Co-Active Coaching

You champion coachees by standing up for them when they question their abilities or their capacity to take on the task of challenge. It is not empty cheerleading. As the coach, you champion what you know is true; coachees will know if you aren’t sincere.

The flow in process coaching has the following steps: (1) the coach senses the turbulence under the surface and names it, (2) the coach explores it, (3) the coachee experiences it, (4) a shift happens, (5) energy opens up, (6) the coachee has access to new resources, and (7) movement happens.

The accomplishment is a message about who the coachee can be. There is a shift from the satisfaction of “ahh” to the breakthrough awareness of “aha”—a new strength, a renewed capacity—like finding muscles they didn’t know they had or had forgotten they had.

The coachee’s definition of fulfillment is always intensely personal.

A conversation where the person you’re talking to is listening at Level 1 feels disengaged and inauthentic, and it ultimately undermines trust.

Distinctions for Consulting, Coaching, and Mentoring

belief—what will sustain coachees on their way? The energy of commitment is one answer.

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

In the end, this is the real leverage of coaching: not an answer to a single issue, but a more empowered and resourceful coachee living a more alive and rewarding life.