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Category: #7 – Direct Communication

Curiosity and Interrupting the client are like oil and water

May 17, 2019May 17, 2019 by Carly Anderson
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...

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Normalizing Conflict

January 14, 2019January 16, 2019 by Carly Anderson
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 ā€˜winner’ and a loser’ mentality. Maybe some people enjoy conflict, yet for the majority of people,...

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Coaching is like playing tennis…

December 15, 2018January 14, 2019 by Carly Anderson
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...

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Distinctions on observations comments and intuitions

August 14, 2018August 27, 2018 by Carly Anderson
Distinctions on observations comments and intuitions

May I make an observation? Who is willing to say no? Anyone? My observation is when this question is asked of a coaching client, they don't say no. So what is the purpose of saying this rather than just making...

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Effective use of visual language

July 14, 2018July 14, 2018 by Carly Anderson

Imagine you are walking down a path with beautiful trees on either side. The sun is shining through the trees, creating a soft glow of light on the path ahead. There’s a puddle and you easily jump over it. As...

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Speech is Silver and Silence is Golden

August 14, 2017August 21, 2017 by Carly Anderson
Speech is Silver and Silence is Golden

You may have heard the saying, ā€œSilence is Golden.ā€ When I did some research on this saying, I found that it is a part of a saying that goes, ā€œSpeech is silver and silence is golden.ā€ In many cultures or...

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Simplify Simplify Simplify

May 14, 2017May 14, 2017 by Carly Anderson

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...

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The Power of Offering Observations

January 15, 2017February 12, 2017 by Carly Anderson
The Power of Offering Observations

As coaches, we have our #1 ā€œPower Tool,ā€ 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....

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Creating Awareness and links to learning

May 14, 2016May 13, 2016 by Carly Anderson
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...

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Coach the Emotional Content of your Client

December 14, 2015 by Carly Anderson

One of the most powerful distinctions I can offer coaches I’m mentoring toward MCC skill level, is to coach the whole human being (the Who) and especially the emotional content of their client. Emotion is what drives us as human...

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