When taking notes during a coaching session, if the notes are on a company-owned computer is the information confidential? No. If the notes are sent …
Record Keeping
Center for Coaching Certification Skills, Tools and Techniques
Skills Tools and Techniques
Coaching Notes
During coaching sessions, does the coach take notes? Some yes, some no. Do clients take notes? Some yes, some no. What are the reasons? For …
What Does It Really Take to Empower a Coaching Client?
The simple answer is that it takes time, patience, and skill. It is actually easier to give the answer than it is to elicit the …
What If the Client’s Solution is Bad?
OK – push back here – who decides if it is a bad answer? Also, who decides whether a bad answer is worth the learning …
What Happens If the Coach Gives Advice?
To illustrate the answer, start with this story: A client is at risk for losing their job because of nonperformance in a specific area. The …
What If a Client is Stuck – Then Can I Give the Answer?
The funny thing about this question is that we are often too quick to assume that the client is stuck – and they are too. …
Significant Learning in Coach Training
In coach training it is often a discussion of what a coach is NOT that starts the most important paradigm shift from helping by solving …
Challenges to Learning Coaching
When participating in a coach training program, what is the biggest challenge to learning how to coach effectively? The answer comes from 10 years of …
Coaching Techniques as Tools
During coach training so many different techniques and tools are covered that there is information overload. Often participants grasp some of it; they review their …
QUESTIONNAIRES IN COACHING
During coach training it is incredibly valuable to have questionnaires for use during coaching sessions for several reasons: it provides concrete examples of how to …