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ICF Core Coaching Competencies - Coaching Presence
Coaching

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.

Coaching Presence with Jo Fourtanier
Coaching

Coaching Presence with Joanne Fourtanier

Coaching presence is one of the most complex and misunderstood professional coaching competencies. Cherie Silas and Alex Kudinov are chatting with Jo Fourtanier and discussing this competency in this podcast episode.

Simplifying Coaching with Claire Pedrick
Coaching

Simplifying Coaching with Claire Pedrick

In our VUCA world do we as coaches need to add more complexity and make our craft all that complex? Claire Pedrick says we work too hard and too much. Simplifying coaching is the key to mastery.

Empathy, neutrality, and vulnerability
Coaching

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.

Understand, Respect, and Acknowledge
Coaching

ICF Core Competencies: Understand, Respect, and Acknowledge

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.

Keys for a Strong Session Agreement
Coaching

ICF Core Competencies: Keys for a Strong Session Agreement

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.

Coaching Plan
Coaching

ICF Core Competencies: The Coaching Plan

The last article introduced the use of the STORMMES Model © in co-creating the relationship agreement with the client. In this article, we take a closer look at competency 3 Establishes and Maintains Agreements.

The first three competency markers in this section help us to understand what a good relationship agreement contains.

Managing Client Focus, Session Time
Coaching

ICF Core Competencies: Managing Client Focus, Session Time, and Relationship Completion

Every coaching conversation begins with the client’s agenda and focus. The client holds the content, and the coach holds the process. Together they partner to make progress towards the client’s goals. The goal of coaching is to create client awareness. It is more important that the client learn and make progress toward the goals outlined at the beginning of the conversation than it is to get to the end, ring the bell and say, “We did it!”

Professional Coaching Skills for Agile coaches
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Professional Coaching Skills for Agile Coaches

We interviewed one of our past student, Christine Thompson, and asked her a few questions about agile coaching and professional coaching, and how professional coaching skills help her as an agile coach in her daily life.