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...
Category: #2 – Establishing the Coaching Agreement
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...
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 it’s mechanical to discuss a tangible outcome for...
Coaching Session Agreement – Distinctions by Credential
As a mentor coach and ICF Assessor, I hear the positive impact on the client when the coach takes the time to explore and clarify the coaching agreement for the session, and then uses the agreement as their compass through...
How to interrupt your coaching client
Written by guest blogger, Michael Stratford, MCC For more information on Michael, visit his website. Sometimes in a coaching interaction, we need to interrupt the current flow of the client talking in order to update, renew or reinvigorate the focus...
Partnering – the approach that differentiates coaching from other professions
The term ‘partnering’ has become fashionable within the ICF and one that is critically important to understand, if you are seeking to be an effective coach. And it’s a term specifically used in five places in the PCC Markers, for...