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

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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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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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