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Newsletters

January 2025: We’ve Moved to a New Digital Home!

🌟 Exciting News: We’ve Moved to a New Digital Home! 🌐   We are thrilled to announce Potentials Customized Coaching & Consulting’s new domain: potentialsccc.com! This change reflects our evolving vision and unwavering commitment to enhancing your experience with us.    Our new address is just the beginning—expect innovative ideas, exciting updates, and a user-friendly design that puts you first. From insightful blog posts to transformative coaching tools, our new platform is designed to help you unlock your full potential.

Potentials News and Blog January 20, 2025
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Coaching

Tailored Solutions for Your Unique Journey to Success

At Potentials Customized Coaching and Consulting, we believe that one-size-fits-all solutions are rarely effective when it comes to organizational development. Our approach is centered on the understanding that every organization has its own unique challenges, strengths, and opportunities. This is why we customize our offerings to fit the specific needs of each client, ensuring that the work we do has a meaningful, lasting impact.  The Power of a Customized Approach  Our philosophy is simple: one-size

Potentials News and Blog January 9, 2025
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Newsletters

December 2024: Why Most New Year’s Resolutions Fail

Why Most New Year’s Resolutions Fail (and How to Make Yours Stick)     Every January, millions of people set lofty New Year’s resolutions, hoping to make sustainable changes. Yet, by February, the gym memberships gather dust, journals lie abandoned, and enthusiasm wanes. Why do so many resolutions fail? Here are four common reasons—and “fixes” to help you create lasting change.   1. Resolutions Focus Solely on Goals, Not Self-Care   Most resolutions are centered

Potentials News and Blog December 16, 2024
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Book Review

Book Review: The Culture Playbook by Daniel Coyle

At Potentials, we often hear churches describe themselves as if they were unicorns. “We are so different from other places.” “With our history, outsiders just can’t understand.” “We are special.” We know that every church has its own distinct culture. But we also know that most people only know pieces of that culture. Building on his work in The Culture Code, Daniel Coyle develops practical exercises for deepening a community’s understanding of its culture in

Potentials News and Blog December 10, 2024
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Coaching

Maximizing Potential: Why a Coach Can Be Key to Organizational Success

We have all heard, and maybe even used, the phrase ourselves: “let’s get them some coaching on…” That usually means advice – call it mentoring or counseling, consulting or guidance, advisory or directive counsel, it is not coaching. In these circumstances the advisor, whatever their contracted or relational role, is involved in imparting wisdom and guidance to the person they believe needs help, whether asked to do so or not. They are providing a potential

Potentials News and Blog November 21, 2024
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Coaching

Bringing the “Unthought Known” to Life

Coaching & Consulting: Bringing the “Unthought Known” to Life We all have them, unthought knowns, that is. “What the heck is she talking about?”, you may well ask. In this book, The Shadow of the Object, Christopher Bollas both coins and defines “the unthought known” as…  “…preverbal, unschematized early experience that may determine one’s behavior unconsciously, barred to conscious thought [1].” To add a couple of other concepts of knowing to those raised in our

Potentials News and Blog October 14, 2024

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