When you ask people what their biggest barrier to success is, how often will they respond with, “me”? What is it that has us limiting …
The Challenge: Shift from Limiting to Creating Possibilities
The Challenge: Shift from Aggressive to Assertive
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 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 …
Visuals or Info-graphics as Coaching Tools
Given that 40% of people are primarily visual and many more are secondarily so, visuals, diagrams, or info-graphics are great tools for coaches. As an …
Inventories as a Coaching Tool
While assessments are validated tools intended to provide a depth of insight, inventories are a tool that can be created or tailored specifically for coaching …