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A Coaching Way of Being

for Non-Coaches

Aims

- What is coaching about?

- What practices and orientations can we use to improve our interactions with others?

Defining Coaching

- ICF defines coaching as:“partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential”.

- COMENSA defines coaching as:"a professional, collaborative and outcomes-driven method of learning that seeks to develop an individual and raise self-awareness so that he or she might achieve specific goals and perform at a more effective level".

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Coaching Engagement: Awareness & Action

Awareness Action (Responsibility)

Transformation

Differences & Similarities between Coachingand Other Modalities

Consulting

Psychotherapy/Counselling

Mentoring

Training

Mentoring

Consulting

Counselling

TrainingCoaching

Grant & Cavanagh, 2002

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1. Be Present & Listen

“Everything we do depends for its quality on the thinking we do first. Our thinking depends on our quality of attention for each other.” -

Nancy Kline

http://curatti.com/listeners-listens/

2. Acknowledge & Respond After

( www.lifehack.org, 2015)

3. Ask More Questions – Be Curious!

Asking open questions causes them to think for themselves.

(Whitmore, 2002)

Reminder: Powerful Questions

A paradigm shift occurs when a question is asked inside the current paradigm that can only be answered from outside it.

Marilee Goldberg, The Art of the Question

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4. Offering Observations, Allowing Others to

Draw Own Conclusions

https://montyrainey.wordpress.com/2012/04/01/the-dangerous-habit-of-jumping-to-conclusions/

Remember…..

What we believe about the people we coach is a key driver of their performance.

-Fine (2013)

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Enhances Ownership & Performance

When we truly accept, choose or take responsibility for our thoughts and our actions, our commitment to them rises and so does our performance.

John Whitmore

Enhances Ownership & Performance

I cannot make the successful people I work with change. I don't try. Too many people think that a coach -- especially an accomplished one -- will solve their problems. That's like thinking that you'll get in shape by hiring the world's best trainer and not by working out yourself.

Marshall Goldsmith

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