When someone is considering engaging with a coach for the first time, they often want more information about the benefits. Basically, the new client is …
Transparency About Coaching
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Transparency in Coaching
How does transparency apply in coaching? Transparency is essential for ethical behavior in the coaching profession. When discussing the Code of Ethics during coach training …
Summaries of Coaching Notes: Goals, Progress, Successes
What other ways do coaching notes get used? During the coaching relationship, coaching notes provide the records from which a coach can extract the defined …
Confidentiality
Coaching confidentiality is owed to the client – which is different than to the company or sponsor of the coaching. The ICF provides these definitions …
Record Keeping
When taking notes during a coaching session, if the notes are on a company-owned computer is the information confidential? No. If the notes are sent …
Coaching Techniques as Tools
During coach training so many different techniques and tools are covered that there is information overload. Often participants grasp some of it; they review their …
BOOKS, ARTICLES, AND BLOGS AS COACHING RESOURCES
As a coach, chances are you read – this is naturally a part of staying current in the field plus it means you are continuing …
Assessment Tools in Coaching
Interesting dilemma: coaches do not assess or diagnose. So how do assessments fit with coaching? Sometimes coaches also serve as a consultant or as someone …
Criteria for Choosing a Coaching Business Name
The last 2 blogs illustrated the significance of choosing a suitable name for a coaching business and that it really is a tall order. Bring …
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? …