There are two things I absolutely love to participate with regularly that reflect core values of mine: Bikram Yoga, and swimming in warm ocean water. These are among my favorite activities (along with watching high-performance athletes in action, and hanging...
Category: Coaching Mentoring Tips
Listen for your client’s learning style to build deeper trust
Building trust with our coaching client is a critical skill to master. For those familiar with The Target Approach, you know that I consider building trust and intimacy to be an âOutputâ competency, because trust is built as a result...
Holding the Space for a Client
As a mentor coach and ICF Assessor, I find myself often giving coaches feedback on âallowing more space for the clientâ or âholding the space for the client.â It struck me that this statement is pretty nebulous so what does...
Coaching Session Agreement – Distinctions by Credential
As a mentor coach and ICF Assessor, I hear the positive impact on the client when the coach takes the time to explore and clarify the coaching agreement for the session, and then uses the agreement as their compass through...
Coaching Presence – slow down to speed up
The world is a busy place! We are constantly âonâ with our smartphone technology, even 24/7! If you work in an organization, youâre likely to be busy, busy, busy just getting work done each day. If you work in a...
What listening to coaching in other languages has taught me
I'm not an idealist. I donât want to save the world. I recognize there are gross inequalities in the world, where innocent people are the victims of horrible crimes and abuses, and we could do with a lot more compassion...
Unconscious Bias in coaching
Written by co-leader of The Mentor Coaching Group, Karen Boskemper, PCC. Here's where you'll find more about Karen. In preparation for a Gender Equality workshop Iâll be leading for a client, I was recently doing some research on biases. I...
How to interrupt your coaching client
Written by guest blogger, Michael Stratford, MCC For more information on Michael, visit his website. Sometimes in a coaching interaction, we need to interrupt the current flow of the client talking in order to update, renew or reinvigorate the focus...
Partnering – the approach that differentiates coaching from other professions
The term âpartneringâ has become fashionable within the ICF and one that is critically important to understand, if you are seeking to be an effective coach. And itâs a term specifically used in five places in the PCC Markers, for...
The important role of asking closed-ended questions
One of the most powerful âtools of tradeâ available to any coach is the ability to ask questions that provide maximum benefit to the client, so they uncover the knowledge and information they need in order to move forward. Coaches...