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

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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 …

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 …

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 …

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? …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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. …