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...
Category: #8 – Creating Awareness
Part 2 – Distinctions on coaching session structure for ICF credential success
To read part 1 of this article, go here Managing Session Progress Once you’ve established the coaching session agreement and invited the client to choose where to start exploring, you use your coaching skills to the best of your level...
From Awareness to Action
From experience, one of the most fulfilling aspects of being a coach is when your client gets in touch with a new insight or emerging awareness. This often comes in the form of one of the following from your client,...
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...
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...
The Power of Offering Observations
As coaches, we have our #1 “Power Tool,” which is our ability to craft open-ended questions, that allow our coaching client to dig deeper into their self-knowledge for what they already know, believe or feel about something they are exploring....
Capture the power of client Aha moments
I want to start with my premise for coaching; being that coaching is a process by which a client determines where they want to be (future), compared to where they are now (present). Most coaching occurs to close the gap...
Allow your client to formulate their own learning and/or consider how they will use new learning
I’ve been seeking to understand more of the PCC Markers at a deeper level, which also provide a solid foundation toward MCC skill level. The core competency of Creating Awareness has a theme of exploring emerging awareness, and/or how the...
Allow space for insights to fully emerge
Besides creating a listening space where your client can speak freely and be truly heard, coaching aims for the client to self-create insight around their presenting situation, and especially about themselves. I think of insight or new awareness as the...
Creating Awareness and links to learning
I’m currently in an inquiry to more deeply understand the Creating Awareness PCC Markers because I notice that these markers are often missing when I assess coaching recordings, and they are also very relevant for MCC skill level. As an...