Sorting out values is a way of sorting out life choices, because when the choices reflect the coachee’s values, life is more satisfying and often feels effortless. Achieving a certain goal can be very fulfilling—especially as a benchmark—but most coachees find that fulfillment is not the finish line. At its

Speaking the Truth

Self-Management

Orientation to Coaching

Coaching activates the imagination and enlists the power of curiosity. The neuroscience research reinforces what coaches have known from experience: where the attention goes, energy flows. And that energy is generative. It actually creates new neural pathways—new attitudes, new beliefs, new expectations, and, over time, new results that are sustain

The five contexts are always in play.

In your eagerness to help coachees move forward, you, as coach, may be tempted to break the problems down into bite-sized bits and brainstorm solutions, to get results quickly and move past all that sluggishness or spinning wildly. Instead, balance coaching starts with the way coachees look at the situation; the need for different action is not the

Surely the most sensitive of these dimensions is spirit. Spirit is the most elusive term to define, coming by many different names and different expressions, but it is present with every human being. In coaching, spirit is not limited to a form of spirituality and certainly not to a religion. But there is a spirit dimension that influences human ch

Narrowing the action list is the step that moves us from conversation into reality.