The CoachAccountable Perspective – An authentic view of what works from the receiving end of being coached

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Psychology

Attending To Our Self-Talk is Part of Your Job

Here’s a proposition for your consideration: the self-talk that arises in us clients is an opportunity for you as coach. Few coaches have ever been taught that this is so. Fewer still recognize it for the outsized lever that it is, to be either a…

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Action Planning

Healthy Coaching is Action-Oriented

There, I said it. And by implication, I’m calling out coaching relationships that aren’t action-oriented as unhealthy. I used to think this idea was, well, not necessarily self-evident, but something that clearly must be so if you sat down and thought about it for a…

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Action Planning

On “Motivated Mere Mortals”, i.e. Your Typical Clients

I’d like to acquaint you with a type of person you are apt to coach, the “Motivated Mere Mortal”. They are distinct from the another variety of person you might get to work with, what I call the “A-Students of Coaching”. Like the Motivated Mere…

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Session Notes

Session Notes Worth Earning

Thoughtfully crafted session notes are a gift you can give to us clients, even if they’re only a few sentences. It doesn’t take much to train us to eagerly anticipate them. You can add even more power and active engagement to the mix by making…

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I Dare You to Double-Dog Dare ‘Em

Do you remember running around the neighborhood as a kid, with a pack of fellow neighborhood kids, until dark, or dinner, or whenever you were called in by mom? They weren’t necessarily your best friends, but they lived right up and down the street, so…

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There to Help ‘Em Shake if Off

File this under the “things you can tell a prospect to have them appreciate what you bring”. Okay, so you know how in coaching, you’ll often be guiding us clients to reach out of our comfort zone, to try something new, to dream big and…

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Psychology

Can You Actually Help Them?

Earlier when describing how selling our your clients is boring and ordinary, I laid out the rungs of why coaches generally do what they do. The lowest rungs are self-serving (got bills to pay, wanna keep clients happy enough to keep working with me). The…

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Selling Out Your Clients is Boring and Ordinary

What are you there to do for your clients? No seriously, take a moment to really get present to the “why” of your work. And let me help guide your thought process here a little, because of course there are several, not just plausible but…

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Psychology

Big Picture Coaching vs. Spot Check

What will you talk about with your client during their next session with you? If your reflexive answer rhymes at all with “Whatever’s on their mind”, sorry, but that’s a fail, even if you find yourself in good company among fellow coaches. This default position…

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Psychology

A Tidy Case Study in How Much Execution Matters

I was in a leadership coaching program a few years back. We had virtual classroom sessions twice a week, and would have assignments to do in between. One time, the assignment was to write a letter to someone in our life. Whether we sent it…

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