SolutionsAcademy
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
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SOLUTION FOCUS
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
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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
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Last time, we talked about collaborating with the client to collect learnings before, during and after a session and also mentioned the ICF core competencies
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Section D of the updated ICF core competencies is titled: “Cultivating Learning and Growth” and the related competency is named “8. Facilitates Learning and Growth”.
Group coaching seems “en vogue” — it seems that every year, we have a new kid on the block: Working out Loud, Mastermind Groups, Action
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
