Strong coach training focuses on more than theory with specific tools, techniques, and processes that help clients create the change they want. You learn skills …
Key Skills You Learn in Coach Training for High-Value Coaching
active listening
The Skills and Qualifications to Be a Coach
To embark on a successful coaching career, it’s imperative to possess certain skills and qualifications that will set you apart and guide you towards professional …
Coaching as a Skill Set in the Workplace
In today’s competitive work environment, fostering growth and efficiency is crucial. One-way organizations achieve these goals is through effective coaching. Coaching in the workplace is …
Building a Coaching Culture
To build a coaching culture, organizations must invest in training managers to become effective coaches. Managers are to be equipped with coaching skills, such as …
What Skills Are Most Important in Great Leaders?
From the ability to give credit to leaders who are crafty problem-solvers with innovative solutions, here are 15 answers to the question, “What is one …
C.O.A.C.H.I.N.G.
By Cathy Liska Whether seeking to understand coaching, getting started as a coach, or further refining advanced coaching skills, acronyms are an easy way to …
Listening Skills
There are many ways we listen, and we can improve our listening skills. Start with an awareness of your own tendencies. Common is hearing something …
Communicating Effectively for Engaging Coaching Clients
Hopefully you are realizing from the previous two blogs that the Core Competencies of a Coach are also skills that serve to engage new coaching …
Communication
Active Listening, Powerful Questioning, and Direct Communication are skills many have studied and at the same time, in coaching, the application is different. The irony …
Note-taking and Coaching Competencies
Note-taking and Coaching Competencies By Cathy Liska (Note: The ICF Core Competencies have been updated since publication of this blog) As a surface level consideration, …