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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
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Most of us live in a bi-lingual world where we either speak more than one language or are communicating with people whose native language is
As much as we state it in the beginning of a coaching contract, some clients continue to want us to tell them what to do.
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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.
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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visualization
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
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
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TEAM COACHING
Last week, I blogged about “homework” and several wonderful people took up the opportunity to discuss this question in the “Free Coaching Meetup and Exchange”
I love metaphors — I love playing with language and being playful is something I really enjoy. Recently I came across a BBC documentary podcast
I started leading a team of 14 dedicated board members of ICF Germany as president in November 2020 we had our wonderful and inspiring initial
You are dreading the meeting — you know the issue at hand is highly controversial. You’ve talked to a few people and there are two
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”.
Are you limiting yourself with your metaphors? Explore how labeling people as "toxic" makes everything worse.
Only one, but the lightbulb has to want it! Ok, this is an old joke, but how soon is it forgotten when we enter the
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