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Traditional learning involves a student gaining knowledge from a teacher. The teacher sets out the course and the direction of the teaching. The teacher leads the student along a path of learning knowledge and acquiring information. In traditional teaching, the teacher is the leader and requires the student to follow their lead with discipline. The students [...]
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Client Leadership
November 5, 2011
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Attached or Connected
October 18, 2011
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Being either Attached or Connected is an important distinction within a Coaching Relationship. When I am attached to a client, it is because they are meeting an emotional need of mine. It is my emotional need that attaches me to a client. When a coaching relationship is meeting my emotional needs, it is not empowering [...]
Coaching the Client
June 12, 2011
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Coaching the Client is the only way to coach. The Coachee is always the client. They cannot be a Third Party that is nominated by the client. Coaching someone else is never a solution to my problem. Problem-solving is a management skill, not a Coaching Skill. When the Coach is drawn into problem-solving, they are [...]
Third Party Coaching
June 11, 2011
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Third Party Coaching doesn’t work. Coaching is a partnership between two people, not three. A Coach guides and supports a client to overcome their own problems, not someone else’s. When the client has an issue involving a third party, the issue is the client’s, not the problem of the third party. The issue that the client has [...]
Guiding & Supporting
May 29, 2011
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Guiding & Supporting the client or coachee is the role of the Coach. The role of the Life Coach is to guide and support the exploration, discovery and experience of life. The Coach guides the development of the client. The question is: “Whose plan or map are they using”? The Coach supports the development of [...]
Levels of Hearing
May 27, 2011
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There are Three Levels of Hearing: Level One: This is hearing what someone is consciously experiencing and is aware of in their present moment of existence. It is hearing ‘where they want to be’ and the problems that they face in getting there. It is clarifying their desires and aspirations for what they believe that [...]
Interrogation
May 19, 2011
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Interrogation is not a coaching skill. It is a Control Drama. Interrogation is the control drama of the Interrogator. Interrogators ask questions that: Judge, blame & condemn Are critical, cynical, sarcastic and skeptical Deprive others of their authority Have a negative purpose and intent Seek to compete with another Are controlling and seek to find fault [...]
Purpose, Reason & Meaning
May 17, 2011
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The Purpose of Coaching is to guide and support the client to realise: Where they are now Where they choose to be How they are going to get there Their Reason for choosing a Coach is because: They are frustrated because they are stuck where they are now They have lost their direction and don’t [...]
Tools, Programmes & Resources
May 14, 2011
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A tool facilitates the effective completion of a task. Tools make tasks easier to perform. Programmes set out the objectives, boundaries and parameters of a learning experience. Resources are reference materials that assist the learning of knowledge. Instructors, trainers and teachers all use tools, programmes and resources in the course of their instruction, training and education [...]
Guidance & Support
May 13, 2011
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Guidance & Support for a client are the two main objectives of a Life Coach. Guidance is a process of connecting the client to their own authority to make their own choices. It is about formulating a map of where the client is now and where the client wants to be. The Coach then supports [...]
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