AC203 Empowering (2)

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

What are ways that you tend to routinely disempowering yourself?
- procrastinating (延遲), confidence, frustration, self-doubt

Many of us are struggling in disempowering ourselves. We need to break out the unhappiness and do something to increase our strengths and confidence.

What could a client do to empower the relationship?
- A simple act of acknowledgement
- Listening is a form of acknowledgement
- Be honest, truthful, committed (help our clients understand how could them empower the relationship)

How can you empower the relationship?
- Follow up
- Be proactive and create a safe environment
- Be truthful
- With humor
- Addressing expectation and clarify what those expectation are. Clients must know the expectation to them.
- Clear defined standards and boundaries that empower me and clients. (Standards and boundaries are part of creating structure and creating confidence) (Standards: Clients expect from me; Boundaries: I expect from clients)
- Clearly defined roles: what is my role and client’s role is or not.

How can you empower the relations at the beginning (the first session)?
- Ask clients: what are you expecting?
What kinds of things disempower the relationship at the beginning?
- Coach talks too much: we disempower that person
- Any kind of judgment
- Assumptions

Powerful coaching is not about being a powerful coach. It’s about the empower of client’s experiences. The power is not coming from the coach, but coming from the relationship. It’s about discovering their resources, strengths and possibilities (potential).
When a clients come to us. They fed themselves with problems but we help them to see their potentials (reframe their perspectives about themselves)

Empowering is about partnership of the coaching : Self-aware, self-decisive and take self-directed action.