take charge of your life - a group coaching experience

Take Charge of Your Life!

A Group Coaching Experience

Lillian J. LeBlanc, Professional Certified Coach [email protected]

What is Coaching?

What does the word

“coaching” mean to you?

Lillian J. LeBlanc, Professional Certified Coach

What is Coaching?

Coaching Is: A partnership between coach

and coachee.

A process for the coachee to discover what’s best for him or

her.

A forward-looking, positively focused way to explore

options and opportunities.

Coaching Is Not:

A method to get an expert’s advice on what to do. •  (That’s “consulting.”)

Observing and learning from a seasoned professional. •  (That’s “mentoring.”)

A way to apply a quick fix. •  (That’s usually not effective.)


“Consulting brings expertise to the coachee, coaching brings expertise out of the coachee.”

Did You Know…

�  Anyone can call him/herself a “coach”. �  There is no license or certification required.

�  Many who say they are coaches have little or no formal coach training.

�  Many coaching programs are just a few hours long.

�  Being an effective coach takes years of practice. �  Great coaches are trained to L-I-S-T-E-N �  Great coaches are trained to understand that the

coachee has the answers – the coach supports discovery, awareness and action.


RACE to Find A Great Coach!

Great Coach!

Relationship •  Assess your “fit” with

the coach’s style

Accolades • References, Referrals,

Recommendations

Credentials • What qualifies this

person to serve as a coach? (Look especially for coach-specific training. It makes a difference!)

Experience • Many of the best

coaches have professional and/or life experience in their areas of specialty.


Basic Coaching Ethics •  Avoid misuse of influence •  Recognize personal issues •  Respect different approaches

Professional Conduct

•  Communicate role and boundaries •  Construct clear agreements •  Avoid involvement •  Refer as appropriate

Conduct with Coachees

•  Full disclosure to coachee •  Avoid personal benefit Conflicts of Interest

•  “Las Vegas” (what happens in coaching stays in coaching)

•  Obtain agreement before sharing any information

Confidentiality and Privacy


How Does Coaching Work?

Dialogue Trust Honesty Deep Hearing

Powerful Inquiry,

Observa-tion and

Comment

Core Issue Identifica-tion and

Ownership

Action and

Account-ability

Sustained Change

And Transfor-mation


Accountability

Partnership

Powerful Questions: The Core of Great Coaching

�  Examples of Great Questions �  What would you do if you

knew you couldn’t fail? �  What’s holding you back? �  What does the ideal

situation look like? �  What changes are within

your power? �  What are you willing to give

up? �  Which of the options you

identified would work best for you?

�  Examples of Not So Great Questions �  Why don’t you try this? �  My cousin had the exact

same thing happen, do you want to know how he fixed it?

�  What happened in your past to cause this problem?

�  Why are you having such trouble with <insert issue>?


Word Power �  What comes to mind when you hear….

�  Challenge �  Organized �  Crazy �  Special

Do your answers change based on way the word was said? Great coaches are able to let go of assumptions about the meaning of words. They probe to understand what the word means to the coachee.


Are You Ready for Coaching?

•  Do you have a genuine interest in self-improvement? Willing and open?

•  Are you willing to invest the time to be coached and to follow through?

Time to invest in yourself?

•  Coaching looks forward, not back. Coaching transforms in a positive way.

Confident and positive?

•  Coaching is goal focused. Start with a goal that is easy to understand and feasible to attain. (Your coach can help you create or refine it.)

Have an achievable goal?


Our Coaching Agreement Values *

1.  Participate fully

2.  Communicate your needs

3.  If your needs are not being met, say so

4.  Respect and support others �  Help them clarify their

needs; exchange information to meet their needs.

Ground Rules *

1.  Start/end on time

2.  Confidentiality

3.  Manage your time �  Be succinct

4.  All opinions are honored

�  No “wrong” opinions

5.  Respectful disagreement is OK


* Developed by Authenticity Consulting, LLC for “Facilitating Coaching Groups”

Your Turn! �  Roles:

�  Coach

�  Coachee �  Timekeeper

�  Observer �  Observer - participants


For More Information Further Reading

Lillian J. LeBlanc, PCC

Professional Certified Coach

[email protected]

Contact Me:

Benefits of Using a Coach: International Coach Federation

Before You Hire a Coach: International Coach Federation


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