AC203 Empowering (1)

Facilitator: Kathy Munoz & Bill Turpin
2009/3/19, 26 & 4/2

How to handle the “discovery” session? Build up the coaching relationship?
- Be confidence of who we are and what we are doing. The confidence could empower our client to take action
- Your niches would form your coaching business practice; create your business with your unique and what serves you
- We have skills set and experience
- Welcome package with information for clients’ reference (questionnaire could be included: some questions about what directions they want go in and basic contact information). We could be prepared for the coaching session in advance.
- Discuss the questions (in welcome pack) not answered – I notice that you did not have efficient time to fill in those questions, is it O.K. for us to discuss what do you have discovered from these questions. Or we could fill out the questionnaire together.

Discovery session: coach and client could know each other first. We could grab some information from the discussion about who I am and what is coaching. Next ask if the client would like to try the coaching and then put the actual coaching into the first.

Empowerment: Increase strengths (my strengths) and building confidence (in the coaching relationship)

When you think of empowerment, what comes to your mind?
- Boundaries, Strengths, Confidence, Trust: client trust us in the coaching process

Identifying of Coachability
- How open that the client to be coached (does the person have the ability to be coached?)
- If we begin pursuing our clients to take action, we just disempowering ourselves and dynamic. When we become responsible for clients – they are not coachable.

How do we respond when we find clients are not coachable?
- Our clients are not there for themselves but someone else. (by acknowledge of that, I am empowering ourselves)
- An empowering relationship include ourselves, not only the clients