{"id":3472,"date":"2012-07-06T06:03:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T06:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/centerforcoachingcertification.com\/coachingblog\/?p=3472"},"modified":"2022-09-18T15:33:35","modified_gmt":"2022-09-18T15:33:35","slug":"coaching-and-client-confidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/coaching-and-client-confidence\/","title":{"rendered":"Coaching and Client Confidence"},"content":{"rendered":"

The client is clearly successful \u2013 they started their own small business five years ago. \u00a0They have successfully expanded operations and now employ four people.\u00a0 The coaching<\/a> focus is marketing.\u00a0 The coach asks the client questions on goals, process, opportunities, time, and budget.\u00a0 Through this process the coach becomes aware that the client is hesitant about business growth.\u00a0 With probing questions it becomes clear that the client lacks confidence in their ability to manage expansion.<\/p>\n

Confidence is a common barrier to success.\u00a0 Sometimes coaching clients are over-confident; frequently coaching clients lack confidence.\u00a0 The interesting thing is that people who lack confidence often come across as very confident.<\/p>\n

As a coach, how do you support the client effectively if confidence is not addressed?\u00a0 A lack of confidence will slow people down and can prevent following through on action steps.\u00a0 How do you address confidence if the client does not bring it up?\u00a0 Ideally through probing and then rephrasing what the client is sharing the coach effectively holds up a mirror so that the client becomes aware.\u00a0 Alternatively, a coach may ask directly based on what the client says.<\/p>\n

In this example, the client realized that they lacked the confidence for expansion.\u00a0 The coach worked with the client on identifying their successes, how they had handled the growth to the current level, and identifying barriers.\u00a0 The coach asked the client how they would overcome barrier.\u00a0 As the confidence of the client grew because of talking it through, the coach asked the client to describe their ideal outcome.\u00a0 The coach<\/a> worked with the client and created a tool that supported building confidence in the long term.\u00a0 As a result of the coaching process, the client expanded their business successfully.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The client is clearly successful \u2013 they started their own small business five years ago. \u00a0They have successfully expanded operations and now employ four people.\u00a0 … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,16],"tags":[70,59,91,77,48,45,50,55,81,88,51,89,84,87],"class_list":["post-3472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-coaching-stories","tag-achieve-and-sustain-excellence","tag-business-2","tag-business-coach","tag-client","tag-coach","tag-coaches","tag-coaching","tag-coaching-services","tag-coaching-success","tag-effective-coaching","tag-excellence","tag-executive-coach","tag-goals","tag-professional-coach","latest_post"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\t\t\n