More often than not, a client will come to a coaching session with a particular topic or situation they want to talk through, in order to gain clarity about how they can move forward. What I often notice when I...
Category: Coaching Mentoring Tips
Types of trust in a coaching relationship
Note: This article has been updated in 2023. When we engage in coach training, we often hear the idea that our client has all the answers within them and our role is to help them get in touch with those...
Exploring Client Behaviors
I’ve uncovered a blind spot, which I always find exciting! Because it’s often challenging to notice a blind spot in ourselves. Others most often can see in us what we cannot. The blind spot was uncovered as a result of...
Speech is Silver and Silence is Golden
Note: This article has been updated in 2023. You may have heard the saying, “Silence is Golden.” When researched this saying, I found it is a part of a saying that goes, “Speech is silver and silence is golden.” In...
Creating Awareness at MCC Skill Level
Earlier this week, I presented a version of this information in one of the MCC Mentor Coaching Group Programs I’m leading, and thought it might be useful to share with you. The distinctions are aimed toward MCC skill level, yet...
Coach the ‘little Who’ of your client
In my mentoring of coaches toward their MCC, PCC or ACC credential, I make the distinction about coaching the “Who” versus coaching the “What” of your client. In a recent group mentoring session, I was again making this distinction when...
Simplify Simplify Simplify
As coaches, we are oriented to helping our clients to become the best version of themselves, to believing in their capabilities, and to support in their confidence to achieve what it is they are seeking to. One of the temptations...
Are you leading your coaching client?
One of the things that distinguishes coaching from other modalities such as teaching, training, and consulting, is the agenda is client-driven. The client chooses the focus of what to be coached on in every session. The coach seeks to understand that...
Ways to conclude a coaching engagement
Coaching is a process that has a starting point, and eventually an ending point. I’ve previously written about how to create a coaching development plan and recommend reading that article in conjunction with this one. The purpose of any coaching engagement...
The (Incredible) value of checking in
This article was first published in ICF Coaching World, Issue 21. If you'd like to read it there, or access the incredible resources in the publication, you can access it here (it may take awhile to download). You can read...