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Core Competency #3:
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Coaching World
Carly Anderson, MCC
Carly is a trainer of coaches, a
Mentor Coach and an active
member of the community
of ICF Assessors. She lives
in California, is originally
from Australia and has an
international client base. Carly
has a vision of supporting
1,000 new MCCs to be
credentialed by 2018 and has
created a model of the ICF
Core Competencies called “The
Target Approach: Demystifying
the ICF Core Competencies.”
She is the co-director of Stellar
Leadership Performance
and co-leader of The Mentor
Coaching Group. You can visit
her blog (where this article was
adapted from) and website at
www.carlyanderson.com.
Establishing
Trust and
Intimacy with
the Client
Ability to create a safe,
supportive environment
that produces ongoing
mutual respect and trust.
Owning Your Faux Pas
As coaches, we may sometimes inadvertently say
things to our clients before realizing—sometimes
almost immediately—that it was not the best
thing to have said. In these instances, we model
being authentic and human when we own our
faux pas.
Coaching
Presence
The coach who is confident in herself and her
coaching skills has more capacity to show humility—
and to let her clients know she is just as human as
they are.
Ability to be fully
conscious and create
spontaneous relationship
with the client, employing
a style that is open,
flexible and confident.
We are not perfect: There is no such thing as
perfection when dealing with human beings, just a
perspective shift to see that everything that happens
may be perfect in the moment—even if we don’t like
what’s happening. (That includes our faux pas!)
Core Competency #4: