Category: Mentor Coaching
Exploring coaching practice, the ICF Core Competencies and the continuing development of coaches.
Mentor Coaching
Becoming a better coach has made me less certain.
When I received my PCC credential, I was enormously proud of it. I still am. There are hours of coaching behind those three letters, along with training, mentor coaching, feedback, recordings, assessments and a fairly substantial amount of wondering whether I was actually getting any better. You would imagine, therefore, that becoming more experienced as […]
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Coaching Supervision
Mentor Coaching
What happens when the coach doesn’t know?
There is a moment in coaching that I suspect most coaches know rather well. The client stops talking. Perhaps they have said something unexpected, perhaps the conversation has suddenly gone somewhere you hadn’t anticipated, or perhaps the beautifully formed question that was waiting patiently in your head has become completely irrelevant. Whatever has happened, you […]
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