Have you ever wanted to be a "butterfly" on the wall hanging out (inconspicuously, of course) while an experienced coach is coaching their client? Here's a very rare, unique opportunity to get an insider's peek into the real relationship...
Category: #2 – Establishing the Coaching Agreement
The What Who and How of Coaching
Every single coaching client (and their corporation) Iāve worked with over the past 21 years wants a result from our coaching. Thatās a given in every coaching engagement. Yet the way we engage with our client makes a huge difference...
No gap No coaching
Over a decade ago, I worked for a leadership consulting and coaching company. I was a coach inside an organization where clients had four coaching sessions to integrate and implement concepts from a two-day communications workshop they had attended. Participants...
Part 1 – Distinctions on coaching session structure for ICF credential success
A coaching conversation is a conversation with a purpose. And the purpose of the conversation is ultimately determined by the client. We as the coach may support the client to define or refine the purpose or outcome of the coaching...
The topic is not the client’s agenda
More often than not, a client will come to a coaching session with a particular topic or situation they want to talk through, in order to gain clarity about how they can move forward. What I often notice when I...
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...
What is the gap your coaching client wants to close?
Most often, our clients come to a coaching session with a topic they want to explore. Our initial focus as the coach is to understand exactly what it is about their topic they want more clarity around, in order to...
Coaching as Purposeful Conversation – Part Two
You can read Part One of this blog article here The two documents referred to are the PCC Markers (for Creating the Coaching Agreement) and the MCC information for this competency in the Competencies Comparison Table. In this second part...
Coaching as Purposeful Conversation – Part One
One of the trickiest competencies to demonstrate is establishing the coaching session agreement because it can often feel like a dilemma between being in the flow with the client, and feeling like itās mechanical to discuss a tangible outcome for...
How Partnering Improves Your Coaching Business
On May 14, 2015, I was guest speaker on The Coaching Perspective Radio Show a few hours before I was co-speaker with the fabulousĀ Linda Denton, PCC at the ICF Orange County Chapter meeting on the same topic. I was interviewed...