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No Random Questions

So I heard this thing over the last couple of weeks from a few people, namely, some of our students are telling me is that, “Well, we heard that in coaching, we ask random questions, and that has a chance of bringing new awareness to clients.” And while I cannot argue with the latter, I […]

Engaged Neutrality

Hi, I’m Cherie Silas. I’m a Master Certified Coach and a Certified Enterprise coach. And the focus of my work is helping Scrum masters, agile coaches and organizational coaches to develop their coaching skills so that they can impact the clients in a stronger way. When I’m teaching professional coaching, one of the things that […]

3 Books Every Coach Must Read

Whether you are an experienced executive coach, or a starting life coach, or an aspiring career coach, there is a book that claims to be a fantastic resource to launch your careers to the next level. Here are some excellent books that helped me in my professional and career development as a professional coach. Neither of these is an advanced coaching book that will teach you some sacral coaching knowledge and will propel you and your coaching career to the stardom. However, if you have time and patience to grab a concept here, and a tidbit there, you will be on your way to becoming and masterful coach and a successful person.

ICF Core Coaching Competencies - Coaching Presence

ICF Core Competencies: Develop Your 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.

ICF Core Competencies: 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.

ICF Core Competencies: Self-Awareness and Intuition

In this article of the series we are looking at the importance of recognizing and demonstrating cultural awareness in coaching practice.

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.

Direct Communication in Coaching

Many think that coaching is all about asking powerful questions. That is an incorrect assumption. Coach there to help the client in whichever way available to gain new awareness. Direct communication is the key.

Hiring in the Virtualized World

Karen Bruns, an ICAgile AHR Instructor, shares her thoughts on the hiring in the virtualized world and how ICAgile class can help

ICF Core Competencies: Acknowledging Client Responsibility

ICF recently released and updated competency model that will go into effect for credential applications in early 2021.What does this change mean for coaches? It means that it’s time to step up our game and start focusing on what these indicators mean to who we are as coaches. The competency markers aren’t meant to be a checklist to make sure you go through every coaching session. They are intended to help you have a way to look at how your coaching mindset is being outwardly manifested. If these things aren’t showing, don’t create a list of questions to check off the markers. Instead, take a look inside and see what needs to change about who you are as a coach in order to reflect these things in your everyday life. Being a coach goes way beyond what you do inside a coaching session. It’s who you are and what you have become. It’s how you look at people and how you interact with the world that surrounds you.