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Curiosity and Interrupting the client are like oil and water

I’m often asked by my mentor coaching clients, how to stop clients who speak a lot, including if, how and when to interrupt a client.

That’s a great inquiry!

Here are some of my thoughts and different ideas, which have evolved over my years of coaching. This article is ...

17
MAY
2019

6

Active Listening, Coaching Mentoring Tips, Coaching Presence, Direct Communication

Improv-ing to better coaching skills

I wasn’t sure what I was going to write in this blog article. I had a general idea, and I trust the process of starting to type into a Word Document, with the intention of writing a short article that provides value to those coaches who read it.

I thought of ...

15
APR
2019

5

Active Listening, Coaching Mentoring Tips, Coaching Presence, MCC Skill

Vacation Empathy Trust and Connection

You may be wondering what a photo of an idyllic, remote, small Tahitian island resort has to do with empathy, trust and connection!

This time last week, my husband and I were on vacation in this idyllic location and I took this photo from my kayak. It was truly the best island vacation I’ve ...

15
MAR
2019

2

Coaching Mentoring Tips, Coaching Presence, Establishing Trust and Intimacy

Helicopter coaching views

I’m always searching for new and interesting ways to describe coaching skills to the coaches I’m mentoring toward their ICF credential.

This is one metaphor I’ve used for a while, so thought I’d share it here too. It involves a helicopter and the different views it offers us depending on our coaching skills ...

14
FEB
2019

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Active Listening, Coaching Mentoring Tips, Coaching Presence, Creating Awareness, Powerful Questioning

Normalizing Conflict

Hands up anyone who enjoys being in conflict with someone? Conflict is a serious disagreement or argument with someone where there is often a ‘winner’ and a loser’ mentality. Maybe some people enjoy conflict, yet for the majority of people, we do not have a good experience of being in conflict with another person.

14
JAN
2019

4

Active Listening, Coaching Mentoring Tips, Direct Communication

Coaching is like playing tennis…

I’ve recently been using this metaphor with mentoring clients, to convey how a coach engages with their client.

Metaphor is a direct form of communication, as it cuts through a lot of words and mental churn.

Through metaphor, our client connects more holistically to an internal picture that has movement, feeling, energy and sound. It’s a fully immersive ...

15
DEC
2018

2

Active Listening, Coaching Mentoring Tips, Direct Communication

Strategies for coaching verbal processor clients

I’m pretty sure every coach has had a client who speaks a lot. And then speaks a lot more. And then some. You may have heard the term ‘verbal processor’ used to describe such people.

I understand there may be learning styles and brain wiring that is at play. I’m not going to address ...

14
NOV
2018

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Active Listening, Coaching Mentoring Tips, Coaching Presence, Establishing Trust and Intimacy, MCC Skill

Surrendering the mind

There’s a paradox present for coaches; simultaneously to know and practice good coaching skills, and yet not knowing how those coaching skills will best serve our client, in this coaching session.

I’m working from the premise that we believe that as a coach, our job is to serve our client. What that ...

15
OCT
2018

0

Active Listening, Coaching Mentoring Tips, Coaching Presence, MCC Skill

Why am I still writing?

When I first began coaching 20 years ago, I was like every other new coach; trying to figure out how to use questions as a main way of drawing out knowledge from my client. This was so different than the consulting work I was doing, where I was paid for my expertise, therefore ...