As professionally trained coaches, we learn the important coaching skill of acknowledging the client for their āworkā in the coaching process. However Acknowledging as a Coaching Skill has broader application, as defined in five of the ICF Core Competencies which...
Category: U #2 – Embodies a Coaching Mindset
Develops and maintains a mindset that is open, curious, flexible and client-centered.
MillionQuest™ 7 Realms of Self-Mastery
Many of you have experienced working with Michael Stratford, MCC who is my business partner, my amazing supporter and most importantly my life partner of over two decades (so far). Michael is passionate, authentic, talented, fun, funny, and transformational in...
Keep your Coaching Hat On
Coaching skills are a powerful set of behaviors based in a belief that every person being coached has more wisdom about themselves and their circumstances than they may realize. And that with well-structured questions, and observations, offered to the person...
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...
A learning mindset never ends
Learning a new skill to a higher level of proficiency takes more than just time, practice and repetition; it involves motivation, tenacity, iteration, and consistency of effort. Most often, there are beliefs and habits to be examined and shifted, plus...
Butterfly on the Wall Coaching Series
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...
Some of my learnings from one year of pandemic lockdown
March 13, 2020; I remember it well. The National Basketball Association (NBA) in the United States (where I live) announced that an elite player had tested positive for Covid-19 and stopped all games in the league indefinitely. Almost overnight it...
Falling in love with coaching (again)
I love coaching! Itās been nearly 23 years since I participated in my first 125+ hour professional coaching training program. Iām still as passionate about coaching āskillsā as Iāve ever been, if not more so. Yet many coaches who I...
Coaching out of your mind
On 10/10/2020 (I love to write that date😊) an unseeded player ranked #54 in the world, Iga Swiatek from Poland, defeated the #4 player in the world, Sofia Kenin. In all 7 of Igaās matches that led to her winning...
Coaching emotions and feelings
Have you noticed that your emotions, and the emotions of others, are "raw" in 2020? I imagine you'd think that is a silly question. Yes, of course!Ā That emotions are raw is no surprise as we are globally in circumstances that...