What if a coach wants to give advice or their client asks for advice? During coach training participants learn a significant reason coaching has such …
Coaching is Coaching
skills
Be Proactive
To be proactive means influencing outcomes or making them happen through action. It involves thinking ahead in terms of what is happening, choosing what you …
A Habit of Action
It is often too easy to get into a habit of doing the same things at the same times. It is easy to get stuck …
Creating the Shift
Coaching is a great tool for creating a shift from procrastinating or being reactive to taking action and being proactive. Coach training highlights the importance …
Get it Right versus Get it Done
Sometimes people prefer to focus primarily on getting things right (35% of the population) and sometimes people prefer to focus primarily on getting things done …
The Challenge: Shift from a Focus on Don’t Want to Do Want
Imagine going to a travel agent and asking them to book a vacation. When the travel agent asks where to and the answer is a …
The Challenge: Shifting from Negative to Positive
The International Coaching Federation modeled being positive for all coaches and coach training programs when, in updating the Code of Ethics, they intentionally changed to …
Process Tools
When coaching, clients are often working on how they will complete specific things. Sometimes it is tracking their own work or all the work of …
Inventories as a Coaching Tool
While assessments are validated tools intended to provide a depth of insight, inventories are a tool that can be created or tailored specifically for coaching …
Leading = Coaching
First and foremost, at a very basic level, being a leader or developing leadership means developing personal awareness and self-management first, and then learning and …