Coach Skills Training Presbyterian Foundation Coach Network Laurie

Coach Skills Training Presbyterian Foundation Coach Network Laurie Ferguson, PCC Chip Low, PCC Loaves and Fishes Coaching

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ICF Definition of Coaching partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential

Core Competencies Coaching Conversation Four Parts of a Coaching Conversation Establishes and Maintains Agreements Agree Listens Actively Importance Evokes Awareness Explore Facilitates Client Growth Action

Establishes and Maintains Agreements (Agree) Four Parts of a Coaching Conversation Partners with the client and relevant stakeholders to create clear agreements about the coaching relationship, process, plans and goals. Establishes agreements for the overall coaching engagement as well as those for each coaching session. What do you want to focus on in stewardship?

Listens Actively (Importance) Four Parts of a Coaching Conversation Focuses on what the client is and is not saying to fully understand what is being communicated in the context of the client systems and to support client self -expression Three Kinds of Listening (Edgar Schein) 1. Self-oriented listening - what can I offer? What does this mean to/for me? 2. Content-empathetic listening - what is the problem, situation, issue that is being conveyed? 3. Person-empathetic listening - how is this person experiencing and feeling about the situation?

Listens Actively (Importance) Four Parts of a Coaching Conversation How can I help? What do I know about their situation? What is going on in stewardship for them? What is their presenting issue? What problem are they trying to solve? Who are they? What is meaningful for them? Who do they want to be?

Evokes Awareness (Explore) Four Parts of a Coaching Conversation Facilitates client insight and learning by using tools and techniques such as powerful questioning, silence, metaphor or analogy Questioning use curiosity! Open-ended “what” or “how” More exploring than information gathering Brief – to the point Explore what values are present – help them identify what values they are working from

Evokes Awareness (Explore) Four Parts of a Coaching Conversation Expand possibility – “what’s the third possibility you haven’t yet identified? ” Re-frame – “we are running out of money” – how else might you see that? Use of metaphors

Facilitates Client Growth (Action) Four Parts of a Coaching Conversation Partners with the client to transform learning and insight into action. Promotes client autonomy in the coaching process. Design Goals that follow from the coaching session Design Actions that move the client and stewardship forward Design Accountability with others Design Connections to their mission and vision