Wednesday 25 February 2015

Coaching Certification Teaches Conflict Management

What if a coaching client is dealing with conflict?  Conflict provides an opportunity for creating understanding and creative brainstorming of solutions.  The key is how it is managed.  Many people avoid conflict by withdrawing.  Others avoid conflict by pushing their own solution without hearing different possibilities.  What works is to hear and understand the various perspectives, and then engage those involved in developing the solution.  Use the process from your coaching certification.  Conflict coaching is an effective tool with individuals dealing with the conflict and also with multiple people involved in the conflict.

Friday 20 February 2015

Coach Training on Ethics

What if the client is telling secrets?  As a coach, unless the secrets are a threat of harm or an unreported crime, you follow your Code of Ethics from coachtraining and the Master Coaching Agreement (an example is provided in master coaching certification) to determine if anything is to be disclosed.  Beyond that, the coach explores with a client their pros and cons of disclosing information, and their options for who they could talk to about it.

Thursday 12 February 2015

Coaching Certification for Information Management

What if a manager wants the coach to disclose what is discussed?  Coaching certification teaches you to anticipate and address this before starting work as a coach.  Coach training also ensures you are ready with a copy of the Code of Ethics and the Master Coaching Agreement, plus a blank report form similar to this:

Thursday 5 February 2015

Coach Training for Resistant Clients

After business coaching training, life coach training, executive coaching certification, or career coach certification, sometimes a coach is asked to coach an employee that was not told or was not told well.  When they find out that they must get coached, the employee resists the idea.  As a coach, how you manage the initial conversation with that individual will impact their engagement. 

Tuesday 27 January 2015

Techniques as Tools: Life Coach Training, Business Coaching Training, Career Coach Certification, Executive Coaching Certification

During life coach training, business coaching training, career coach certification, and executive coaching certification so many different techniques and tools are covered that there is information overload.  Often participants grasp some of it; they review their materials later and learn concepts that were presented, and for them are completely new because they missed them the first time through during the class.For example, here is a quick, short list of some coaching tools and techniques taught in life coach training, business coaching training, career coach certification, and executive coaching certification that are used when coaching:

Thursday 22 January 2015

Life Coach Training and Business Coaching Certification: Can I Give a Client the Answer?

The funny thing about this question is that we are often too quick to assume that the client is stuck – and they (the client) are too.  This means that as a coach it is important to be ready with effective questions to help the client get unstuck them self.  Examples of questions taught in life coach training and business coaching certification include:

Thursday 15 January 2015

Significant Learning in Life Coach Training and Career Coach Certification


In life coach training and career coach certification it is often a discussion of what a coach is NOT that starts the most important paradigm shift from helping by solving the problem to helping by empowering.  A coach is NOT a mental health professional and a coach is NOT an advisor.  Instead, a coach is a strategic partner.
Explore an analogy: 

Wednesday 7 January 2015

Challenges to Learning for Business Coaching Training or Executive Coaching Certification

When participating in a businesscoaching training program or executive coaching certification, what is the biggest challenge to learning how to coach effectively?  The answer comes from 7 years of training coaches: the most common challenge is to transition from mentoring, consulting, or giving advice to accessing the expertise of the client them self and eliciting the goals, obstacles, solutions, and plan from them.

For example, a mental health professional has great transferable skills.  The challenge for them is that they are trained to diagnose, work with past issues, provide information, and give advice.  A coach does not do any of these things.  So for a mental health professional the challenge is to switch gears and truly put the client in charge.