Coaching Skills
Coaching – Does it Matter? Yes, it Does!
Earlier this month, we offered five key points about what coaching is. Now, let’s look toward why coaching matters. From a research-based perspective and a personal opinion, coaching is an effective growth and support process for businesses and individuals. Personally, I don’t know how people stay motivated and productive in dealing with the challenges of…
Read MoreHigh-Five for Coaching – Five Key Points On What Coaching is All About
Recently, a client asked me to offer some language to share with her team about what coaching is and why it matters. Here are some of my thoughts – let’s call them five key points about what coaching is. Perhaps this will serve as a reminder for all of us about the importance of coaching…
Read MoreCurious and Interested – What Makes Them Different?
Of the 87 emotions Brené Brown names and explores in Atlas of the Heart, let’s take a closer look at the nuances between curiosity and interest. Here are Dr. Brown’s definitions: Interest is a cognitive openness to engaging with a topic or experience. Curiosity is recognizing a gap in our knowledge about something that interests…
Read MoreBeneath the Water Line
We use the iceberg as a metaphor for actions and behaviors that are seen above the surface, while thinking and emotions often remain beneath the surface—sometimes unseen and unexplored by others or even by ourselves. In thinking about the vast amount of uncertainty we have all experienced during the last two years, the emotions Brené…
Read MoreUncertainty & Complexity to Clarity – A Few Simple Options
In every Results Coaching Global seminar, in almost all coaching conversations, people share their feelings and behaviors of being overwhelmed. Of course, life is trying to get back to some normalcy, yet all around us, other signs say, caution, caution, caution. You are a professional, you are committed, you want to do a good job!…
Read MoreFive Disciplines of Team Coaching
Peter Hawkins, in his book, Leadership Team Coaching: Developing Collective Transformational Leadership, describes five disciplines that support a team coach to focus on the multiple relationships of the team. These relationships include the internal relationship among team members and the external relationship between the team as an entity and their stakeholders. The Five disciplines are:…
Read MoreEmploy Team Coaching for Sustainable Change
Almost every time we facilitate a Leadership Coaching for High Performance seminar, someone poses the question, “Can we use this with teams as well?” Our answer: “Of course. The same skills apply—the essential skills of committed listening, powerful paraphrasing, presuming positive intent, and reflective feedback.” However, there are some differences between individual coaching and team…
Read MoreWhen Do I Not Coach?
Again, Marcia Reynolds, in Coach the Person, Not the Problem, speaks to us about when not to coach. She says we Do Not Coach if we cannot do the following: Let go of how we want the conversation to go. If not, we lead, we force, and we solve which is contrary to what coaching is.…
Read MoreWhen Do I Coach?
Many people hold the misconception that coaching is ONLY about problems. In reality, there are many opportunities to coach which show up in both our personal and professional lives. According to Marcia Reynolds, in her book, Coach the Person, Not the Problem, she offers these possibilities as an ideal time for a coaching conversation. Exploring…
Read MoreWhat Coaching Is . . . AND . . . What It Is Not?
In our Level I seminar – Leadership Coaching for High Performance, you create a list in response to this question – What Is Coaching and What Is It Not? Here are some of your responses: What Coaching IS What Coaching Is Not Full presence Multi-tasking Non-judgemental Judgment Partnering Mentoring Now, add your own: What Coaching…
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