Does a coach actually work?
There are old adages in the coachosphere: “NEVER work more than your client! The client does all the work! Here works the client!” Hmm… “So
There are old adages in the coachosphere: “NEVER work more than your client! The client does all the work! Here works the client!” Hmm… “So
In social constructionist approaches to coaching, like the Solution Focused or Narrative Practice, we assume that we cannot look at our clients outside their context.
Ok, maybe this is too harsh, and just maybe I am going on a little rant, so if you maybe are more in the mood
Don’t you love the view? If you are like me, you’ve spent years and years or months and months hiking up this beautiful mountain, jumped
Most coaching approaches know “scaling questions” in different variations. Solution Focused Coaching uses them in order to help the client describe small differences on their
Overview Scrummasters and agile coaches know the tool of the “priority poker” in which team members can prioritize ideas. There are different forms of this
In the updated ICF PCC markers for evaluating coaching sessions we read: “Coach asks clear, direct, primarily open-ended questions, one at a time, at a
Ever since the google aristotle project “psychological safety” seems to be the buzz word of teams today. What always amuses me is that it is
Many of us coaches and leaders were forced to move our work online during the global pandemic – some of us with more experience, some
I don’t know if you have commercials for medication in your country — in Germany, they always end with a disclaimer or warning: “For information on
“Tolerance of ambiguity” – wonderful word, isn’t it? In German it is even better (‘cause we can stick all components together 😊) “Ambiguitätstoleranz”. What? Come
Last week I had a session with a few of our team coaching alumni. They had called for “first aid” — a kind of supervision
The Solution Focused approach concentrates on a rich description of the desired future and a description of the instances in which this future was already
What is that? Are we coaching the gentle grey, long-eared companions (that I find absolutely adorable)? Nope. “Donkey Coaching” is a term coined by Federica
The great thing about being a mentor and coach trainer is that I learn so much from my participants and mentor coaching or coaching supervision