When someone is externally motivated it means their actions serve what someone else wants or they are avoiding a consequence. External motivation gets a short …
The Challenge: Shift from Externally Motivated to Internally Motivated
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The Challenge: Shift from Reactive to Proactive
Sometimes, when coaching, a client is reacting to circumstances instead of planning intentionally. As a coach, part of the process expertise learned in coaching certification …
The Challenge: Shifting from Negative to Positive
The International Coaching Federation modeled being positive for all coaches and coach training programs when, in updating the Code of Ethics, they intentionally changed to …
Process Tools
When coaching, clients are often working on how they will complete specific things. Sometimes it is tracking their own work or all the work of …
Visuals or Info-graphics as Coaching Tools
Given that 40% of people are primarily visual and many more are secondarily so, visuals, diagrams, or info-graphics are great tools for coaches. As an …
Inventories as a Coaching Tool
While assessments are validated tools intended to provide a depth of insight, inventories are a tool that can be created or tailored specifically for coaching …
Coaching Tools
Coaching certification programs provide tools for their student coaches to use. As their coach training advances, student coaches acquire more tools and also learn to …
Leading = Coaching
First and foremost, at a very basic level, being a leader or developing leadership means developing personal awareness and self-management first, and then learning and …
Coaching: A Tool of Choice for Leaders
When you review the definitions and articles on leaders and leadership the overlap with coaching skills is evident. Coach training develops leadership skills and leaders. …
What is Next in Coaching
As professions are defined and developed there is a growth process involving the development of ethics and standards. Once the standards are established the profession …