Interesting dilemma: coaches do not assess or diagnose. So how do assessments fit with coaching? Sometimes coaches also serve as a consultant or as someone …
Assessment Tools in Coaching
Center for Coaching Certification Skills, Tools and Techniques
Skills Tools and Techniques
Coaching Tools
What tools are helpful to clients, coaches, and the coaching process? Tools include assessments for a fuller understanding and awareness, written information for learning, and …
Coaching Certification to Coach the Whole Person
Whole person coaching means that the coach takes time with the client to fully explore what they want in all areas of their life. Even …
The Coaching Business Name
To illustrate the point made in the previous blog post on names, let us see the phenomenon in motion: Do you recognize the following names? …
Coaching Challenges and Solutions 12
What if the stated goal is one a client is ambivalent about? Sometimes companies hire a coach for an employee and that employee is on …
Coaching Challenges and Solutions 11
What if the client blames everyone else? When coaching, the challenge is to shift the focus of the conversation to the future objectives of the …
Coaching Challenges and Solutions 10
Coaches focus on how the client is best served. Sometimes this happens through a coach exploring options for different professional services with the client. Other …
Coaching Challenges and Solutions 9
What if the client would be better served by a therapist? The first challenge with this question is that coaches are not trained to diagnose …
Coaching Challenges and Solutions 8
What if someone wants to be the coach and they have no training? Hundreds of years ago if someone wanted to be a doctor they …
Coaching Challenges and Solutions 7
What if the client fails to follow through? When a client fails to follow through, the first step is to ask what held them back. …