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Being a Respectful Coach

By Cathy Liska What does it mean to be respectful as a coach? Respect includes respecting yourself and respecting others. Respect means caring about how …

What is Required to be a Coach?

What is Required to be a Coach? By Pete Liska https://www.linkedin.com/in/peteliska/ Technically and legally, almost anyone can call themselves a coach. Some individuals do call …

What Can a Coach Fix?

What Can a Coach Fix? By Pete Liska https://www.linkedin.com/in/peteliska/ To answer the question, “What can coaching fix?” start by understanding what a coach is and …

The Respect of Being Clear and Direct

The Respect of Being Clear and Direct By Cathy Liska How often is miscommunication or misunderstanding creating challenges? How often have you wondered what someone …

The Gift of Listening

The Gift of Listening By Cathy Liska Listening, really listening, is a gift. How often do you want that gift? How often do you give …

By Pete Liska https://www.linkedin.com/in/peteliska/ Clear, direct language is respectful and a coaching competency. During coach training for my Certified Professional Coach certification, we learned say …

Coaching Questions

By Pete Liska https://www.linkedin.com/in/peteliska/ During coach training with the Center for Coaching Certification (CCC), we reviewed different types of questions and were given specific tips …

V-A-K and Coaching

By Pete Liska https://www.linkedin.com/in/peteliska/ First, what is/are V-A-K? V = Visual, A = Auditory, K = Kinesthetic. These refer to learning styles. A visual learner …

Limiting Language

By Pete Liska https://www.linkedin.com/in/peteliska/ Because we all process so much information we have learned ways to manage the information. This is helpful on a day-to-day …

Goal Setting

By Pete Liska https://www.linkedin.com/in/peteliska/ During coach training an example was given as follows: Imagine going to a travel agent and asking them to book your …