I have a very sweet memory of me at around age 8, being a ballerina in some local play. I donāt remember the details, just the feeling of dancing around in a floaty fairy-like costume, often pointing my toes in...
Category: ICF Core Competencies
Part 2 – Distinctions on coaching session structure for ICF credential success
To read part 1 of this article, go here Managing Session Progress Once youāve established the coaching session agreement and invited the client to choose where to start exploring, you use your coaching skills to the best of your level...
Flossing the mind
For many coaches, recording coaching sessions to submit to the ICF can bring up anxiety and stress-filled thoughts, and scary feelings of inadequacy. This is ānormal'; we are exposed to school exams in childhood, and we are either an A...
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...
Exploring Client Behaviors
Iāve uncovered a blind spot, which I always find exciting! Because itās often challenging to notice a blind spot in ourselves. Others most often can see in us what we cannot. The blind spot was uncovered as a result of...
Creating Awareness at MCC Skill Level
Earlier this week, I presented a version of this information in one of the MCC Mentor Coaching Group Programs Iām leading, and thought it might be useful to share with you. The distinctions are aimed toward MCC skill level, yet...
Coach the ‘little Who’ of your client
In my mentoring of coaches toward their MCC, PCC or ACC credential, I make the distinction about coaching the āWhoā versus coaching the āWhatā of your client. In a recent group mentoring session, I was again making this distinction when...
Simplify Simplify Simplify
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...
Are you leading your coaching client?
One of the things that distinguishes coaching from other modalities such as teaching, training, and consulting, is the agenda is client-driven. The client chooses the focus of what to be coached on in every session.Ā The coach seeks to understand that...
Ways to conclude a coaching engagement
Coaching is a process that has a starting point, and eventually an ending point. Iāve previously written about how to create a coaching development planĀ and recommend reading that article in conjunction with this one. The purpose of any coaching engagement...