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7 Habits of Highly Effective Coachees: #7 Avoiding Over-reliance on Your Coach
In the final post of this series, I’m focusing on a potential downside of the coach-coachee relationship. It sounds like I’m ending this series on a negative topic, but it has its basis on the positive coach-coachee relationship! When you work with a coach: you feel...
4 More Ways to Sharpen Your Coaching Skills!
In '4 Ways to Sharpen Your Coaching Skills' I raised the question - How do you ensure that your coaching abilities are as good as they can be? Here are 4 more ideas ... let me know what you think, and which others you'd add! 1. Keep a journal – record your reflections...
7 Habits of Highly Effective Coachees: #6 Reflecting & Learning
Reflection is a type of thinking associated with deep thought, aimed at achieving better understanding. You’ll reflect within the coaching session (*reflecting ‘in action’) with the support of your coach, and beyond it (*reflecting ‘on action’) through your own...
7 Habits of Highly Effective Coachees: #5 Embrace Feedback
One of the core skills of a coach is feeding back to you (the coachee) things that they are noticing ... hearing, seeing and feeling. This might include: noticing shifts in your body language or changes in tone / volume, whenever you talk about a particular topic, or...
My Favourite Coaching Questions
I guess all coaches will have their favourite questions, or at least ones they ask more often than others. This could be because of models introduced in training, their coaching experience, or preferably both. The longer I’ve been a coach the less I’ve relied...
4 Ways to Sharpen Your Coaching Skills
Whether you coach as part of your role in an organisation, or you're an independent coach, how do you ensure that your coaching abilities are as good as they can be? Do you have people or systems (or both) that help you review your ongoing development? As a guide and...
7 Habits of Highly Effective Coachees: #4 Willingness to be Challenged!
A coaching session without challenge is like having a pleasant conversation with a friend, where you comfortably discuss your situation without actually making any progress or achieving a solution. At the ‘soft squidgy’ end of challenge, you’ll feel positively...
7 Habits of Highly Effective Coachees: #3 Being Clear About Roles & Responsibilities
How clear are you about your role in the coach-coachee relationship? What are you responsible for? Whilst coaching is a fluid relationship without a hierarchy, there still needs to be clarity about the different roles and responsibilities of both parties. Being clear...
How Good Are You At Being Rather Than Doing?
I don’t know about you, but when it comes to evenings, weekends or holiday times, I find it hard to stop doing things. Winding down feels like an effort that I haven’t got the energy for! I also find myself having a battle with my thinking … “I need to do ‘X’ …” “I...
7 Habits of Highly Effective Coachees: #2 Preparing for a Coaching Session
In the second post of this series, I look at developing the good habit of being prepared for your coaching, so you can maximise the time with your coach. This helps you hit the ground running, and both you and your coach can make a positive and strong start with your...
Using Visual ‘Check-Ins’ in Coaching & Supervision
Coaches I work with will not be surprised by the main image for this blog post! I love creating visual images and using them in different ways. Recently, as more of my coaching and supervision has been online, I've been developing visual resources to use in the...
7 Habits of Highly Effective Coachees: #1 Finding the Right Coach
This series of blogs is all about supporting coachees. The focus for coaching blogs is often on the coach, and their development ... so I thought I'd switch things around and look at the coach-coachee relationship, and the coaching process, from the coachee's...