Creating awareness involves using the direct communication and powerful questioning competencies. At a beginning level of competency, it means generating awareness of new techniques or …
Evaluating CC8 Creating Awareness
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Evaluating CC6 Powerful Questioning
Powerful questioning is a skill developed over time. It begins with questions that are short, simple, and open-ended. Most often the questions start with the …
Evaluating CC5 Active Listening
Active listening is focusing completely on both what a client is saying and is not saying within the context of who they are to gain …
Evaluating CC4 Coaching Presence
Being open, flexible, and confident while fully conscious of the client is the coaching competency of presence. It includes being curious, trusting your instincts, experimenting, …
ICF Competencies Rating Levels
The ICF published a comparison table on their website that provides excellent awareness of the coaching competencies from the perspective of skill development. Specifically, it …
The Importance of Coaching Competencies
Learning and developing coaching competencies is foundational for being a coach. On it’s surface, it demonstrates a respect for the work and for professionalism. More …
Continuing Education for Coaching Competency
After learning coaching competencies, planning for continuing education supports retaining, applying, and enhancing what you learned. Training reinforces what you are doing right, reminds you …
Coaching for Coaches to Enhance Competency
Coaches are advocates of coaching – after all that is the reason they are doing the work. The old expression “what is good for the …
Feedback and 360s of Coaching Competencies
Feedback on coaching competencies creates awareness of skill application. Sometimes our self-evaluation is in keeping with the feedback of others and sometimes we are surprised …
Practice and Experience Coaching Develop Competency
It makes sense that coach training includes coaching. More than that, it makes sense that it includes coaching, being coached, and observing coaching. Ultimately, learning …