October 12, 2022
Professional coaching is about understanding our coachees, not satisfying our curiosity. Ask an audience of professional coaches, “What’s the most important skill for a coach to master?” and you’re likely to hear “Curiosity! A curious coach is a great coach!” In fact, many coaches frequently interject the phrase, “I’m curious…” into their coaching sessions. There …read more.
September 21, 2022
Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable. —Leonard Bernstein Most of us recognize that music can be more than a means to fill the silence. Many of us have experienced its power of persuasion. It convinces us to get up and dance when we are far more comfortable sitting. It induces laughter when …read more.
September 2, 2022
Genius extraordinaire Albert Einstein was attributed to saying, “I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.” Einstein was clearly onto something. Research has shown that curiosity is correlated with creativity and innovation, intelligence, tighter relational bonds, improved learning, and problem-solving. With all those benefits, it’s no wonder that creating a culture of …read more.
August 23, 2022
Certain tasks or situations can create a lot of anxiety for clients, which can then become an obstacle to achieving their desired outcome. Anxiety around the scope of the goal, about what others will think, of success, failure, of letting themselves or others down. What happens? The client avoids and/or postpones the task or …read more.
May 1, 2022
It’s the toughest challenges that bring people to coaching. A company’s culture is dysfunctional, so your new client is contemplating a job change. A nonprofit is floundering, and the exhausted CEO turns to you for help. A small business barely stays profitable as the owner confesses his feelings of incompetence. A school district struggles to …read more.
March 23, 2022
My friend, who I’ll call Bob, was nearing the end of life. Bob and I had worked together for years and had grown to be good friends. As he was coming to terms with the end of life, Bob ask me to stop by for a visit. We sat across the room from each other …read more.
February 21, 2022
Many of us have successful clients who suffer from imposter syndrome. Imposter syndrome takes the forms of fear, anxiety, self-doubt, second-guessing, and lack of confidence and/or self-worth. Does having one or more of these feelings necessarily imply that the person has imposter syndrome? Or could it just be a situational fear? Of course, it is …read more.
February 17, 2022
Let’s start with a Q&A. Q: Which one (or more) is the odd one out? Weak organizational skills Procrastination Unclear goals Anxiety Power Outage Unhealthy habits Fears Noisy neighbors Poor coping strategies Negative Thinking A: Power outage and noisy neighbors. These two are external roadblocks. The rest? Examples of internal roadblocks. Let’s consider a power …read more.
February 7, 2022
Fact: No one became a great coach overnight. It takes years of consistent, intentional practice, studying and learning from mistakes accumulated along the way. As a professional coach for quite some time now, I have had my own share of mistakes back when I was just a newbie in the industry, all of which have …read more.
February 1, 2022
The demands of the environment often clash with the physical and social needs of the individual. The conscious mind uses storytelling to grapple with these internal conflicts to bring the individual into accord with culture and nature. In my last blog post, I discussed the use of Story Quest Walks in nature. I demonstrated how …read more.
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