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November 15, 2024

How to prepare for a coaching session: a reflective approach

Prepare for impactful coaching sessions with this 5-step approach: center yourself, recall the client’s journey, set your intention, listen deeply, and embrace flexibility. Enhance each session with presence and purpose.

November 8, 2024

When your client has YOUR problem

When coaches face similar challenges as clients, maintaining focus can be difficult. Strategies include being transparent, practicing mindful empathy, recognizing differences in experiences, and emphasizing a future-focused perspective.

October 31, 2024

What to Do When a Client Becomes Pushy and Expects More Time Than Agreed

Setting boundaries with pushy clients is essential to sustainable coaching. Empathetically revisit agreements, offer alternatives, encourage independence, and protect your energy to maintain a balanced, respectful coaching relationship for both parties.

October 25, 2024

Can a manager coach their team??

A manager coaching their team is complex due to role confusion and potential conflicts of interest. However, if roles are clarified and trust is built, it can work—especially within a coaching culture. Alternatives include swapping managers for coaching or hiring external coaches to avoid evaluation bias.

October 18, 2024

Coaching and Lindy Hop: Learning is fun!

I'm currently taking Lindy Hop classes in Tokyo with Yamada-sensei, exploring the varied teaching styles I've experienced across countries. As a coach educator, I find it fascinating how different learning approaches impact skill development.

October 11, 2024

How to measure success in your early coaching journey?

Measuring success as a new coach involves gathering client feedback, self-reflection, seeking external validation like certifications and supervision, and tracking business growth. Success is a continuous, long-term journey.

October 4, 2024

The 3 main benefits of coaching supervision

Coaching supervision offers three main benefits: normative (ethical guidance), formative (education and learning), and restorative (emotional support). It also reduces coach isolation, promotes reflection, and safeguards clients.

September 27, 2024

Insights to actions

When clients experience insights in coaching, describing their new reality in detail helps solidify lasting change. Thoughtful, customized questions can deepen understanding and make their future possibilities feel real and actionable.

September 20, 2024

Reflection on reflection: the 6 “D” process to generate your own process

A reflective process was created using the 6 D framework: Dream, Design, Deliver, Double-check, Develop, and Do it again. This approach helps coaches ask motivating, growth-oriented questions before and after sessions.

September 13, 2024

Internal states vs. Intentional states: how to “go deep” in coaching

Explore the consequence of assuming "internal states" vs. "intentional states" in coaching. What are your criteria for a "deep" and "transformational" coaching conversation?

September 5, 2024

When coaching clients want to continue - but you don't think they need to

When coaching self-sufficient clients, ethical questions arise about the value of continued sessions. Coaches should evaluate if the client is dependent, lacks alternative support, or benefits from scheduled reflection. If the client is financially comfortable and the sessions provide value, continuing may be reasonable, but always prioritize empowering the client’s independence

August 30, 2024

Dominant discourses of coaching: which one have you been recruited into?

Simon Western (2012) identifies four dominant coaching discourses: Soul Guide, Psy Expert, Managerial, and Network Coach, each requiring distinct approaches, purposes, and skills in coaching practice. Which one have you been recruited into?ing

August 23, 2024

9 things coaches can do to protect client data right now

9 things coaches can do immediately to protect client data. Read the most important simple and immediately actionable steps.

August 15, 2024

Transformational coaching without "digging deep"

Explore the nuances of "digging deep" in coaching. This blog challenges the preference for transformational sessions, advocating for meaningful conversations without essentialist traps. Learn how to invite change effectively.

August 9, 2024