As coaches, we are hired to support our client to achieve their desired outcomes. Coaching is a partnership where the client brings knowledge about themselves, their circumstances, their strengths, hopes, fears, beliefs, mindset, and their life in general. The client...
Category: #7 – Direct Communication
The coaching skill of requests
A skill that coaches often use with clients is making a Request, which is based on the coach hearing or perceiving something that would be of use for the client to consider doing. The ICF core competencies of Direct Communication...
Why direct communication is an essential coaching competency
Once upon a time when coaching was still very new as a profession, there was the belief that asking curious questions was the only real coaching skill. While asking questions that are potentiallly powerful for the client is still...