How do you develop your coaching style and model as a lifelong learner and practitioner?

Knowing yourself means knowing what you have overcome as well, and articulating that pain, emotions and frustrations that got you to your victory will build trust and following amongst your clients. They will be ready and willing to be vulnerable finding it a safe place to share their feelings and allowed to be led to conquer their battles.

I am fascinated by how, as a coach, I navigate my learning journey using the Daniel Ofman model. Crafting a coaching style is rooted in leveraging strengths, but in coaching and life, excessive strength can become a pitfall. Balancing challenge and empathy is key. Too much strength lacks acknowledgment, too much challenge loses empathy, and excessive empathy dilutes radical candor. Our coaching style should be flexible, not a shield. Transforming from rigidity to plasticity involves taming our strengths.

I believe that having being through a journey of what one tends to teach others , as well as knowing yourself from deep inside allows you to become an expert in your field. But the learning never stops, by adapting a continuous commitment to study and adapt the necessary information required in one’s field only leads to the ultimate results for both parties involved.

Constantly evaluate and update your coaching style and model, based on your own performance, feedback from your students, and changes in your context. You should also identify and address any gaps or areas of development that you have as a coach, such as knowledge, skills, competencies, or attitudes

Always be encouraging - we are always learning. Do not treat everyone as the same, we are all different and have different strengths and weaknesses.

In the realm of business, and particularly in e-commerce, Accounting & Finance, as well as Tech, I've discerned that understanding one's audience is analogous to understanding one's clients in coaching. To truly resonate and effect change, it's not enough to simply know our tools or methods. It's about discerning the nuances of each client's aspirations, barriers, and worldviews. My entrepreneurial endeavors reinforced the principle that success is not solely predicated on the product we offer, but on how intuitively we grasp the needs of those we serve. As coaches, cultivating this deep understanding and using tailored approaches not only enhances trust but also galvanizes transformative journeys for our clients.

You start from there. My own simple way is to spend an hour listening to clients story and making my own notes picking up the key points which then help me move forward.. Yeah, knowing clients is essential for a coach.

I prefer to get to know my clients through coaching conversations. That way, my client can also get to know about me. That dynamics is crucial in building lasting rapport and what nought. Sometimes, I feel many novice coaches over-prepare themselves in 'knowing your client.' As a result, they would come across as aloof, offish and distanced. Know that we as human would always feel apprehensive to divulge anything too personal, especially during the initial phase of coaching. To me, I always remind myself as I go into a coaching session to converse from the heart while keeping track on the coaching outcome(s).

Knowing and understanding your clients is vitally important. Having an understanding on what they want, what has happened in the past and what has brought them to where they currently are right now will paint the picture of what they need to make the necessary changes in there life and or business. When we understand how our beliefs, behaviours and self-image operates it gives us the knowledge to become what others may have not thought was possable in the past.

A vital measure of how well a coach partners and supports bringing about outcomes for their client is how quickly they get to know them, as detailed by what makes their client successful and partnering with them to make their client meet their goals

Great point. We all are generally stuck in the content. The "what" The real focus should be on the "who", or a combination of the two, at a higher level (not mere balance or average, as the mind looks at it!) "Coach the spider, not the web"

In my journey, especially within the fast-paced Startup world, I've learned the imperativeness of adaptability. Each business scenario has its unique nuances, akin to varied coaching environments. It's crucial to not just focus on the transactional aspect, but to deeply consider the encompassing context. This means understanding the 'why' behind our actions, ensuring our approach adheres to both ethical and professional paradigms, and continually calibrating based on situational demands. Just as in business, where the ecosystem dictates strategy shifts, in coaching, the setting, purpose, and ethics should guide our methodologies, ensuring each engagement is impactful and aligned.

Know your context - not only between the coach and the client, but also in relation to the client's stakeholders. There are many factors that contribute to a certain situation and those factors ought to be considered while deciding on the context for coaching. Sometimes, these factors can be so well hidden (or deemed unrelated) that it may only emerge at a later stage of the coaching engagement. So again, it's good practice to revisit the context regularly to ensure that the coaching remains highly effective to all concern.

Think of the context as a tea or coffee cup that holds the content you teach. The context encompasses among other things values, mission, vision and purpose and standards. If the context breaks in business, you are bankrupt. If the context breaks in a marriage, it means divorce. There are many ways the context can crack; some are when you don't walk the talk as a coach (being incongruent) or breach confidentiality so that the customers can't trust you. An important aspect is that the higher performance and results desired, the tighter the context needs to be. Just think of different contexts at NASA and at a random garage in your town.

Knowing about the context of coaching activity is very important. Until the context or objective will not be clear, this entire exercise will remain worthless. Context is also helping us to decide which tools we should use or how much time and efforts will be required to achieve the desire outcomes.

One of the most valuable traits a coach can possess is curiosity and a deep love of learning. The more you can bring to the table from different modalities and resources, the richer the experience you will create for your client. Personally, I love to blend my deep NLP skills with other coaching methods to provide tailormade solutions to my clients.

As executive coaches, we are committed to lifelong learning and self-transformation. Get off the treadmill of certifications, instead, focus on real, deep learning. CCEUs for renewals should be looked at as a great learning opportunity instead of a credential renewal requirement. Reflective practice is a critical element of continuous learning.

Précédemment j'ai cité Eliayahu Goldratt, mais mes sources d'inspiration se trouvent dans des domaines aussi variées que la connaissance de l'ennégramme, que les enseignements riches proposés par RESO "méditer, se former, être ensemble", et d'autres encore autour du cheminement vers soi comme Franck Lopvet, Arnaud Desjardins etc...

The most dangerous words in the English language are "I know that". This phrase shuts down your mind and make you closed. If you stop adapting and learning, you will eventually be out of business because the only thing that is guaranteed, is that the world will change, and so will the people in it. Despite there being some fundamental principles to human psyche, it is important to stay up to speed with what is on the mind of your audience, how to reach them and what you can give to your audience to make them fulfilled. Moreover, "what you dont know, you dont know", so exploring resources allows us to elevate to the next level of our coaching services

They say the best ‘leaders are readers’ and the same can be said for coaches. The foundation of coaching is asking powerful questions. As coaches we propel our capability and adaptability to this by continuously exposing our minds to new perspectives, theories, frameworks, ideas and practical case studies. We can also bring value to our coaching clients when we share resources that help broaden their minds to support change and growth.

A growth mindset is key to learning, growth and change. We can guide a coaching client to develop a growth mindset, and we also need to nurture this in ourselves, and practically translate this into our daily, weekly, monthly and annual routines.

Always learn from your last coaching session and use that as a groundwork for what can be improved in the next iteration. It's incredibly important that your coaching muscle is constantly being worked and improved through revisiting each session/lesson and finding opportunities to refine and update the information. Don't be afraid to offer ideas to be tested and request feedback on how well the idea worked. If it didn't accomplish the outcome expected, welcome the feedback and work to find a new solution. Coaches are far from perfect, and coaching from a place of humility will always inspire others and earn their respect.

Being humble is one aspect to being real and vulnerable, and people connect with this. Knowing your gaps also means to be truthful when you know that there are other sources than yourself that might serve the client the best. Thus, knowing your gaps is all about putting the client's needs first

That's why it's absolutely vital to ask for feedback at the end of each coaching session. Take special notice on recurring comments. If necessary, go back to them and seek for further feedback and feedforward. In fact, this is one of the most effective ways to strengthen your rapport with your coaching participants. They would be convinced that you're walking your talk as a champion of continuous improvement.

Every coaching session offers an opportunity for evaluation. To look for where you could have asked a different question, approached it from a different perspective, used a different tool from your toolbelt. At the same time, it's staying curious about other techniques and modalities and considering how they could complement or amplify how you currently create results for your clients.

Unless you are passionate about life and what it entails to be happy and joyous and making it more meaningful, and you have learnt that by working on yourself, you can never be a passionate coach. Certification will give skill and not passion, not that madness, not that purpose to make a difference in lives of others. Experience matters. Passion adds. RS

Ayudar a otras personas debe ser un asunto vocacional. Sentir pasión por acompañar a otras personas a encontrar sus propósitos de vida, tanto personales como profesionales, es de vital importancia para que se puedan llevar a cabo procesos de coaching con excelentes resultados. Estar permanentemente en formación, amar lo que haces, es la clave para seguir creciendo como coach.

Be passionate about the process. The process is bigger than the coach, coachee, and client organization. Surrender to the process, as in to Higher Consciousness

Celebration is key to action and progress. Even celebrate the outcome in advance to put yourself in a great state. In my experience, the process becomes a lot more fun and enjoyable when we are in a beautiful state of positive anticipation, joy, passion and curiosity. Once you delivered, celebrate and acknowledge yourself because we can only build on success. Just think of how you celebrate your clients' wins to encourage them to keep going. How often do you take the time to pat yourself on the shoulder?

Coacher c'est d'abord de l'autocoaching de vie, être dans l'ouverture est un apprentissage face aux événements que la vie place sous vos pas construisant votre chemin. Vous êtes le chef de cordée de vos clients que vous coachez. Etre dans l'ouverture, c'est être réceptif à de nouveaux éclairages: l'expérience, stages et formations points d'appuis de votre coaching. Initialement, il y a toujours un entretien préalable, la détermination des attentes puis en fin de parcours de coaching, une séance de clôture validant les objectifs atteints, le cheminement en cours, la méthode, la satisfaction. Pas de KPI ici, mais clients satisfaits et moins satisfaits, témoignages sont les sources de notre notoriété et de vos avancées.

The best coach is the coach who can help you to peel back your layers, find your blindspots and excel in your goals. To do that effectively, the coach has to have a combination of: Skills and knowledge they have acquired through ongoing professional development, Deep expertise in the field they are working in, The 'soft' skills to establish psychological safety and build trust and rapport, The Coaching Toolkit to navigate the situations that present themselves and The Faith in themselves, to get out of the way and make space for the client to feel heard, valued and understood. These take a commitment to life-long learning and continuous improvement.

Coaching is not just about helping and guiding. It's about driving ones self to be a master of what one should and can do, to bring transformation in lives and create an impact without influencing. It's an unbiased art of allowing and supporting one to find their natural strengths and evolve further to create an impact in their own way. One should understand that being a coach is all about ones ability to listen and learn from everything and everyone they come across with patience and attention to details and without bias. further shaping ones selves to be adaptive and accommodative to achieve, Dream and Drive. A good coach is one will have the power, patience to change the world and generations ahead!

All our sales & marketing, our credentials, experience, and reference would connect us with potential clients. Clients sign up for who we are as coaches, not what we have accomplished. What then matters is the quality of coaching. My coaching approach has evolved from IQ/experience to EQ & SQ-based format. #IQ2EQ2SQ

To keep growing and developing as a coach it’s important to attend co coaching sessions where you can learn from your peers and be given feedback to support your learning and growth. Alongside co coaching practice supervision will ensure that your practice is ethical and clean. What I mean by clean is that if you notice any transference within the session then supervision is a place to explore your own observations and to further explore any unconscious transactions that might be present in the relationship. It’s also an opportunity to explore different perspectives and reflect on your learnings. New insights can often emerge in supervision as you have opportunities for reflection and/or discussion about future sessions with a client.

Votre coach est un appui, un guide quasi invisible dans votre cordée professionnelle, personnelle, votre cordée de vie mais cela reste quelqu’un qui peut vous interpeller, vous amener à réfléchir, à vous imprégner de notions ou de choses sur lesquelles vous pensiez ne pas être concerné. Il sera un catalyseur, révélateur mais en aucun cas, il ne substitue à vos choix, vos façons de faire, vous restez aux commandes de votre vie dans votre démarche d’accomplissement.