“Partners with the client to transform learning and insight into action. Promotes client autonomy in the coaching process”
- Works with the client to integrate new awareness, insight or learning into their worldview and behaviours
- Partners with the client to design goals, actions and...
Competency 7 of ICF Core Competencies is:
"Evokes Awareness facilitates client insight and learning by using tools and techniques such as powerful questioning, silence, metaphor or analogy."
While all the competencies have equal standing, Evoking Awareness can be a powerful and transformative...
Pic from Getty Image
Active listening is a key component of impactful coaching conversations. During active listening, the listener is fully engaged, entirely present, and wholly focused on the person they are in conversation with.
They set aside their own thoughts, assumptions, and inner...
Pic from Matt Bennett
The ICF define this as: Is fully conscious and present with the client, employing a style that is open, flexible, grounded and confident.
Being present with coaching partners means remaining focused, observant, empathetic and responsive to them as individuals and...
Pic from Alex Shute
The ICF defines this as “Partners with the client to create a safe, supportive environment that allows the client to share freely. Maintains a relationship of mutual respect and trust”
Trust and safety are hugely important components of great coaching...
Pic from Joe Gardner
Competency 3 of the ICF's core competencies, is Establishes and Maintains Agreements. Coach “partners with the client and relevant stakeholders to create clear agreements about the coaching relationship, process, plans and goals. Establishes agreements for the...
Pic from Gary Butterfield
Competency 2 from The International Coaching Federation is "Embodies a Coaching Mindset". With the definition that as coaches we develop and maintain a mindset that is open, curious, flexible and client centered.
As coaches and facilitators of coaching conversations it...
Over the next eight articles we will be discussing the Core Competencies set out by the International Coaching Federation (ICF). The ICF Core Competencies were developed to support understanding about the skills and approaches used within coaching (as defined by ICF).
The competencies...
