In July of 2017, we wrote:
We are publishing the things you as coaches want to share with your peers. You might consider it a digital conversation of show-and-tell to contribute to people who, like you, are craftspeople of the soul. When you sit down for coffee or a meal with your coaching friends, what do you share about how you do your work?
In this issue, we’ve updated our tool chest with a number of interesting and useful coaching tools for your review. We have sorted these coaching tools into four categories: (1) brief essays on coaching strategies, (2) brief essays on coaching concepts, (3) coaching questions, (4) listing of coaching resources and (5) coaching-oriented assessment instruments.
We realize that many of the tools we are offering fit into several categories; furthermore, many of these tools have appeared in previous issues of Future of Coaching or elsewhere in the Library of Professional Coaching. In several instances, we are offering you a new tool. IN the case of the previously published tools, we are offering you just the links to these tools. We have offered brief descriptions of the new tools.
Coaching Strategies
Coaching Using the Business Acumen Gauge
Trust Me: 55 Ways to Build Trust and Credibility
Team Coaching Success: Improving Observable and Measurable Impact
12 Steps to Emotionally Intelligent Health Care
The Three Words of Being Technique: David Spungin, a coach and OD consultant, outlines a simple and powerful tactic to help clients prepare for important events.
Coaching Concepts
Four Wires of Leadership; One of us (WB) offers a metaphor regarding how to assess the relative value of four different styles of leadership when working with a project team.
Coaching Questions
Say It Skillfully: A video and article from Molly Tschang, a coach and cultural facilitator with deep expertise from her time as an executive at Intel. Molly gives us a very practical perspective on how to “Say It Skillfully.” This is part of Molly’s well-reviewed series on LinkedIn.
Appreciative Questions: One of us [WB] ,along with the noted coach/consultant, Agnes Mura, provides sets of questions that are appreciative in nature, with each set of questions related to one of several different perspectives on appreciation.
Coaching Resources
Ethical Processes (ICF)
Coaching Evidence: One of us [WB] provides a list of coaching resources, along with an abridged list of articles (derived from an extensive list offered by Lew Stern) which focus on evidence regarding coaching effectiveness
Coaching-Oriented Assessment Instruments
TEAM: Design of Teams for Effectiveness
We hope that you will be able to use one or more of these tools. Please let us know what you like, what you use, what you adapt—and please send us your tools so we can include your contribution to our common tool chest!
William Bergquist
William Carrier
Co-Editors
The Future of Coaching