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Coaching Brings Growth

  Coaches get into coaching for all kinds of reasons. Some see it as a way to make a living.  Others like conversations.  Many of the coaches we train at Coach Approach Ministries genuinely love helping others, and they feel called by God to coaching as a way to support growth and positive change. Earlier

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How to Have Crucial Conversations

  I have often said that if coaching was simply about my coach calling me once a week and asking me three specific questions, it would be worth almost any price. Here are the three questions: Who do you need to have a tough conversation with? When are you going to have it? How did

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Defining a Coaching Partnership

  The ICF defines coaches as “partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential.” The ICF’s definition of coaching is anchored by the word “partnering,” and then it is never fully defined. What does it mean to partner? While I have had difficulty finding

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Change Starts with the Leader

  Timothy Gallwey was a tennis coach, who through a strange set of circumstances, found himself coaching a large corporation in desperate need of change. He met with the top leadership, and they all enthusiastically agreed he was the man to facilitate the change. They just had to figure out how to get started. An

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Watch Your Words

  Kilgrave is one of the best villains on TV.  As the main bad guy in the first season of Jessica Jones, he’s a formidable foe because he has the power to control people with his words.  If he says, “Jump out the window” another character will leap through a 20-story window to his death. 

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Coaching Perceivers and Judgers (1)

  This is the fourth and final post related to using the Jungian personality framework in your coaching.  The framework has been popularized by assessments such as the Myers-Briggs Type Instrument (MBTI).  Jung posited that human personality can be understood as the interplay of three specific preferences: Introvert/Extrovert describes where a person projects his or

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