{"id":5058,"date":"2014-05-26T06:03:47","date_gmt":"2014-05-26T06:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/centerforcoachingcertification.com\/coachingblog\/?p=5058"},"modified":"2022-09-18T17:42:39","modified_gmt":"2022-09-18T17:42:39","slug":"the-language-of-coaching-science-or-art-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/the-language-of-coaching-science-or-art-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"The Language of Coaching: Science or Art? Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.CoachCert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMG_2082.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5059\" src=\"https:\/\/www.CoachCert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMG_2082.jpg\" alt=\"The Language of Coaching: Science or Art? Part 1\" width=\"178\" height=\"178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMG_2082.jpg 178w, https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMG_2082-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMG_2082-60x60.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 178px) 100vw, 178px\" \/><\/a>This blog was published previously on the <a href=\"https:\/\/coachingfederation.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">International Coaching Federation<\/a> blog.<\/p>\n<p>Is coaching language a science or an art? Yes! In other words, based on research and experience, I believe it is both.<\/p>\n<p>Word choice does make a difference. Consider people who are labeled as \u201ctoxic\u201d or conversely as \u201ccharismatic.\u201d How do they express themselves? Their word choices are a key difference.\u00a0 Consider the expertise on linguistics and the brain provided by such experts as David Rock, Linda Page, John Grinder, Richard Bandler, Frank Luntz, Alfred Korzybski, and Noam Chomsky.<\/p>\n<p>For this blog post, I want to provide examples and perspective, then encourage you to figure it out for yourself \u2013 much in keeping with what we all do as coaches.<\/p>\n<p>Ask yourself this question: How can I be the best coach in the world?<\/p>\n<p>Chances are you will explore skill enhancement through study and practice, experience-building opportunities, and how to effectively build and market your services.<\/p>\n<p>Now ask yourself this question: How can I be the best coach for the world?<\/p>\n<p>With this wording you are more likely to consider supporting other coaches and the profession as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>By changing one small word, the direction of your thoughts changed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This blog was published previously on the International Coaching Federation blog. Is coaching language a science or an art? Yes! In other words, based on &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5059,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[70,77,80,115,78,79,76],"class_list":["post-5058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tools-and-techniques","tag-achieve-and-sustain-excellence","tag-client","tag-core-competency","tag-icf-approved-coach-training","tag-rapport","tag-skills","tag-understand","latest_post"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5058","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=5058"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10931,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5058\/revisions\/10931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}