By: Kim Green
It’s the first blog of 2017 and I’m ready. And, so is Lynn, who is very excited about this next part of the course. On Tuesday, she welcomed us back by finalizing the last thoughts on marketing that we started before the break. She promised that she would tell us about
By: Kim Green
It was the best of times and the worst of times…there was good news and bad news. Which do you want first?
The good news: We have been doing this amazing work of learning to be a coach since September. Now the hard work comes in.
The bad news: We have to MARKET
By: Kim Green
Mea culpa and Happy Holidays. So sorry that I have not written in a while, but that doesn’t mean that our coaching calls have not moved full steam ahead, without me. Despite my falling off track a little, truth is, I only missed one call on November 22nd (We are allowed to
By: Elizabeth Saigal, Ph.D. CLC
The idea of personal control has been central in psychology for many decades. It is a key element of Julian B. Rotter’s Social Learning Theory of Personality as well as Martin E. P. Seligman’s Theory of Learned Helplessness. According to both these
By: Kim Green
Just as my body is recovering, my heart aches. It has been said that coaching is good in times of change and transition. After last week everyone could use a coach, the winners and the losers. It is especially me that needs something, anything to pull me from my cave of
By: Kim Green
I will act as if I am feeling well and as if I have been fully engaged in this week’s classes. Picture me on last Tuesday and Thursday sprawled out on the floor, taking the class against a pile of pillows and an extra one holding the phone up so I can use speaker phone.
By: Kim Green
I had promised honesty in this blog, if nothing else.
I entered this week extremely distracted by all of the high emotion that swirls. I don’t think I’ve ever felt the weight of such collective angst like I feel right now.
On Tuesday, the first question from the group
By: Kim Green
Every week can’t be life changing or mind-blowing. This week was neither. But, it was still important. Tuesday, Lynn walked us through a new distinction: visioning. She taught us how we can use it with our clients to get them to move past their doubts and step into a new
By: Kim Green
Neutrality.
Being neutral is tough. The anxiety that surrounds the election is something that I hoped to avoid for these two sacred coaching calls…. But that is not what happened.
Now that we have learned all the names, tools and competencies, it was time to put them
By: Elizabeth Saigal, Ph.D. CLC
Towards the end of the coaching conversation coaches can sometimes use the SMART acronym to bring the client even more clarity around their way forward. This acronym is now widely used across industries for project management and personal development
