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 …
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Coaching Agreement
A written coaching agreement outlines the parameters of the coaching relationship. It is foundational to building an effective coaching engagement. A Coaching Agreement includes exploring …
Using Coaching Techniques
Through the story of one client, this blog series demonstrates the application of various tools and techniques from coach training. The client in this story …
Setting the Foundation for Engaging Coaching Clients
The Core Competencies of a Coach as defined by the International Coach Federation, ICF, are organized in four areas. Through coach training, these competencies are …
Career Coaching
Here is an example of a career coaching engagement using models, processes, and the coaching competencies. Envision a career coaching opportunity. Sometimes the challenge is …
Co-Create the Coaching Relationship
The competencies of Establishing Trust and Intimacy with the Coachee plus Coaching Presence build on your ethics and agreement with a focus on adjusting your …
Setting the Foundation
At the Center for Coaching Certification, students learn that the competencies of Meeting Ethical Guidelines and Professional Standards plus Establishing the Coaching Agreement call for …
How to Start a Coaching Business
As silly as it sounds, it is important to say that before you start a coaching business, become a coach. Initial training is often a …
Be Clear on Coaching versus Other Services
Most coaches start their coach training after working in other fields. Often they start with offering coaching in conjunction with other work or services. Consider …
Use and Promote the Code of Ethics
By Pete Liska https://www.linkedin.com/in/peteliska/ The ICF has a well-established and developed Code of Ethics in place for all coaching professionals. The ICF’s Code of Ethics …