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Sheri & Jamee
Expert Coach Trainers and Mentors for ICF Coaches
Talk About Coaching
Listen in as two experienced coach trainer/mentors discuss the ICF Core Competencies along with many other coaching topics.
Sheri and Jamee are not only business partners but they are friends, and together their discussions turn abstract concepts into user-friendly approaches that can be understood, practiced, and implemented.
Ultimately, the goal with these short podcasts is to share an idea or to inspire a new approach that you, the coach, can try out on your own to see if it works for you. Each coach is unique, and Sheri and Jamee want to support you in finding your own coaching style while exemplifying coaching competencies.
No cookie-cutter coaches—just great coaching!
Latest Podcast Episode
EPS. 46—Facilitates Client Growth
It’s easy to forget how important the last few minutes of a coaching session can be to solidify the clients growth and awareness from the conversation. A robust discussion of potential supports, actions and resources can greatly enhance the results that a client sees from the work in the session.
Competency 8.4 & 8.5
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EPS. 34—Maintains Presence
What does it mean to be observant and responsive to our clients and how do we this?
Competency 5.1
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EPS. 33—Establishes and Maintains Agreements
What is the importance of creating verbal and written agreements with clients and stakeholders? How can we utilize these competencies to set ourselves and our clients up for success in the coaching relationship including sharing our philosophy and agreeing to a commitment to move forward?
Competency 3.1, 3.2 & 3.3
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EPS. 32—Evokes Awareness
What are the factors that might influence a client’s thinking or behavior? How can we, as coaches, help our clients gain awareness of those factors in order to develop ideas and make choices about how they want to move forward in their lives?
Competency 7.8 & 7.9
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EPS. 31—Embodies a Coaching Mindset
When we say that mental, emotional and physical well-being is important for coaches, what do we mean and how does it impact our coaching?
Competency 2.6 & 2.7
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EPS. 30—Establishes and Maintains Agreements
What’s the difference between identifying an outcome for a session and reconfirming measures of success and why is it important to do both?
Competency 3.8 & 3.10
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EPS. 29—Demonstrates Ethical Practice
When working as a coach in an organization, how can a coach be ethically responsible to not only the client but also to the stakeholders and sponsors?
Competency 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
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EPS. 28—Facilitates Client Growth
What does it mean to design a goal or action and how does a coach partner with their client to do this? How can we support our client’s to expand new learning? Competency 8.2
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EPS. 27—Listens Actively
How do we understand the context, identity, values and beliefs of our clients and how does that understanding inform our coaching? Do we coach differently based on what we are learning about our client? Competency 6.1
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EPS. 26—Maintains Presence
Emotions! How do we handle a client’s feelings in the moment? How do we handle our own? How do we maintain the coaching session container to be truly in service of the client? There are many nuances to these competencies and skills. How can we excel at this?
Competency 5.3, 5.4 & 5.5
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EPS. 25—Embodies a Coaching Mindset
What does it mean to have a reflective practice? Is this something we do just outside of our coaching or is there a place for reflection within a session? And what role does this play in our ongoing learning and development? What can we do as coaches to identify the sources of learning that most benefit our unique coaching practice?
Competency 2.2 & 2.3
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EPS. 24—Cultivates Trust and Safety
This competency has a number of distinctions for the coach to consider including a client’s feelings, perceptions and beliefs. How do we manage our own feelings, perceptions, beliefs when we are coaching so that we can be present to our client and truly create cultivate trust and safety? Competency 4.5
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EPS. 23—Facilitates Client Growth
The way we end a coaching session is just as important as the way we begin one. Listen to Sheri and Jamee discuss the 3-bucket process for co-creating an effective close of a session and what it means to acknowledge the client’s progress and success.
Competency 8.8 & 8.9
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