#5 – Active Listening | ICF Credentialing Coach | Mentor Coach | Coach to the Coaches

The What Who and How of Coaching

Every single coaching client (and their corporation) I’ve worked with over the past 21 years wants a result from our coaching. That’s a given in every coaching engagement.

Yet the way we engage with our client makes a huge difference to the results the client might attain from our coaching.

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SEP
2019

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#2 - Establishing the Coaching Agreement, Coaching Mentoring Tips, #5 - Active Listening, #6 - Powerful Questioning

How do I know what my client really wants from their coaching session

From the title of this blog article, you might think that is a no-brainer of a question. Yet clarifying the client-driven coaching session outcome, is one of the most challenging core competencies for most coaches to master.

If you don’t know what the client really wants as an outcome from the ...

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JUN
2019

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Coaching Mentoring Tips, #3 - Establishing Trust and Intimacy, #5 - Active Listening

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 ...

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MAY
2019

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Coaching Mentoring Tips, #4 - Coaching Presence, #5 - Active Listening, #7 - 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 ...

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APR
2019

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MCC Skill, Coaching Mentoring Tips, #4 - Coaching Presence, #5 - Active Listening

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 ...

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FEB
2019

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Coaching Mentoring Tips, #4 - Coaching Presence, #5 - Active Listening, #6 - Powerful Questioning, #8 - Creating Awareness

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

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Coaching Mentoring Tips, #5 - Active Listening, #7 - 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 ...

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DEC
2018

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Coaching Mentoring Tips, #5 - Active Listening, #7 - 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 ...

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NOV
2018

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MCC Skill, Coaching Mentoring Tips, #3 - Establishing Trust and Intimacy, #4 - Coaching Presence, #5 - Active Listening

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 ...

15
OCT
2018

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MCC Skill, Coaching Mentoring Tips, #4 - Coaching Presence, #5 - Active Listening

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, ...

14
SEP
2018

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MCC Skill, ICF Coaching Exam Tips, Coaching Mentoring Tips, #4 - Coaching Presence, #5 - Active Listening