Co-Active Coaching

As a leadership competency, balance is about the choices leaders make for their personal sense of creating flow, but it is also about the impact of their leadership. The choices leaders make lead to more balance or less for the team and organization, and in the process they become the visible creators and models for how choices are made in that cul

For leaders, this approach accesses a mind-set that includes a focus on both results (action) and on growth (learning).

Formula for Balance Coaching The formula for moving from stuck to possibility and from possibility to action has five steps: (1) perspectives,

We start with this assertion: people are, by their very nature, naturally creative, resourceful, and whole. They are capable:

You, as the coach, are in a better position to ask these questions because you are not distracted by self-sabotaging talk, or history, or the opinions of colleagues and the feelings of loved ones, or anything else.

It means speaking fiercely to the courageous part of your coachees while ignoring the part that is self-sabotaging. You

the co-active approach, this conversation is a collaboration, and the five contexts are what the coach brings in order to create the optimal conditions for the coachee’s outcome.

The absence of real listening is especially prevalent at work. Under pressure to get the job done, we listen for the minimum of what we need to know so we can move on to the next fire that needs fighting. The

The spaciousness of the relationship requires that coachees have many channels open to creative inspiration and not be restricted to the coach’s good ideas, no matter how sound

a coach listening at Level II, you not only hear the coachee speak but also notice all that is coming to you in the form of information—the tone, the pace, the feelings expressed.