Strengths assessment Please complete the strengths assessment: Values in Action Inventory of Strengths (VIA-IS) by going to (). The survey will take 30 minutes, and you will receive a free report ranking your character strengths. The top 5 of your…
The task for the preparation stage is to assist the client in envisaging her future life, verbalizing her intrinsic goals in detail, and converting the goals into action plans. This turns the change intention achieved in the previous contemplation stage…
{Van Coller-Peter & de Vries, 2022. Towards building theory on coachee readiness. International Journal of Evidence-Based Coaching and Mentoring, Vol. 20(1)} Client readiness Lack of client readiness impacts negatively on coaching effectiveness. Readiness is linked to commitment. Client readiness must…
High social and emotional intelligence levels are essential for professional coaches. Writings by Dr. Daniel Goleman and Dr. Laura Belsten on these intelligences underpin our thinking about assessing individuals’ capacities in these areas. When considering the social intelligence quotient (SQ)…
{Scales, Pickering, & Senior, 2011. Continuing Professional Development in the Lifelong Learning Sector.} My professional values, knowledge, understanding, and practice standards for specialist learning and teaching are based on LLUK Professional Standards Domain C. I am committed to CS1 Understanding,…
{Scales, Pickering, & Senior, 2011. Continuing Professional Development in the Lifelong Learning Sector.} Daily, we are doing research by questioning ourselves about our teaching and our students’ learning and then adapting or changing our practice to improve. Action research and…
{Scales, Pickering, & Senior, 2011. Continuing Professional Development in the Lifelong Learning Sector.} The main steps in reflective practice; have an experience, recapture your experience, think about it, mull it over, and evaluate it. Reflective practice is the starting point…
{Scales, Pickering, & Senior, 2011. Continuing Professional Development in the Lifelong Learning Sector.} This document serves as my Continuing Professional Development (CPD) plan and decision tool. I situate myself as a practitioner in adult and lifelong learning. Adult learning has…
{Hawkins, 2010. In Passmore (Ed.), Excellence in Coaching: The Industry Guide. 2nd Ed.} Supervision in coaching is formal professional support to ensure continuing coach development and coaching practice effectiveness through interactive reflection, integrative evaluation, and the sharing of expertise. Supervision…
{Campone, 2011. In Passmore (Ed.), Supervision in Coaching: Supervision, Ethics, and Continuous Professional Development} Introduction As a reflective practitioner, I intentionally draw upon my experiences in practice to refine and extend my knowledge and skill. For my ongoing development as…
I am a coaching practitioner, and I have identified the following practice areas for improvement and enhancing effectiveness, going from surface to deeper layers or structures: Skills, Knowledge, Social role & values, Self-image, Traits, Motives. Skills: Do I have the…
Coaches are always in a state of becoming, perfecting their craft, learning, and deepening their foundation. This checklist helps identify areas where you might focus future training, coursework, or personal development. Of course, depending on your specific coaching niche, there…
{Spurlock, 2013. Business Development: A Practical Guide for the Small Professional Services Firm} Key Concepts Be clear on what you are trying to accomplish in your meeting. The first meeting will lay the groundwork for a long-term relationship. Develop a…
Some Meditations on My Approach to Coaching Is coaching effective for change and growth? What approaches are better and more effective in creating and sustaining change? What theoretical perspective provides a foundation for an evidence-based approach? By linking coaching practice…
What does collective life look like in 2022? Individuals are left to themselves to cope with all the confusions arising from modern disembodied techno-social life, confusions that manifest in self as splitting, fracturing, sabotaging, deception, and shadow. Differentiation and integration…
{Spurlock, 2013. Business Development: A Practical Guide for the Small Professional Services Firm} Introduction Your BDP is a guidebook for each BD effort you undertake. If an opportunity is presented, it must fit within your plan and the goals you’ve…
Identify the Leader’s Understanding of Your Role (1) Look for misalignment in expectations about your role between you and the leader. (2) Avoid taking on Rescue Model activities. Get the Right Contract (1) Work for sponsor-agent alignment. (2) Ensure all…
{O’Neill, 2007. Executive Coaching With Backbone and Heart} The Roots of the Coaching Phases {The ‘research’ activity in action research is part of a continuous cycle of research, experimentation, and improvement in which participants continue to review, evaluate, and improve…
{Burger & Van Coller-Peter, 2019. A guiding framework for multi-stakeholder contracting in executive coaching. SAJHRM.} Contractual Elements: Accountability; Confidentiality; Goal attainment – organizational and individual Here is an approach that recognizes the multiple systems of which the client and the…
I engage in a marketing conversation with you to move the marketing game forward. There is a flow to the conversation, a combination of talking and listening. I go from preparation to marketing conversation to selling conversation to presentation and…