This FREE PDF guide addresses five critical questions for professional coaches working with a client who is “stuck” due to internal obstacles: Click below for free immediate access, no registration necessary. Please share this important information with your colleagues! … [Read more...] about Free PDF: A Coach’s Guide to Therapy for Stuck Clients
Coaching Skills
Coaching for Effective Choice Making
The Big Idea: Coaching is goal and action oriented. Actions are choices that have predictable consequences/outcomes. Effective, strategic choice making includes planning for possible contingencies and outcomes. As the saying goes, "When you fail to plan, you plan to fail." Planning that doesn't include anticipating problems is doomed to fail. An RCI trainee submitted this in a Coaching … [Read more...] about Coaching for Effective Choice Making
The Role of Ego in Life and Relationship Coaching
"Ego" is Latin for the word "I." The human ego is fascinating. It appears to be the center and source of "self," yet it gets in the way of our goals and relationships and even dealing with reality (e.g. "denial"). The most important paradigm shift and skill for anyone who wants to "coach" life or relationships is to accept that the highest priority in doing so is Empowerment simply because … [Read more...] about The Role of Ego in Life and Relationship Coaching
The Three C’s of Effective Communication
In a previous article The #1 Most Important Relationship Skill introduced the idea that taking ownership of your internal experience (thoughts, feelings, needs, beliefs, attitudes and judgments) is far more important than anything you might say for effective communication and successful relationships. The Big Idea: When it comes to humans it is inevitable that "What's inside shows up on the … [Read more...] about The Three C’s of Effective Communication
How to Coach Decision Making
Most times in life a decision isn't a clean, easy "Yes" or "No" and almost all significant choices and decisions that a client might bring up with a coach usually include unavoidable, undesired consequences and downsides. This makes decision making an incredibly common and important coaching topic, agenda, and skillset. In coaching relationships a simple list of pros and cons, even weighted, is a … [Read more...] about How to Coach Decision Making
How to Use Your Coaching Superpower: Five Real Examples
The big idea: Coaching is more than asking one question at a time. Coaching is taking your client on a journey by asking a SERIES of questions strategically designed to move them forward towards their desired results. We define your Coaching Superpower very simply as what you choose to focus on with your client with your next coaching question; using your coaching skills to empower your client … [Read more...] about How to Use Your Coaching Superpower: Five Real Examples
