{"id":3154,"date":"2012-01-06T06:03:37","date_gmt":"2012-01-06T06:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.centerforcoachingcertification.com\/coachingblog\/?p=3154"},"modified":"2022-09-18T15:53:45","modified_gmt":"2022-09-18T15:53:45","slug":"achieve-and-sustain-excellence-in-coaching-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/achieve-and-sustain-excellence-in-coaching-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Achieve and Sustain Excellence in Coaching 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An excellent relationship between the coach\u00a0and the client creates the opportunity for excellence in the coaching process.\u00a0 Coaching sessions are an exercise in communication.\u00a0 The client does most of the talking while the coach listens and asks questions.<\/p>\n<p>In this blog series on excellence, developing and enhancing core\u00a0 competencies and skills included creating your list of skills.\u00a0 On the list are listening and powerful questioning.\u00a0 During a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coaching.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">coaching<\/a> session, these<br \/>\nare the main skills you utilize.\u00a0 After a coaching session, reflect on how well you listened and understood.\u00a0 Review the questions you asked and how you will enhance your questions moving forward.<\/p>\n<p>Through your questions as a coach, the client explores possibilities and considers their options.\u00a0 Questions that are short, simple, and open-ended are most powerful because the client chooses priorities, focus, and direction.\u00a0 Questions serve as a tool to partner in challenging ideas, opening the thinking, and discovering new opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>After exploring, empower your client to decide on their strategy and create a plan of action to implement it.\u00a0 Ask questions so your client pins down how and when they will take each action step.\u00a0 Ensure the strategy is realistic and achievable.\u00a0 Excellence is an ongoing process so follow-up consistently with your coaching client on their action steps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An excellent relationship between the coach\u00a0and the client creates the opportunity for excellence in the coaching process.\u00a0 Coaching sessions are an exercise in communication.\u00a0 The &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[77,48,50,80,79],"class_list":["post-3154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-client","tag-coach","tag-coaching","tag-core-competency","tag-skills","latest_post"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3154"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10872,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3154\/revisions\/10872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}