Note: This will also be published in the weekly Newsletter Coaches Mojo on May 26, 2009.
Coaching is about change. It can be finding a new career, creating better balance in life or adding a new activity in order to “spice up” life. In these contexts we often talk about trying to find ones passion and [...]
Alex Fayle has a really interesting post today, Taming the Voices in the Personality Zoo. It describes a fun and really useful way to sort out what stops us from achieving what we want.
By assigning each piece of resistance a personality, I can diffuse the internal argument by recognizing the emotion attached to the thought [...]
Colin Ude-Lewis publishes the weekly Newsletter Coaches Mojo. It is an inspiring newsletter, described like this:
Coaches Mojo is not for everyone. It’s for those who don’t like to to sit still with the same old thinking, and want to find new and better ways to improve every part of their world. Coaches Mojo is [...]
The Life Coaching Handbook: Everything You Need to Be an Effective Life Coach is written by Curly Martin. The subtitle is a mouthful but I like the book and it really covers a lot. It is a book I will go back to for reference, to refresh my knowledge and to find new views on [...]
The Global Success Sandbox is a group at XING with focus on coaching. The group presentation says this:
The Global Success Sandbox is a place for
- coaches
- people who would like to find out more about coaching and what it has to offer.
- And for those who are looking for the perfect coach to help them [...]
Today I got my diploma as proof of finishing the coach training at CoachCompagniet in Malmö. This means I am a professional coach. Each of us did a 15 minutes coaching session which should cover the coaching core competencies. This was done before two certified coaches who were judging us.
The coach training is accredited by [...]
The following eleven core coaching competencies were developed to support greater understanding about the skills and approaches used within today’s coaching profession as defined by the ICF.
A. SETTING THE FOUNDATION
1. MEETING ETHICAL GUIDELINES AND PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS
2. ESTABLISHING THE COACHING AGREEMENT
B. CO-CREATING THE RELATIONSHIP
3. ESTABLISHING TRUST AND INTIMACY WITH THE CLIENT
4. COACHING PRESENCE
C. COMMUNICATING EFFECTIVELY
5. ACTIVE [...]
In my About-page it says that coaching is one of the core topics for this blog. Anyone checking the Coaching-category will notice that at present there are few posts. This will change in the future though.
I have over the years coached friends and workmates. Now it is time to get serious which means I saw [...]
Penelope Trunk has a great post titled 4 Tips for being your own career coach. These are her four tips:
1. Talk to an imaginary coach.
2. Ask yourself better questions.
3. Pretend to give advice to someone else.
4. Believe in your ability to make positive change in your life.
I think the last one is the key to [...]
