{"id":8404,"date":"2019-07-25T11:03:34","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T11:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/?p=8404"},"modified":"2019-06-18T19:08:56","modified_gmt":"2019-06-18T19:08:56","slug":"moving-forward-with-coaching-competency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/moving-forward-with-coaching-competency\/","title":{"rendered":"Moving Forward with Coaching Competency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coaching competency is about the skill of the coach as a process expertise.\u00a0 In coaching, the coach empowers the client.\u00a0 Coaching is based on the premise that the client is their own best expert.<\/p>\n<p>The client is ultimately best served by their coach when the client explores their possibilities, defines their goals, and decides on their plan of action.\u00a0 Through client-focused coaching, a client is learning skills, owning their decisions, and creating their success. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8405 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/dreamstimemaximum_69698440.jpg\" alt=\"Moving Forward with Coaching Competency \" width=\"185\" height=\"123\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Developing competency as a coach ensures that the coach is empowering the client.\u00a0 It takes competency and skill to elicit ideas and solutions from another person.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Demonstrate your focus on and respect for the client by recognizing their preferences and adjusting to their style.<\/li>\n<li>When you have coaching sessions, set aside everything else and focus completely on the client and process.<\/li>\n<li>Enhance your communication with open interest and support, exploring the possibilities of different approaches.<\/li>\n<li>A great <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/about\/faqs\/commonly-asked-questions-with-answers.html#7\">coach<\/a> is both a great listener and a great questioner.<\/li>\n<li>Listening intentionally means to listen actively, rephrase, and reflect emotions.<\/li>\n<li>Effective questions and follow-up questions empower understanding, exploration, and clarity.<\/li>\n<li>Coaches open the door for possibilities by sharing perspective and then asking more questions.<\/li>\n<li>Coaches expand on answers by asking carefully-worded probing questions, asking for more ideas, and brainstorming.<\/li>\n<li>As a coach, you are a strategic and accountability partner; a coach partners with the client in developing their plan and managing their accountability to their plan.<\/li>\n<li>Competent coaches enjoy the privilege of celebrating successes with clients.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Start with your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/en\/training.html\">coach training <\/a>and then gain experience as a coach to develop competency as a coach.\u00a0 Professional coaches are life-long learners.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coaching competency is about the skill of the coach as a process expertise.\u00a0 In coaching, the coach empowers the client.\u00a0 Coaching is based on the &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131,470,471,40],"tags":[48,85,45,50,931,193,934,936,937,933,935],"class_list":["post-8404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coaching-program","category-coaching-resources","category-coaching-skills","category-tools-and-techniques","tag-coach","tag-coach-training","tag-coaches","tag-coaching","tag-coaching-competency","tag-communication","tag-great-listener","tag-life-long-learners","tag-listening-intentionally","tag-moving-forward-with-coaching-competency","tag-professional-coaches","latest_post"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8404","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=8404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8406,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8404\/revisions\/8406"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}