Our highest priority in Life and Relationship Coaching is to empower our clients to be creative and resourceful in accomplishing their goals, which is a big reason why we avoid giving advice and suggestions. We like to think that our client has all the answers inside them, to which most clients would disagree if you were to actually say that. So how can we help our client to be creative and … [Read more...] about How to use Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) to Help Your Coaching Clients
Coaching Skills
The #1 Secret to Becoming a Fantastic Coach
Here at Relationship Coaching Institute we provide the training, mentoring and support you need to become a successful and skilled coach, but how do you become a fantastic coach? Becoming a fantastic coach, as with most skills and professions, typically follows these Four Stages of Competence: Stage 1: Unconscious Incompetence The trainee does not understand or know how to do something, does … [Read more...] about The #1 Secret to Becoming a Fantastic Coach
Dealing with Client Resistance in Life and Relationship Coaching
A professional coach doesn't psychoanalyze their client and interpret their behavior as "resistant," simple as that. The nuance here is that "resistance" happens, is more commonly caused inadvertently by the coach, and doesn't always mean the client has a problem that needs fixing. Just as "the customer is always right" you can assume that your client is always "right" and a reaction that you … [Read more...] about Dealing with Client Resistance in Life and Relationship Coaching
How to Refer for Therapy as a Professional Coach
In coaching we like to say "When in doubt, refer it out," but how? A trainee of Relationship Coaching Institute with a client exhibiting symptoms of severe postpartum depression asked "How do you handle referrals when your client lives in another state and you don't have any connections in their area?" and stimulated the following response addressing the nuances of making referrals for therapy as … [Read more...] about How to Refer for Therapy as a Professional Coach
Coaching Tip: Convert Statements into Coaching Questions
The most common "uncoach-like" behavior displayed by trainees early in their coach training is to provide a suggestion or POV in response to their client's situation. Why? I understand that you really want to help and empathize with the impulse to simply blurt out what you think your client needs to do or understand, but leaving your coaching lane and dis-empowering your client to do so is simply … [Read more...] about Coaching Tip: Convert Statements into Coaching Questions
Top Five Tips for Facilitating Dialogue in Relationship Coaching
1. Be mindful that you are coaching their RELATIONSHIP which is the space between them, and you can't do so if each partner focuses on YOU. The easiest and most important strategy for facilitating dialogue is, whenever possible, to direct their attention AND responses to EACH OTHER and not to you. Be sure to discuss this during Intake when on-boarding your new clients so they know what to … [Read more...] about Top Five Tips for Facilitating Dialogue in Relationship Coaching
