Coaching assumptions: choose them wisely
Hi – this is Chris speaking. I am SolutionsAcademy’s global training director and love working as a mentor, coach supervisor and coach trainer. I’ll be
Hi – this is Chris speaking. I am SolutionsAcademy’s global training director and love working as a mentor, coach supervisor and coach trainer. I’ll be
It is my firm conviction that whenever two people sit together and one person is trying to be helpful to the otherperson, something good will
In 2004, I was vacationing with my family on the Maldives when the devastating Sumatra earthquake and the ensuing tsunami hit the idyllic flat little
As you are coaching a client, a feeling slowly creeps up: You don’t know where the session is heading. Confused as you are, you first
The actor Woody Allen is said to have talked to his psychoanalyst four times a week almost all his life. Maybe it kept him functional,
In one of our coaching meetup and exchange sessions, one of our friends mentioned an awkward situation in a “chemistry” call: the potential client seemed
The ICF core competencies and markers for ACC, PCC and MCC performance evaluations require of the coach to “partner with the client”. What is meant
Of course, a coach should always listen to the client! Our focus is with the client and they are the center of the conversation and
My colleague Chris and I were facilitating a “mastermind group” for leaders this week. In our experience, this is one of the best ways for
I didn’t either until our colleague Raf and I developed it in one of our conversations while our participants were in the breakout rooms (just
Executives are human beings, too — so really, should it make a difference if your client is a C-level executive? Not really, right? And we
As coaches, leaders, sales people, conversation partners in general, if we want to learn something, we need to ask open questions. “When you talk, you
If you have read some of my blogs, you know that I am not really keen on labelling anything or anyone and especially not labelling
“And noowwwww, the end is neeeeeaarr…”, ok, sorry for my singing :-). However, ending a coaching conversation is not as easy as the final bars
Some things about social media are brilliant, for example the fact that Tim, a friend from Singapore, recommended a book on Facebook: “Stolen Focus: Why