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The Coaching Alliance: Partnering With Clients for Success
The coaching alliance is the working partnership at the center of every engagement. How coaches build and sustain it for…
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ICF Certification Requirements Explained
ICF became the gold standard of coach credentialing. Here's exactly what ICF certification requires — training hours, mentor coaching, performance…
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ICF Core Competencies: The Relationship Agreement
The last article introduced the use of the STORMMES Model © in co-creating the relationship agreement with the client. In…
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Direct Communication in Coaching
Many think that coaching is all about asking powerful questions. That is an incorrect assumption. Coach there to help the…
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Powerful Questions in Coaching: Why Timing Beats Technique
Most coaches learn that questions are their primary tool, then study lists of powerful questions and deploy them in sessions.…
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Co-Creating the Coaching Relationship
Co-creating the coaching relationship is ICF Domain B in action: agreements, trust, and presence built together.
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Shu Ha Ri of Professional Coaching
Shu-Ha-Ri is a well-known concept in the Agile and Scrum worlds. Have you thought it is also applied to the…
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ICF Core Competencies: Cultural Awareness
In this article of the series we are looking at the importance of recognizing and demonstrating cultural awareness in coaching…
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The ICF Coaching Mindset: Competency 2 and the Work Between Sessions
The coaching mindset is the one ICF competency your client never watches you perform—seven of its eight indicators are self-development…
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ICF Core Competencies: Acknowledging Client Responsibility
In the ICF coaching mindset, acknowledging client responsibility isn't a line you say to clients — it's a belief that…
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NLP Presuppositions in Coaching: The Beliefs That Shape Practice
7 NLP presuppositions reframed as internal coaching beliefs. Each with what it changes about how the coach listens, questions, and…
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Ethical Practice in Coaching: What ICF Competency 1 Really Requires
ICF moved ethics from a violation list to an active competency. Competency 1 requires coaches to demonstrate ethical behavior in…
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The STORMMES© Coaching Agreement Model: A Framework for Stronger Engagements
The STORMMES© model gives coaches a structured framework for building coaching relationship agreements that support ICF Competency 3 (Establishes and…
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From Scrum Alliance CEC to ICF: What Agile Coaches Need to Know
CEC and ICF credentials share substantial overlap in systems thinking and coaching stance. Here is how your enterprise agile coaching…
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