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Category: #6 – Powerful Questioning

Train like an Olympian

February 15, 2022March 4, 2022 by Carly Anderson
Train like an Olympian

The Winter Olympic Games 2022 have been underway for about 11 days so far, with about 5 days remaining. Every 4 years feels like a treasure chest to me, watching the best athletes in the world compete against each other...

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The What Who and How of Coaching

September 14, 2019September 7, 2022 by Carly Anderson
The What Who and How of Coaching

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...

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Helicopter coaching views

February 14, 2019July 3, 2025 by Carly Anderson
Helicopter coaching views

I’m always searching for new and interesting ways to describe coaching skills to the coaches I’m mentoring toward their ICF credential. This is one metaphor I’ve used for a while, so thought I’d share it here too. It involves a...

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What is the gap your coaching client wants to close?

January 1, 2017January 7, 2017 by Carly Anderson
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...

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Exploring the nuances of the ICF PCC Markers for Competency #6 ā€œPowerful Questioningā€

June 14, 2016June 15, 2016 by Carly Anderson

By Karen Boskemper, PCC and Co-leader of The Mentor Coaching Group As an ICF Assessor and Mentor Coach, I'm always working with the PCC Markers. As with everything new that we learn, it takes time for our neural pathways to...

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Target these Competencies for Client Success!

September 14, 2015 by Carly Anderson
Target these Competencies for Client Success!

Let’s face it; there’s nothing like receiving some acknowledgement to make you feel good! As coaches and mentors, listening for what we can genuinely acknowledge in our client is an essential skill, one that builds trust and supports the client...

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Group Coaching: how organizations can build a sustainable coaching culture

August 14, 2015August 14, 2015 by Carly Anderson

Have you ever struggled to answer these questions: ā€œWhat is group coaching? How does it differ from individual coaching? What results do you get from group coaching?ā€ Holly Williams of the Magus Group, recently co-authored the book, Being Coached: Group...

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Unconscious Bias in coaching

March 14, 2015March 13, 2015 by Carly Anderson

Written by co-leader of The Mentor Coaching Group, Karen Boskemper, PCC. Here's where you'll find more about Karen. In preparation for a Gender Equality workshop I’ll be leading for a client, I was recently doing some research on biases. I...

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Partnering – the approach that differentiates coaching from other professions

February 14, 2015October 13, 2016 by Carly Anderson

The term ā€˜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...

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The important role of asking closed-ended questions

January 1, 2015January 13, 2015 by Carly Anderson

One of the most powerful ā€˜tools of trade’ available to any coach is the ability to ask questions that provide maximum benefit to the client, so they uncover the knowledge and information they need in order to move forward. Coaches...

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