Consider all the various service-based professionals: attorneys, financial planners, doctors, mental health professionals, human resource professionals, trainers, educators, and consultants to name some. In each …
Review How Coaching is Unique
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Review of Positive versus Negative
In many different fields having negative people call attention to certain facts or factors can be helpful. At the same time being negative means focusing …
Coaching is a Top Personal Competency
Ask a few people you know what holds them back from achieving what they want and the most common response you are likely to get …
Coaching is a Top Workplace Competency
Here is a challenge for you: go online and search what skills are sought by employers and their recruiters. You will find the various articles …
Coaching: Be Comfortable Being Uncomfortable
In the ICF Comparison Table on how coaching competencies are evaluated, the information includes these statements: Establishing Trust and Intimacy with the Client – Coach …
Coaching on Sensitive Topics
What is the role of the coach when there are sensitive topics? In coaching, sensitive topics are part of the conversation. Consider the ICF definition …
Personal Health Coaching
What happens if someone wants to discuss health challenges? Often times individuals working with a coach for health challenges find a coach specializing in that …
Money Coaching
How is money a factor for coaching clients? In addition to the obvious answer of coaching being an investment of money, many decisions clients make …
Coaching is Coaching
What if a coach wants to give advice or their client asks for advice? During coach training participants learn a significant reason coaching has such …
Be Proactive
To be proactive means influencing outcomes or making them happen through action. It involves thinking ahead in terms of what is happening, choosing what you …