Coaching Coaches

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1. Safe.   Not toxic.
2. Already understands coaching.
3. Similar Experiences.
4. I have an expertise in the career profession.
5. Coaching a “normal” (non-coach) client will seem like a cake-walk after coaching coaches, people whom know a lot of the techniques.

Friend Coaching

The best coaches will make their client “feel” like the client is talking to a great, good ol’ friend.  Thus, as a coach, if I actually like the client, it’s much easier to exude a sense of friendship.  I like coaches more readily than most people because of their interpersonal courage and typically high positive self-concept, thus, coaching a coach would be easier to establish that “friend-mode” interaction and interface with the client in a more effective manner.

While you continue to ruminate on that, think of how beneficial it is for yourself, your outcomes, your clients, and your expanding and growing your own coaching business to get coaching from a (nerd) coach’s coach, here’s some awesomely useful tasty “coaches only” morsels from John:

Coaches Need Agility

Coaches unquestionably need agility in coaching sessions.  We need a lot of agility.  We may have a client who continually reverts to a state of negative self-dialogue, and we need to adroitly continue to phase that out and phase in the client’s positive self-concept; or we could have a client whom resorts to fraudulent stories that hinder the coaching process that we must nimbly dodge to then focus precisely on what the client tries to avoid but needs to address most intently.  Agility is vital to a coach.  Linguistic backbends,  advanced conversational gymanstics, and a whole heap of adroitly-applied coaching technological tools make for the best, the masterpiece, coach.  You can only elevate your level of competency and confidence above the apex level that it currently is at by gettting coaching yourself!  Do it!  Do it for your clients; do it for your business; do it for your own advancement and progress!

Leveraging Admiration to “Cook Up” Empowerment

This is a beautifully awesome and effective technique.  The ingredients for this recipe are:

• 1 ability to observe the client’s appreciation and admiration of you
• 1 client who looks up to his or her coach in one particular aspect
• 1 sentence that conveys to the client that in some specific that it is indeed the coach tha looks up to the client!
• Dash of salt
• Water helps too
• Coaching Agility

Mix all together.  Cook at 350 F.  Look what you’ve got: