TILT – Therapeutic Innovations in Light of Technology
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TECHNOLOGY ENHANCED D The Coaches Console Many people just getting started in the field of coaching are unsure about where to start with respect to organizing, managing and promoting your coaching business. Even if you have been coaching for some time now, you may know there must be a better way to manage all of the paper work, but you just haven’t had the time to look into best solutions. Perhaps you’ve already looked into all this and you’re beginning to find that launching a coaching website, administering e-newsletter services, processing payments, and providing secure online messaging can add up to thousands of dollars and lost opportunity to make a living doing what you love to do: coach. Kate Steinbacher, PCC and Melinda Cohan, founders of The Coaches Console, have developed a user-friendly web application for as little as $49 per month. More than a robust online web application, Kate and Melinda see their Coaches Console as a system designed to provide coaches with all of the tools and resources they need to not only support their clients, but equally importantly, grow their business and learn from emerging leaders in the field. According to Kate, The Coaches Console “gives coaches confidence” where they need it most,
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in running their coaching b u s i n e s s . Whether it’s getting the most out of a website, attracting new clients, supporting clients in a secure way online, efficiently setting appointments, or processing payments, The Coaches Console frees the coach up to do the work they love to do: helping their clients pursue and achieve what’s most important to them. Written in PHP, a widely used, general purpose scripting language, The Coaches Console is finely tuned to the day-to-day needs of running a coaching business and providing coaching services. Deployed via a software as a service (SaaS) model, Coaches Console’s licensed users receive ongoing updates to the web application. Coaches and clients access their unique web pages via secure usernames and passwords similar to the way in which one might access their bank account or cell phone account. Shaped and developed through over 7 years of deployment and more than 2000 users, The Coaches Console is now a colorful, feature-rich, secure web application that includes just about everything a coach needs to market, manage and