Answering, telling, and advising are easy in comparison to the skill and patience required for empowering. Coach training is all about empowering others to achieve. …
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Telling Limits
During coach training the biggest paradigm shift for many is that instead of giving advice, helping means empowering people to discover their own answers. In …

Coaching is a Privilege
Coaching is a privilege. Yes, it does involve developing skills through coach training and working hard. It is a privilege because I partner with my …

Conflict Mediation and Training were Steps on My Journey to Coaching
Coach training has much in common with mediation training and other soft skills training: the training provides information with the goal of truly empowering others …

How to Create Change
(from Coaching Perspectives V – 11 of 11) Start by asking yourself these questions about what you want: What does saying it like that mean? …

The Challenging Client Gets Results – Now What?
(from Coaching Perspectives V – 10 of 11) As a result of the work coming out of the coaching relationship, Brendan was seeing the results …

The Coaching Journey with a Challenging Client Continues
(from Coaching Perspectives V – 9 of 11) At the end of their fifth coaching session Rachael asked Brendan what he was gaining through coaching. …

Coaching the Challenging Client
(from Coaching Perspectives V – 8 of 11) Brendan was aware that Kevin was making changes, saw improvements in his already good family life, and …

Language and Focus for Creating Meaningful Change
(from Coaching Perspectives V – 7 of 11) The car dealership where Brendan and Kevin worked became increasingly proactive in employee development. They offered training …

Positive versus Negative
(from Coaching Perspectives V – 6 of 11) Move now to the personal lives of the brothers and reflect on how their thoughts over …
