{"id":7369,"date":"2017-08-24T11:05:22","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T11:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/centerforcoachingcertification.com\/coachingblog\/?p=7369"},"modified":"2017-07-21T15:58:45","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T15:58:45","slug":"v-a-k-and-coaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/v-a-k-and-coaching\/","title":{"rendered":"V-A-K and Coaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Pete Liska <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/peteliska\/\"><em>https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/peteliska\/<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>First, what is\/are V-A-K?\u00a0 V = Visual, A = Auditory, K = Kinesthetic.\u00a0 These refer to learning styles.\u00a0 A visual learner is seeing or imagining a picture when choosing what to say or how to answer a question.\u00a0 An auditory learner is recalling or creating the sound of what they will say.\u00a0 A kinesthetic learner is remembering or exploring feelings.\u00a0 We all use all three learning styles; we each have primary, secondary, and tertiary learning style.<\/p>\n<p>During my coach training with the Center for Coaching Certification\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/training\/certified-professional-coach\/program-overview.html\">Certified Professional Coach program<\/a>, we explored how recognizing and adjusting to V-A-K helps in coaching:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>by adjusting to a client\u2019s preferred learning style it is easier for the client to understand what is said or asked,<\/li>\n<li>it is more comfortable for the client when the pace of speech is similar and this builds rapport,<\/li>\n<li>and when a client fully describes what they want using all three styles the full description makes it real and they are more motivated to achieve it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Experiment with this yourself.\u00a0 When you are in a conversation adjust your pace to the other persons and use similar words.\u00a0 When you are talking with someone about a goal of theirs, ask them what they will see, hear, and feel after achieving it.<\/p>\n<p>Having the knowledge of V-A-K helps tremendously both when talking to individuals in general and when coaching people.\u00a0 Knowing these styles will give you an advantage when supporting your clients.\u00a0 It gives you a better understanding of how each of your clients think and how to ask questions they understand.\u00a0 After training with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\">Center for Coaching Certification<\/a>, remind yourself to revisit these techniques so that you continue using this powerful tool to help your client.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Pete Liska https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/peteliska\/ First, what is\/are V-A-K?\u00a0 V = Visual, A = Auditory, K = Kinesthetic.\u00a0 These refer to learning styles.\u00a0 A visual learner &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,131,470,471,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-coaching-program","category-coaching-resources","category-coaching-skills","category-tools-and-techniques","latest_post"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7369","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=7369"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7638,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7369\/revisions\/7638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}