Drawing from a coaching way of being, there are simple orientations and skills that anyone can practice to improve their interactions with those around them. This approach is congruent with increasing your own potential as a leader. This short talk aims to ignite your own thinking about how you can best develop those around you.

1. Welcome
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2. A Coaching
Way of Being
for Non-Coaches

3. Aims
- What is coaching about?
- What practices and orientations can
we use to improve our interactions
with others?

4. Defining Coaching
- ICF defines coaching as:
“partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires
them to maximize their personal and professional potential”.
- COMENSA defines coaching as:
"a professional, collaborative and outcomes-driven method of learning that seeks to
develop an individual and raise self-awareness so that he or she might achieve specific
goals and perform at a more effective level".
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5. Coaching Engagement: Awareness & Action
Awareness Action
(Responsibility)
Transformation

6. Differences & Similarities between Coaching
and Other Modalities
 Consulting
 Psychotherapy/Counselling
 Mentoring
 Training
Mentoring
Consulting
Counselling
Training Coaching
Grant & Cavanagh, 2002
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7. 1. Be Present & Listen
“Everything we do depends for its quality on the thinking we do first.
Our thinking depends on our quality of attention for each other.” -
Nancy Kline
http://curatti.com/listeners-listens/

8. 2. Acknowledge & Respond After
( www.lifehack.org, 2015)

9. 3. Ask More Questions – Be Curious!
Asking open questions causes them to
think for themselves.
(Whitmore, 2002)

10. Reminder: Powerful Questions
A paradigm shift occurs when a question is asked inside the current
paradigm that can only be answered from outside it.
Marilee Goldberg,
The Art of the Question
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11. 4. Offering Observations, Allowing Others to
Draw Own Conclusions
https://montyrainey.wordpress.com/2012/04/01/the-dangerous-habit-of-jumping-to-conclusions/

12. Remember…..
What we believe about the people we coach is a key driver of their
performance.
-
Fine (2013)
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13. Enhances Ownership & Performance
When we truly accept, choose or take responsibility for our thoughts
and our actions, our commitment to them rises and so does our
performance.
John Whitmore

14. Enhances Ownership & Performance
I cannot make the successful people I work with change. I don't try. Too
many people think that a coach -- especially an accomplished one -- will
solve their problems. That's like thinking that you'll get in shape by hiring
the world's best trainer and not by working out yourself.
Marshall Goldsmith
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15. Thank You!

16. Thank you
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