In our mentoring program, The Mentor Coaching Group, we focus on teaching coaches the importance of Establishing the Coaching Agreement (ICF Core Competency #2). In fact, this competency is so vital to master that Carly has created an extensive product...
Category: #2 – Establishing the Coaching Agreement
Applying the fundamental coaching model
Coaches I'm mentoring often ask me how to demonstrate the ICF Core Competency of Planning & Goal Setting in a coaching session. Well here's how, and it's simple! When I’m listening to a coaching session as an ICF Assessor for...
What Expertise Does a Coach Need?
Clients who hire a coach to support them create their next level of success often look for a coach who is like them, meaning they want someone who has experience in their industry, or has been a CEO like them,...
Ways a Coach completes a session
My last blog article was on “When a coaching session really begins.” In this article, I want to address the ways a coach completes a coaching session with their client. Here are five of the main ICF core competencies most...
When a Coaching Session Really Begins
A coaching session is a structured conversation so both coach and client know that this is a coaching conversation that has a purpose, versus just having a nice conversation. There’s a definite beginning and an ending to a coaching session,...
Be attentive to your clients agenda
I think that every coach would agree that we are hired to support our clients to discover and achieve what they want, and find their way to implement their ideas, not our way or our ideas. This empowers our client...
What’s the focus for this coaching session?
A coaching session is different from a conversation with a friend or colleague because it has a specific purpose. Not every conversation has a purpose. It is the responsibility of the coach to help the client to get the most...