potential and help them reach their desired goals for satisfaction and fulfillment.

She helps the world’s leading organizations and creatives to disrupt old patterns of behavior, grow sustainable businesses, and apply the physiology and psychology needed for success.

Her work in the field of self-development has been featured in Inc., Women’s Health, SUCCESS, The Huffington Post, FOX news, and most other major business and lifestyle media.

Favourite coaching tool and why:

My favorite coaching tool is not a tool. It’s a shift in consciousness or awareness.

…Because the world doesn’t give you what you want. It gives you who you’re being.

A lot of people go around thinking they can just wish for stuff and maybe it’ll show up. It doesn’t work that way.

The way we make our desires manifest is by aligning with them.

It’s the moment we realize that we can believe ourselves into being who we would need to be to create what we want…  

It’s in this way when we align ourselves to who we’re consciously deciding to become, that our actions (or the “tools”) automatically click into place.

Enjoy and conjure up the best life you can imagine for yourself! 

Nadiya Manji is a sought-after Transformational Life Coach, emotional intelligence and energy expert for life and business.  Nadiya is the 2021, Yahoo Finance’s #1 Top Female Life Coach That Will Impact Your Life.  She was also honored as a Top Life Coach to Look out For, in 2022; by Disruptors Magazine.  She is a Registered Clinical Hypnotherapist, a Grand Reiki Master, a Certified Master Practitioner in Neuro-Linguistic Programming, and an international best selling author. She is an accredited Executive Coach, and a Certified Emotional Intelligence coach.  

Author of  Searching for Balance (2019),  and co-author of Cracking the Rich Code of Life and Business (2021), Nadiya shares her story and approach to unlocking one’s high performance through internal alignment. She has shared her message of alignment as a TEDx speaker and through international speaking engagements.   

Nadiya is the founder of Rewire Your Life and Business, and the CEO of Curacion Group of Companies.  Moreover, She is a two time (2020 and 2021) contributor to the 100 Women of Inspiration publication, and is a two-time finalist of the Women of Inspiration awards. 

Favourite coaching tool and why:

Creating transformation through storytelling and visualization

Through twenty years of working with clients, I have found immense success, as have my clients, with the use of two tools: storytelling through metaphors and visualization.

Metaphors

As an emotional intelligence expert, I want to use tools that measure the emotional meter of my client.  This will uncover aspects of themselves such self-awareness, triggers, and the motivation to address their underlying challenges.  To do so, I need to tap into the world of my client, through the use of metaphors. 

Metaphors are real-life connections, and people easily relate to them.  The examples that I use are customized to the context of my client’s life, and become easily translatable and expand a client’s self-awareness and consciousness.  It allows the coaching process is to bring the best out of the client so they can solve their own problems and build the skills they need for transformation and resilience.  I have found great emotional connection with my clients through the use of metaphors, and have seen people grow emotionally with this process. 

Visualization

The second tool I use on a regular basis is visualization.  As a registered clinical hypnotherapist, visualization is a powerful tool to tap into subconscious world of the client.  To tap into the unconscious mind to create the reality of the conscious mind.   80% of our experience is visual, so it is important for us to use this conscious and unconscious sense to create goals and outcomes for the client.  If you can visualize it, you can materialize it (Manji, 2022). 

I am very driven to be solution focused, and these tools generate a lot of success.   It’s all about creating a natural experience for transformation that as a coach, you guide your client to manifest themselves.  These tolls serve intuition, create solutions, and motivate and keep them accountable to create the shift that they are looking for.

Conclusion

We appreciate all the successful coaches for taking the time and share their favourite coaching tools. We hope these tools will help other coaches to improve and grow their coaching businesses.

What is your favourite coaching tool?

If you are a coach, please feel free to share your thoughts in the comments below.