November 16, 2016
A few weeks ago a coworker came to my office with a request: “I have a student here looking for her coach.” As her normal coach was unavailable I met with the student—let’s call her “Sam”—myself. I could tell Sam felt a sense of urgency. “Sorry to just show up, but I have a situation …read more.
November 16, 2016
You may have coached a client through a layoff, but what would you do if entire industries were rendered obsolete, because those jobs had been taken by intelligent machines? It sounds like science fiction, but is fast becoming fact. We’re facing imminent change to the very nature of employment. However, as coaches we can be …read more.
November 16, 2016
As coaches, we’re tasked with meeting clients where they are. However, we find often that the client is focused on his or her present situation and objectives at the expense of looking toward the future. As coaches, we can support our clients in increasing their awareness of future trends and developing strategies to remain relevant …read more.
November 3, 2016
A model of adult change can provide valuable structure for your coaching engagements, bringing awareness to specific areas where blocks or resistance may be occurring and illuminating pathways for deeper exploration. Each of us is born with a specific personality, or temperament, that will have a strong influence on our motivations and behavior patterns. Psychologists …read more.
October 22, 2016
Core Competency #8: Creating Awareness Ability to integrate and accurately evaluate multiple sources of information and to make interpretations that help the client to gain awareness and thereby achieve agreed-upon results. In our coaching practice, we encounter clients with one or more important projects that they want to start, but they find themselves “stopping” instead of …read more.
October 1, 2016
The situation: A coaching conversation with an executive client. The client is married, male and holds a C-suite role. After working with his coach for nine months, he declares he wants to take the conversation “in a different direction today.” He’s incredibly stressed about a situation that he characterizes as “a time-management issue.” He reveals …read more.
August 22, 2016
Mindfulness is an essential quality of an effective leader. It’s also often severely misunderstood, not least because so many people have jumped on the bandwagon, confusing it, for example, with teaching people meditation techniques. The word “mindful” doesn’t help: Having our minds constantly full and preoccupied is the problem the approach aims to solve, not …read more.
August 22, 2016
“Walking is man’s best medicine.” —Hippocrates The art and science of coaching combined with kinesthetic motion in a natural environment creates a powerful blend to facilitate transformational change. Walking and talking coaching sessions range from a reflective meander along a nearby river or local urban adventure of exploration to a focused, brisk march to reach …read more.
July 26, 2016
“Coaching from a cultural perspective allows the unleashing of additional human potential by systematically tapping into the richness of cultural diversity, into the wisdom that lies in alternative cultural perspectives.” —Philippe Rosinski, MCC Recently, my client—a vice president of a global manufacturing company—lamented, “My daughter now calls me ‘The Telecon Man,’” referring to the incessant …read more.
July 21, 2016
Core Competency #4: Coaching Presence Ability to be fully conscious and create spontaneous relationship with the client, employing a style that is open, flexible and confident. What does being present have to do with describing coaching? I mean, if you are with someone, we assume that you are present. When we were in school and the …read more.
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