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SIGN UP HERECoach Training EDU™ identified 7 Essential Coach Qualities that professional coaches should embody and infuse into their work. These qualities form the foundation of CTEDU’s curriculum and align with standards set by respected coaching organizations such as the International Coach Federation (ICF).
A coach sets ethical coaching agreements with clarity and cultural awareness. The central aspects of this quality are establishing clear expectations with the client, maintaining confidentiality, designing an alliance, and addressing accountability.
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A coach actively listens empathetically, using imagination and intuition while staying curious and attuned with a client to pick up on even subtle shifts in a client’s emotion. An experienced life coach asks questions designed to provoke insight.
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A coach sees the client as the expert in their life, inviting the client to be proactive and craft both the coaching session agenda and following action steps. A coach offers expert knowledge with curiosity to empower the client and adapts coaching tools to fit the client’s unique situation.
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Coaches continue to stay curious, even when clients experience strong emotions or realize epiphanies. The quality shows in a coach’s skill to dig for a deeper agenda in the TIME model, asking clients to give a name to an empowering perspective or new insight. A coach uses Powerful Questions which are short and open-ended (usually start with what, why, or how), and the coach invites the client to do most of the work of uncovering insights in a coaching session.
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A coach creates a safe space and demonstrates connection and vulnerability while also, at times, being fierce, even if that means sometimes asking uncomfortable but priceless questions.
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A coach shows confidence in the client’s abilities by inviting the client to explore ideas and emotions in a coaching session. A coach trusts the coaching process and embraces silence while holding space for the client to arrive at useful action steps. Strong coaches are confident their clients can be accountable and self-aware.
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A coach inspires clients to take bold actions between coaching sessions and designs ways to help clients stay accountable and follow through on action steps.
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