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1.4 CORE COACHING SKILLS
1.4.1 THE 20% THAT GET’S THE 80% OF RESULTS
Carter McNamara of Authenticity Consulting, LLC
Many Coaching Models Have Certain Approaches in Common
About 15 years ago, I had the privilege of studying a variety of
coaching models. When people asked me which model was best,
I always answered that it was the last model I had studied.
Each model seemed tremendously powerful — because each
had certain practices in common. I came to realize that those
common practices in coaching seemed to make the biggest
difference for those being coached. I came to call them “core”
coaching skills. Since then I’ve incorporated them into a process
I call “peer coaching groups.”
I had realized that the experience of having someone –
1. Ask me what is important to me now, what do I want to
accomplish.
2. Ask me questions about how I came to identify that priority.
3. Ask me what success would look like if I addressed my
priority.
4. Ask me about my nature, how I like to work on priorities in
my life.
5. Ask me what relevant and realistic actions I might take to
address my current priority.
6. Ask me what I am learning as I am working to address the
priority.
– was extremely powerful.

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