It’s a very common trait for people to modify or create unique words and ways of speaking. This occurs in any culture, any type of sport, any specific group, and any type of personal or professional setting. One of my...
Category: U #6 – Listens Actively
Focuses on what the client is and is not saying to fully understand what is being communicated in the context of the client systems and to support client self-expression.
Releasing 4th edition of The Upgraded Target Approach!
I’m excited to share the 4th edition of The Upgraded Target Approach, a model of the ICF Core Competencies I first crafted in 2013, updated in 2015 and again in 2020. I initially crafted this model in response to questions...
Hearing how the client wants to use their coaching session
A coaching session has at it’s core, a client-chosen focus and agenda. A professionally trained coach knows to ask their client a fundamental question near the beginning of each session, which gives the client choice about what they want to...
Assisting our coaching client to explore their stories
As a way to attempt to make sense of our experiences, we often create a story about what is happening, or what happened. Stories can be an account of factual events, or how we interpret and recall events. The crafting...
Use client metaphors and visual concepts
We use metaphorical words and visual concepts in everyday speaking, to the point we may not even realize we are, because it is such a natural way of communicating. Someone who says, “I want to grow my skills” in a...
The pursuit of excellence
The Summer Olympic Games in Paris have now concluded. Last week I was on staycation and delightfully binge watched as many events as possible from my sofa in California! My television network (CBS/Peacock) did an excellent job of making every...
Coaching client language of laughs and giggles
During a coaching session, a Professional Coach uses a range of coaching skills, including asking the client clarifying and discovery oriented questions, giving back their summaries or comments to the client, and offering observations, sensing or intuitive thoughts or feelings...
Coaching Client Identity
Especially in recent years, there’s been heightened focus on Identity. Yet Identity has been part of societies for every generation, in all cultures of the world. Whether it’s based in political, religious, racial, gender or age differences (to name a...
The flow of a coaching conversation
A coaching conversation is a conversation with a purpose, being a client-determined topic and outcome for each coaching session. Professional Coaches are trained in how to structure a coaching session, so there is maximum opportunity for the client to gain...
Where Presence and Process intersect
Coaching is a “conversation with a purpose.” That purpose being a client-determined topic and desired outcome about their topic. The process of engaging in a coaching conversation supports a client to clarify their thoughts and feelings, with the intent to...