By Pete Liska https://www.linkedin.com/in/peteliska/ In my previous blog, I discussed several personality types and what the Center for Coaching Certification (CCC) teaches in their Certified …
Identify and Adjust … An Example
Center for Coaching Certification Coaching Skills
Coaching Skills
Understanding Your Client
By Pete Liska https://www.linkedin.com/in/peteliska/ When coaching, you are asking many questions to keep your client moving forward, moving towards something. If you don’t understand your …
Listening
By Pete Liska https://www.linkedin.com/in/peteliska/ What is the difference between not really listening and listening with intention? During my coaching certification as part of my homework, …
Telling Limits
During coach training the biggest paradigm shift for many is that instead of giving advice, helping means empowering people to discover their own answers. In …
Career Coach Areas of Expertise
What does subject matter expertise involve for a career coach? Job search strategies – includes how to prepare online profiles, knowledge of the various job …
Celebrating Milestones with Clients
Creating client awareness and goal setting are ICF coaching competencies. Coaching is centered around a client’s drive and intent, so adding a little celebration into …
The Coaching Business Name
To illustrate the point made in the previous blog post on names, let us see the phenomenon in motion: Do you recognize the following names? …
The Power of Positive Thought
By guest blogger Tiffany Kalinka The ability to think positively sounds easy. In fact, for the average person, we have been using limited language the …
Make the Effort: Market Yourself as a Coach to Earn the Rewards
Many new coaches say their biggest challenge is marketing themselves as a coach. Consider this conflicting thought process: I want to help people by coaching …
Conflict Coaching
Helga Rhodes said, “Conflict is a fact of life; it does not have to be a way of life.”  Conflict can be a good thing …