AC205 Advanced Coaching Techniques (2)

Facilitator: Kathy and Bill
2009/5/7, 5/14, 6/1: 1800-1900

A lot of coaching competencies based upon skill sets. We should embrace our natural strengths.

People would come to coaching with external motivation, but there is some negativeness and objections.

Be ware of who we are and our natural strengths and embrace them. Advanced coaching is about the leadership and be aware of our natural strengths.

When clients come to the coaching relationship:
- Most clients know what they don’t want but not sure they know they do want. (Creating the exact pics of what we want to have which could help the situation)

How to help clients to shift they don’t want to they want?
- Visualizing
In way way do you use the technique of the visualization?

NLP techniques:
Ask client to describe his/her situation in a third person. What are the experiences of the third person? If you are the person, what do you think that the person really feels and really needs? (I think that person needs understanding.) Can you give that person understanding? (If a person talks about himself in a third person, it would be easier for him to describe his situation and feelings.)

Clarify – help the person get clearer of what they want. We should be as specific as we could.
One technique to ask clients: How can I become happier in life from now? What could make me happier?

Book: Happier
We need to be mindful of the cultural issues.
How do we overcome when a person does not express his feeling directly?
- It’s better to do a one-on-one coaching than a group coaching.
- What do you want to achieve? When you achieve that, what do you feel?

Help clients create the life they want (hold the vision and unlock the potentials for clients until they could hold the potentials and vision themselves) – the difference of a good coach and great coach.
Goals are only tools, help people know what they want in a deeper level (really really want.) Goals change a lot of time. That’s the part of clarify

Draw the line of being coach and a friend – be professional.
Happiness: freedom from and freedom for (what brings greater freedom)

The wrong trap – something wrong is the prerequisite of consulting
Want things to change – the prerequisite of coaching

Personal effectiveness
Learn the self-care

Exercise of “are we advanced coaches?”