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1.4.3 CORE COACHING COMPETENCIES
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Design the alliance: Build a strong foundation
By meeting ethical guidelines and professional standards
By establishing a professional coaching agreement
Through a correct assessment and intake

2. Communicate effect ively
- Practice active and empathic listening
- Be authentic (congruent), unconditionally acceptive and
supportive
- Be non judgmental; do not enter in discussion
- Establish rapport, respect and trust with coachee
- Use powerful questioning and purposeful inquiry
3. Facilitate learning
- Create awareness – challenge with compassion – celebrate
not knowing
- Do not offer your solutions – help coachee find his
- Co-create possibilities and actions, stimulate experiments
- Assist in planning and goal setting
- Affirm, acknowledge, celebrate
4. Manage progress and accountability: make specific requests:
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Start with “I have a request…”, or “May I invite you to…?”
3 possible answers:
1. Yes
2. No
3. Here’s what I’ll do instead
What are you going to do exactly?
By when?
Where, with whom, conditions, …?
How will you know? How will I know?