DEFINITION: Partners with the client to transform learning and insight into action. Promotes client autonomy in the coaching process.
- Works with the client to integrate new awareness, insight or learning into their worldview and behaviors
- Partners with the client to design goals, actions and accountability measures that integrate and expand new learning
- Acknowledges and supports client autonomy in the design of goals, actions and methods of accountability
- Supports the client in identifying potential results or learning from identified action steps
- Invites the client to consider how to move forward, including resources, support and potential barriers
- Partners with the client to summarize learning and insight within or between sessions
- Celebrates the client's progress and successes
- Partners with the client to close the session
WATCH: Janet M.Harvey, MCC & Mentor Coach discusses ICF Competency 8. Facilitates Client Growth
READ: 8 ICF Core Competencies (Updated) + PDF
- Need to make this an everyday behavior – beyond coaching
- Clients can be a partners & should be partners in this practice
- Insight can be the compass for the agreed upon outcome
- “Be useful, not helpful”
- Be a catilizer and not a solutionist
- Move outside the single situation
Questions for Coaches:
- What ways do you check your own coaching assumptions?
- What outcomes have your clients had from coaching?
- What are the metrics that matter? How do you get clients to define their own?
- How do you define success with coaching?
- What ways do you engage your clients to define their own growth?
- What do you hope your client walks away from coaching with? (cope without you)
- What skills or strategies do you think of for autonomy?
- How are you getting comfortable testing assumptions?
- How do you celebrate and close out coaching with your clients?
- ASK A CLIENT:
- What changes are you going to make?
- What did you learn from today’s session?
- What are your next steps?
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What ways do you facilitate growth with your coaching clients? Share how you help others learn and grow beyond "the checklist" for development:
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