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Being a Confident Coach

Being a Confident Coach

A successful coaching engagement occurs when the coach and client are both confident in the coach, confident in the coaching process, and confident in the client. Being a Confident Coach

What does each type of confidence entail?

  • Confidence in the Coach:
    • The coach being confident in who they are, what they offer, and how they offer it is essential. It makes sense that the coach training, which includes learning coaching ethics, developing competencies, and learning process is a great foundation.  From there, using what is learned is essential.  This starts with using your own affirmation story and extends to using the tools, techniques, and processes learned.
    • When the coach is confident in themselves, it will show for the client. This in turn supports the client being confident in the coach.
  • Confidence in the Coaching Process:
    • One of the biggest paradigm shifts for many while in coach training is moving from being the expert with the answer to being the process expert with the questions. When the coach embodies a coaching mindset, they stay true to their role as coach.  This means instead of thinking they need to advise or train, they recognize that the coaching process is the best way for the client to discover their own answer and develop their own strategies for moving forward.
    • When the client is confident in the coaching process, they engage fully. Openly sharing and exploring moves them forward to strategizing and planning which supports their success.
  • Confidence in the Client:
    • A coach is trained to hold the client as fully capable. This means the coach moving past being the expert to truly eliciting ideas, strategies, and solutions from the client.  The coach knows the client can find their own answer and follow through.
    • The client confidence in themselves supports them finding their answers and following through. This is the reason the affirmation story taught as part of the coaching process is so essential.

Coach training provides the process and the tools to support confidence.  Successfully applying what you learned supports client success.

 

Cathy Liska

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Most blog posts here are written or curated by Cathy Liska, Guide from the Side®, CDP, MCC.

Cathy is CEO/Founder of the Center for Coaching Certification, CCC. As Guide from the Side®, she is a sought-after trainer and coach with over 30 years of experience in business management and ownership. Cathy built her diverse team at CCC that includes trainers, customer service, and coaches. She was Co-Leader for ICF’s Ethics Community of Practice, on the Leadership Team for the review and updating of the Code of Ethics in 2024, and active in the Ethics Water Cooler. To ensure she stays current in related areas of expertise, Cathy has earned the following: ICF’s Master Certified Coach (MCC), Certified Coach Trainer, Certified Consumer Credit Counselor, Certificate of Excellence in Nonprofit Leadership and Management, Grief Support Group Facilitator, Certified in the Drucker Self-Assessment Tool, Certified Apartment Manager, Certified Civil and Family Mediator, and Certified in DISC.

Cathy’s clients range from attorneys to corporate executives, government to nonprofit, entrepreneurs to children, under or unemployed to newly retired. She specializes in communication, management, conflict, and leadership. Her personal mission statement is “People.” Cathy is known for her passion to serve others so they achieve the results they want.

Podcast: https://www.coachcert.com/podcast.html

Publications: Coaching Perspectives (a series of books with chapters by coach training graduates) https://www.coachcert.com/resources/recommended-reading/coaching-perspectives-series-by-the-center-for-coaching-certification-and-more.html

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