What is the role of the coach when there are sensitive topics? In coaching, sensitive topics are part of the conversation. Consider the ICF definition …
Coaching on Sensitive Topics
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The Challenge: Accountability
When setting goals and planning action steps it often helps to have an accountability partner. Having an accountability partner means you committed to someone else. …
Ideas for Individual Success with Coaching
Coaching provides an average 600% return on investment (ROI). At the same time, there remains a challenge to the integrity of coaching due to the …
The Growth of Coaching
As the coaching profession grows and is formalized, it is worth looking at what is happening and what is possible in the future. At a …
How Trained Coaches Can Educate Untrained Coaches
Is a tennis coach who has played tennis at a high level qualified to coach? In some ways, yes – and in other ways, no. …
How to Get Coach Training
Being a trained, certified coach is critical to the success of both the client and the coach. For the client, a trained coach means a …
Really? A ‘Coach’ Without Specific Training? Part 2
Those who call themselves a ‘coach’ without certified coach training do a disservice to themselves and to their clients. One justification for not going through …
Really? A ‘Coach’ Without Specific Training?
As new fields become professions they move from zero requirements to a defined amount of training along with ethical accountability. As a young profession coaching …
Learning to Coach through the Center for Coaching Certification – Class #3 – Understanding Your Client
Blog series by Joann Evans Joann Evans holds a B.S. in microbiology and chemistry. She is also a certified Paralegal. She has 20 years’ experience …
Learning to Coach through the Center for Coaching Certification – More on Class #2 – Ethics
Blog series by Joann Evans Joann Evans holds a B.S. in microbiology and chemistry. She is also a certified Paralegal. She has 20 years’ experience …