Best Practices »
In this section you will find articles discussing the foundational elements of coaching, particularly best practices. If you have articles describing best practices of coaching to submit, please visit the article submission page and follow the guidelines there. If you wish to sponsor this category, please visit the sponsor page. Thank you, and enjoy!
Appreciating the Story
As coaches we listen to our clients stories. We are trained to stand as witness or observer to our clients’ experiences without ourselves becoming enmeshed or “hooked by” the stories they tell us. Our
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Assessment Instruments to be Used in Conjunction with Professional Coaching: A Resource List
The instruments in this document have been presented to illustrate the broad range of resources that are available for instrument-based coaching and to point to several places where an organizational coach might turn when
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Being Authentic in Challenging Coaching Relationships
As coaches or managers, are you coaching anyone who you think doesn’t want to be coached, or says they do but doesn’t appear to be listening to you?
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Coaching in Organizations: A Status Report (Past, Present and Future)
The field of professional coaching has matured during the past decade. Now seems to be an appropriate time to offer a status report concerning the past, present and future of this emerging human service
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Coaching Questions: Encouraging Divergent (“If”) Thinking
A series of “If” questions are presented that encourage a coaching client to expand their horizon and move in new directions with regard to both their thinking and their actions
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Coaching Questions: Identification of Client, Audience,Stakeholders and Accountability
The following set of questions should be considered by the person doing the coaching and in most instances should be directly addressed by the person receiving the coaching services
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Coaching Questions: Nature of Coach/Client Interactions
The following set of questions provide guidance for the coach and client in the establishment of a consistent and productive coaching process
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Coaching Questions: The Exiting Process
A set of 10 questions is offered that should be considered by a professional coach in bringing a coaching engagement to a close
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Executive Coaching in India
In India, Executive coaching is an idea whose time has come. The idea is catching on as more and more organisations are turning to coaches to build a leadership pipeline faster. IBM has more
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Expansion: Coaching for Groups and Teams
As the industry continues to grow and evolve, movement beyond the one-to-one executive coaching model typically offered at the highest levels of organizations to a more collaborative group and team model can provide an
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