{"id":7332,"date":"2017-03-20T11:00:07","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T11:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/centerforcoachingcertification.com\/coachingblog\/?p=7332"},"modified":"2023-03-29T15:57:45","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T15:57:45","slug":"understanding-your-client","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/understanding-your-client\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding Your Client"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"understanding<\/a>By Pete Liska <\/em>https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/peteliska\/<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

When coaching, you are asking many questions to keep your client moving forward, moving towards something.\u00a0 If you don\u2019t understand your client, how can you help him or her move forward?\u00a0 As a coach, listening deeply to your client directly supports understanding your client. It also provides clues to who the client is, how they think, and how they make decisions.<\/p>\n

The Center for Coaching Certification\u2019s Certified Professional Coach (CPC) coach training includes a class on personality types<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 Here you are introduced to both how to be present in the moment to identify personality type and how to work with the different personality types.\u00a0 Having the ability to identify and adjust to different personalities will go a long way in better understanding your client.<\/p>\n

A quick overview of the CPC class<\/a> includes the following considerations: Emotion or Logic and Passive or Aggressive.\u00a0 \u00a0These are paired into Pleaser (Emotion and Passive), Celebrator (Emotion and Aggressive), Investigator (Logic and Passive) and Achiever (Logic and Aggressive).\u00a0 When you complete the coaching certification you will know how to recognize these types in the moment plus have a good understanding of the Do\u2019s and Don\u2019ts when communicating with them.\u00a0 This understanding and then flexing to the client in turn leads directly to being present to who they are and also effectively developing rapport.<\/p>\n

Everyone has different personality styles and most people are more than one personality type, usually a primary and a secondary style. \u00a0In this blog series, I\u2019ll give some examples of these personality types and how to interact with them to gain a better understanding and increase clarity during conversations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Pete Liska https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/peteliska\/ When coaching, you are asking many questions to keep your client moving forward, moving towards something.\u00a0 If you don\u2019t understand your … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7427,"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":[131,471,40],"tags":[464,116,119,465,77,48,85,45,50,54,86,88,118,466,463,462,115,134,117,79],"class_list":["post-7332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coaching-program","category-coaching-skills","category-tools-and-techniques","tag-business-coach-certification","tag-business-coach-training","tag-career-coach-certification","tag-career-coach-training","tag-client","tag-coach","tag-coach-training","tag-coaches","tag-coaching","tag-coaching-business","tag-coaching-certification","tag-effective-coaching","tag-executive-coach-certification","tag-executive-coach-training","tag-health-coach-certification","tag-health-coach-training","tag-icf-approved-coach-training","tag-life-coach-training","tag-life-coaching-certification","tag-skills","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