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 …
Summaries of Coaching Notes: Goals, Progress, Successes
Code of Ethics
Providing Coaching Notes
What are the benefits for the client of the coach providing notes with the client? The notes mean the client has an overview of the …
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 Notes
During coaching sessions, does the coach take notes? Some yes, some no. Do clients take notes? Some yes, some no. What are the reasons? For …
What Does It Really Take to Empower a Coaching Client?
The simple answer is that it takes time, patience, and skill. It is actually easier to give the answer than it is to elicit the …
What If the Client’s Solution is Bad?
OK – push back here – who decides if it is a bad answer? Also, who decides whether a bad answer is worth the learning …
What Happens If the Coach Gives Advice?
To illustrate the answer, start with this story: A client is at risk for losing their job because of nonperformance in a specific area. The …
What If a Client is Stuck – Then Can I Give the Answer?
The funny thing about this question is that we are often too quick to assume that the client is stuck – and they are too. …
Significant Learning in Coach Training
In coach training it is often a discussion of what a coach is NOT that starts the most important paradigm shift from helping by solving …