As a coach, you may realize at a certain point in a coaching relationship that a client isn’t going as deep into an issue that they need help with in the way that you expect. This is especially likely if emotions are connected to the root of the problem, so you may wish to gently[…]
As a coach, you know that the most effective tool you have in your toolkit are the questions that you ask your coaching clients. Questions are important because clients are already “experts” who have tried different ways to solve a situation in which they feel stuck, but they haven’t had the success they desire. So,[…]
As a professional coach, you know that you have a duty to accompany your client on a journey that will result in that client finding for himself or herself the solutions to the issues they face. Now comes the tricky part about your role as a coach; as you accompany your client, you need to[…]
Coaching must take place in an open and safe environment for coaching clients. Your biggest task as a coach is to create this open and safe environment right from the get-go when a client hires you. One way to achieve this is by incorporating some fun into the coaching session. Every person has a child[…]
Let us start by making a huge statement; advice and recommendations are overrated. What?! Yes, as a coach, always have it in mind that your clients are not looking for advice or recommendations regarding the challenges that they face. Coaching clients are subject matter “experts” on the issues facing them, so what they are looking[…]
In coaching, less is often more, and this principle comes to the fore when coaches are formulating the questions that they put before clients in order to nudge them to reframe a problem before the best solution can be found. As a coach, you need to keep this same principle in mind when you are[…]
As a coach, you are aware that you have your own frame of reference that shapes how you view everything around you, including your coaching clients and their issues. This frame of reference is shaped by the experiences you have had, the education you underwent, the values you uphold, among others. In the same way,[…]
One of the most common regrets that people have when they are on their deathbeds is that they wish they had lived their lives in accordance with their own inclination. In other words, as these people are dying, they confess that it wasn’t worth it to let other forces (society, spouses, employers, etc.) to dictate[…]
When you look back over the last couple of years, can you definitively state that you are happy with the results you got in each of those years? If you want 2020 to be the year when things turn around, the year when you register achievements that are beyond your wildest dreams, then you need[…]
In our last post, we dwelt at length on what procrastination is and also explored some of the causes of this habit. It is important to note here that procrastination differs from being lazy since being lazy has more to do with apathy while procrastination may entail choosing to do something else instead of doing[…]