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What we teach professional coaches is being adapted for conversations initiated by teachers, healthcare workers, and parents; more than anywhere else, what we teach is becoming an essential leadership competency for executives, managers, and supervisors.
Henry Kimsey-House, Karen Kimsey-House, Phillip Sandhal, Laura Whitworth • Co-Active Coaching

MANAGER: I have a request . . . with the usual “yes,” “no,” or “counteroffer.”
Henry Kimsey-House, Karen Kimsey-House, Phillip Sandhal, Laura Whitworth • Co-Active Coaching
values show up in choices and those choices are visible in behavior.
Henry Kimsey-House, Karen Kimsey-House, Phillip Sandhal, Laura Whitworth • Co-Active Coaching
Your willingness to be courageous will be a model, a mirror for your coachees.
Henry Kimsey-House, Karen Kimsey-House, Phillip Sandhal, Laura Whitworth • Co-Active Coaching
In our co-active model, curiosity includes both the questions we ask and the curious mind-set we bring to the conversation. The
Henry Kimsey-House, Karen Kimsey-House, Phillip Sandhal, Laura Whitworth • Co-Active Coaching
Coaches play a key role, by holding a vision of what is possible and by their commitment to transformative experience. Coachees still choose the topic, the action, and the results they want. But by taking a stand for the greatest possible impact from even the smallest action, coaches encourage—and ultimately evoke—transformation.
Henry Kimsey-House, Karen Kimsey-House, Phillip Sandhal, Laura Whitworth • Co-Active Coaching
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.