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Professional Coaching

ICF Core Coaching Competencies - Coaching Presence
Mastering ICF's Competency 5, Maintaining Presence, coaches craft a space for client self-discovery. Through deep listening and strategic silence, they foster an environment where clients feel heard, supported, and empowered to explore their own paths. This commitment to presence enhances every session, guiding clients toward profound insights and transformative growth.
Empathy, neutrality, and vulnerability
The last few articles introduced concepts and International Coach Federation core competencies in co-creating the coach client relationship and building a strong coaching agreement with the client. In this article, we inspect another ICF core competency – Establishes and Maintains Agreements. We will also discuss the ways to make sure you and the client are appropriately matched before committing to a coaching relationship.
Understand, Respect, and Acknowledge
The last few articles introduced concepts and International Coach Federation core competencies in co-creating the coach client relationship and building a strong coaching agreement with the client. In this article, we inspect another ICF core competency – Establishes and Maintains Agreements. We will also discuss the ways to make sure you and the client are appropriately matched before committing to a coaching relationship.
Keys for a Strong Session Agreement
The last few articles introduced concepts and International Coach Federation core competencies in co-creating the coach client relationship and building a strong coaching agreement with the client. In this article, we inspect another ICF core competency – Establishes and Maintains Agreements. We will also discuss the ways to make sure you and the client are appropriately matched before committing to a coaching relationship.
Coaching Plan
The last article introduced the use of the STORMMES Model © in co-creating the relationship agreement with the client. In this article, we take a closer look at competency 3 Establishes and Maintains Agreements.The first three competency markers in this section help us to understand what a good relationship agreement contains.
Scaling coaching through systems thinking
Scaling is often frowned upon in the Agile world. Scaling coaching from individuals to teams and to organizations is the only way to bring the systemic change to bigger and wider systems and we believe that scaling coaching through systems thinking is the way to go.
Managing Client Focus, Session Time
Every coaching conversation begins with the client’s agenda and focus. The client holds the content, and the coach holds the process. Together they partner to make progress towards the client’s goals. The goal of coaching is to create client awareness. It is more important that the client learn and make progress toward the goals outlined at the beginning of the conversation than it is to get to the end, ring the bell and say, “We did it!”
ICF Core Competencies - Client Coach Partnership
The last few articles introduced concepts and International Coach Federation core competencies in co-creating the coach client relationship and building a strong coaching agreement with the client. In this article, we inspect another ICF core competency – Establishes and Maintains Agreements. We will also discuss the ways to make sure you and the client are appropriately matched before committing to a coaching relationship.
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