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What can you do to work through the conflict when each of the 4 personality profiles have different “motivators”? “Get it done” or “Get recognized”, “Get harmony” or finally “Get it Right”? When we seek first to understand our own behavior, and how we react in stressful situations and how we respond to …Read More
How do you know when a client is ready for coaching? Sometimes a potential client may appear to be ready for coaching, and a few questions right up front can help answer “how coachable” is the client?” Here are a few questions for you to consider. 1. I can be relied upon …Read More
How do you coach your clients to live in their “sweet spot?” At Christian Coach Institute, we train our coaches on how to help clients understand, and embrace their personality traits, life and career experiences, talents and strengths, spiritual gifts and core values. The convergence of all of these is your client’s “sweet spot.” …Read More
How do you develop the heart of a coach? One of my favorite books on coaching is Leadership Coaching by Tony Stoltzfus and we list several of his books on our resource page. I believe that developing the heart of a coach is THE core competency of a Christian Life Coach, and this is the …Read More
As coaches, we support and encourage our clients toward achieving goals in areas where they feel stuck. Many times the reason for feeling stuck is “fear.” Fear of failure, fear of not being sure the timing is right, fear of rejection, and so many other self-sabotaging beliefs are holding them back. Some even fear success. …Read More
“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious” ~ Albert Einstein Powerful, thought-provoking questions can help a client to think outside the box, discover new territory, jump-start creativity and evoke a response from the heart. Keep the question short and to the point using less than 10 words. If you are a new …Read More
IAC Coaching Mastery #3 is Engaged Listening and in the ICF Core Competencies, Core Competency #5 is Active Listening so as you can see, the IAC and ICF core coaching skill in this area are in alignment. I will refer to this skill as Engaged Listening since CCI (Christian Coach Institute) is a licensed Coaching …Read More
SMART Goals Help Build a Successful Coaching Practice Are you a coach working to build your coaching practice? Smart coaches recognize the need to spend time in goal setting. And, as Christian coaches, we want to be prayerful and seek God’s guidance to make sure we are following His plan, and not giving God our …Read More
Our last profile to look at through the lens of the DiSC profile is our “C” – “Compliance” (Melancholy or Beaver). As a coach who is a high “C”, you are reserved and more task-oriented than people oriented and you like structure around your coaching sessions so the call prep form and clients who show …Read More
On 2 previous posts, we discussed how a coach can use the DiSC Assessment as a tool for building rapport with clients, and how to apply this knowledge to improve coaching effectiveness. Let’s look now at the “S” – “Steadiness” (Phlegmatic, or the Golden Retriever). As a coach, and a high “S” on the DiSC profile …Read More
