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 …
Assessment Tools in Coaching
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Coaching Tools
What tools are helpful to clients, coaches, and the coaching process? Tools include assessments for a fuller understanding and awareness, written information for learning, and …
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? …
The Coaching Identity
One of the things that we as humans use to identify and conduct ourselves in this world (and often take for granted) is our name. …
Coaching Challenges and Solutions 12
What if the stated goal is one a client is ambivalent about? Sometimes companies hire a coach for an employee and that employee is on …
Coaching Challenges and Solutions 11
What if the client blames everyone else? When coaching, the challenge is to shift the focus of the conversation to the future objectives of the …
Coaching Challenges and Solutions 10
Coaches focus on how the client is best served. Sometimes this happens through a coach exploring options for different professional services with the client. Other …
Coaching Challenges and Solutions 9
What if the client would be better served by a therapist? The first challenge with this question is that coaches are not trained to diagnose …
Coaching Challenges and Solutions 8
What if someone wants to be the coach and they have no training? Hundreds of years ago if someone wanted to be a doctor they …