An aggressive communicator easily expresses their opinion. It is natural for aggressive communicators to advocate for their own ideas. An aggressive communicator easily expresses their …
The Challenge: Shift from Aggressive to Assertive
Center for Coaching Certification Skills, Tools and Techniques
Skills Tools and Techniques
The Challenge: Shift from Passive to Assertive
A passive communicator is someone who waits for others to speak first. Often a passive communicator will refrain from saying anything and then, perhaps later, …
The Challenge: Shift from a Focus on Don’t Want to Do Want
Imagine going to a travel agent and asking them to book a vacation. When the travel agent asks where to and the answer is a …
The Challenge: Shift from Externally Motivated to Internally Motivated
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 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 …
How Important Are Action Steps?
During coach training participants practice their coaching. Often an inherent part of the practice coaching involves asking the client what they are going to do …
Types of Assessments and Inventories
During coach training it is fun to learn from others what assessment tools they are familiar with and value. During advanced coaching certification exploring ideas …
Assessments or Inventory?
Coach training is intended to develop coaching competencies. Many coaches engage in training on assessment tools and then also offer the assessments to help create …