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

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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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AI in Coaching

Saving Time is the Booby Prize

Overheard among CoachAccountable users contemplating how they could use AI in their coaching: …I’ve experimented with a few note keeping tools but want to see what/if I can integrate into CA so that actions falling out of conversations can potentially be generated more easily Regular…

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Action Planning

Make Sure Your Clients Own the Action Plan

CoachAccountable, the software platform I created to make coaching better, allows both the coach and client the ability to create client action plans. Either party can type in the what, choose the by-when, and set however many reminders at whatever desired timing. This open-endedness of…

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AI in Coaching

Will You Let the Sycophancy of AI Infect Your Coaching?

Now that we’ve taken a beat to consider how sycophancy is the low road (however tempting it might be for coaching), let’s consider a latent danger for those eager to weave the latest AI hawtness into how they deliver their coaching. A not-terribly surprising study…

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Psychology

Sycophancy is the Low Road

Let’s check the dictionary for this one. Ah, here we are: sycophancy, noun. The fawning behavior of a sycophant; servile flattery. You know what’s a great way to get someone to like you, and jibe with what you have to say? Agree with them. …

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Showcasing Style

More Than Just Conversations

Carefully consider the physical, observable form of what it is you offer in your coaching service. What is it, as in what actually comprises it? Does it leave a trace after it’s over? In a world in which there is ambiguity of whether it was…

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Psychology

Courage to Acknowledge Failure

Finishing up an Engagement? Great! Now is the time to review with your client those clear, up-front intentions! Practically no coaches do this. Have the courage anyway, to acknowledge whichever intentions that were not fulfilled. By taking the time, you get to model for your…

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Psychology

Clear, Up-Front Intentions

“Why bother to have this coach/coachee relationship at all?” At the top of an engagement you should look your client square in the eye and ask this question. Why? All too often the answer is taken as a foregone conclusion, and why wouldn’t it be? …

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Psychology

We are Paying You to Make Us Believe that You Care

And anything that shatters that illusion makes us less eager to keep paying you. How do you make us believe that you care? By tracking with our story By knowing where we’ve been and what we’re up to By having all your words be your…

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Session Notes

The Session Notes are the Product

Here’s a novel twist on what you produce as a coach: Session Notes. Not conversations, not insights, not breakthroughs, not even results in cold, hard numbers. Session Notes. Your job? It’s to produce notes from your sessions. Bear with me here. This is not literally…

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