Coaching Questions 101: 7 Questions to Identify Values with Your Client! Reading Time: less than 1 min I believe that helping our clients understand themselves and what drives them is one of the most important services we provide for our clients. Values work is therefore an essential coaching tool in every... Read More...
10 Meaningful Areas to Reflect on as the New Year Approaches... Reading Time: 2 min Reflection time is not just important—it's ESSENTIAL. It gives us the opportunity to acknowledge our challenges, difficulties—and our successes. It helps us see where we have grown and what directions... Read More...
(Why) Give Your Client a HUG: A Huge Unbelievable Goal! Reading Time: 3 min I love HUGs, don't you? I'm talking about Huge Unbelievable Goals—where we inspire ourselves to live a bigger life with a huge goal: the bigger the better! The wonderful thing about HUGs is that... Read More...
Just Make Up Your Mind! 7 Fun Ways To Make Decisions Reading Time: 1 min 5 sec Have a client who can't make up their mind? Well, whether it's too much information, choice or analysis these fun ideas provide tips to help (you or!) your client make a decision - and move forwards. 7 Fun... Read More...
*UPDATED* The Most Powerful Question to Wrap up a Coaching Session - and Why! Reading Time: 2 min Over the years I have come to ask just one question to wrap-up a coaching session. But while the question remains the same, the answers vary significantly from client to client - and from week to... Read More...
The 5 Simplest Coaching Questions to Brainstorm Actions and Move Your Clients Forwards! Reading Time: less than 1 min Below are 5 of the simplest coaching questions that are super helpful when brainstorming actions. I find these questions useful in a business context because they are straightforward and immediately... Read More...
The Must-Ask Question For ALL Goals! With Questions To Explore Your Client's Goal Motivation Reading Time: 1 min 30 sec Setting goals—there's a whole science behind it! But if there was one question to ask at every goal-setting discussion what would it be? The Must-Ask Question For ALL Goals Top of my list is this... Read More...
How to Coach a Client when they Distort the Facts: A Simple 3 Step Framework Reading Time: 2 min Does your client keep distorting the facts? Do they focus on the negative and ignore the positive? Are they determined to blame others or themselves or keep jumping to conclusions? Do they keep themselves... Read More...
What is a Cognitive Distortion? And What You Need to Know About Them! Reading Time: 3 min What is a Cognitive Distortion? A Cognitive Distortion is where we focus on particular aspects of an experience (often the 'negative' ones) and ignore or discount other aspects—thereby "distorting" our... Read More...
The 5 Questions to ask when you Freeze & Don't Know What to Say Next! (with .PDF) Reading Time: 1 min 50 sec Never Get Stuck in a Coaching Session Again! It's happened to us all, especially when starting out: we freeze in a coaching session and literally can't think what to ask or say next. The great thing in... Read More...
