DEFINITION: Partners with the client to transform learning and insight into action. Promotes client autonomy in the coaching process.

1. Works with the client to integrate new awareness, insight or learning into their worldview and behaviors
2. Partners with the client to design goals, actions and accountability measures that integrate and expand new learning
3. Acknowledges and supports client autonomy in the design of goals, actions and methods of accountability
4. Supports the client in identifying potential results or learning from identified action steps
5. Invites the client to consider how to move forward, including resources, support and potential barriers
6. Partners with the client to summarize learning and insight within or between sessions
7. Celebrates the client's progress and successes
8. Partners with the client to close the session

WATCH: Janet M.Harvey, MCC & Mentor Coach discusses ICF Competency 8. Facilitates Client Growth

READ: 8 ICF Core Competencies (Updated) + PDF

• Need to make this an everyday behavior – beyond coaching
• Clients can be a partners & should be partners in this practice
• Insight can be the compass for the agreed upon outcome
• “Be useful, not helpful”
• Be a catilizer and not a solutionist
• Move outside the single situation

Questions for Coaches:

• What ways do you check your own coaching assumptions?
• What outcomes have your clients had from coaching?
• What are the metrics that matter? How do you get clients to define their own?
• How do you define success with coaching?
• What ways do you engage your clients to define their own growth?
• What do you hope your client walks away from coaching with? (cope without you)
• What skills or strategies do you think of for autonomy?
• How are you getting comfortable testing assumptions?
• How do you celebrate and close out coaching with your clients?
• ASK A CLIENT:
  • What changes are you going to make?
  • What did you learn from today’s session?
  • What are your next steps?

RESOURCE:

• Partners podcast
• Mentor Coaching
• Find a Coach - ICF Credential Coach Finder Directory
• Hiring Tips when looking for a coach
• Want to be a coach? ICF's Resource: https://becomea.coach/

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What ways do you facilitate growth with your coaching clients? Share how you help others learn and grow beyond "the checklist" for development:

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• Email us at: coachingthroughit@gmail.com
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DEFINITION: Facilitates client insight and learning by using tools and techniques such as powerful questioning, silence, metaphor or analogy.

1. Considers client experience when deciding what might be most useful
2. Challenges the client as a way to evoke awareness or insight
3. Asks questions about the client, such as their way of thinking, values, needs, wants and beliefs
4. Asks questions that help the client explore beyond current thinking
5. Invites the client to share more about their experience in the moment
6. Notices what is working to enhance client progress
7. Adjusts the coaching approach in response to the client's needs
8. Helps the client identify factors that influence current and future patterns of behavior, thinking or emotion
9. Invites the client to generate ideas about how they can move forward and what they are willing or able to do
10. Supports the client in reframing perspectives
11. Shares observations, insights and feelings, without attachment, that have the potential to create new learning for the client

WATCH: ICF Core Competency 7: Evokes Awareness with Giuseppe Totino, MCC
READ: 8 ICF Core Competencies (Updated) + PDF

• Asking the question: this would be to go deeper for the client to process
• Shares Observations & Noticing: without any attachment
• Silence: hold the space to allow their thoughts, feelings, and emotions to get to completion

Questions

• What sort of questions do you ask without any attachment?
• What ways do you encourage the client to make their own choices?
• What stories are you telling yourself?
• What’s one way you could move this forward?
• What words or patterns are you noticing about your clients?
• How do you "sit back" as a coach to notice?
• What ways do you present thoughts without attachment?
• What way do you let go of your own ego, as a coach?
• What does “good” coaching look like for you?
• What possibilities do you offer your clients
• ASK A CLIENT:
  • What if… ?
  • What are you taking away from this session?
  • What actions do you want to take from this?
  • What’s one way to move this forward?

RESOURCE: ICF Converge Conference

TOOLS: Limiting Beliefs (Coaching Exercises)

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How are you evoking a response, dear coach? Tell us about it:

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DEFINITION: Focuses on what the client is and is not saying to fully understand what is being communicated in the context of the client systems and to support client self-expression.

1. Considers the client’s context, identity, environment, experiences, values and beliefs to enhance understanding of what the client is communicating
2. Reflects or summarizes what the client communicated to ensure clarity and understanding
3. Recognizes and inquires when there is more to what the client is communicating
4. Notices, acknowledges and explores the client's emotions, energy shifts, non-verbal cues or other behaviors
5. Integrates the client's words, tone of voice and body language to determine the full meaning of what is being communicated
6. Notices trends in the client's behaviors and emotions across sessions to discern themes and patterns

WATCH: Sackeena Gordon-Jones, MCC
READ: ICF Core Competency 6: Listens Actively

• Hear clients and having clients feel heard
• If we don’t hear them it’s impossible to help them gain clarity
• Not hear for our sake as a coach, but to help the client hear themselves
• Difference between old competency “active listening” and new
  • New focuses on the verb
  • Speaks to the “being and the doing” of the coach
  • Part of what we give is listening – with all senses
• Listening "to the whole person" -- what the client is saying, not saying, etc.
• What is the coach noticing and observing, and how are they reflecting it back to the client?
  • When the words of a client may not align with their tone, body language, expressions, etc.
• Crafting questions based on the observations of your listening e.g. “I’m noticing…"

Questions:

• How do you help your client hear themselves?
• What ways do you make your clients feel heard?
• How do you exist or “be” a coach?
• What does active listening mean to you now?
• How do your clients respond to what you share?
• Can you think of a time when you were not actively listening?
• What ways do you listen to the whole client? E.g. body, non-verbals, context
• How do you listen from the client’s perspective? (empathetic listening)
• What do you notice or observe with clients? (to disrupt a client’s thinking)
• What ways do you take pause to listen better?

Book: The Listening Path by Julie Cameron
Review: Emotional Intelligence

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• Email us at: coachingthroughit@gmail.com
• Connect to the hosts: @laurapasquini & @julieclarsen

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