Coaching Skills & Techniques

Setting goals—there's a whole science behind it! But if there was one question to ask at every goal-setting discussion what would it be? The Must-Ask Question For ALL Goals Top of my list is this...

Does your client keep distorting the facts? Do they focus on the negative and ignore the positive? Are they determined to blame others or themselves or keep jumping to conclusions? Do they keep themselves...

What is a Cognitive Distortion? A Cognitive Distortion is where we focus on particular aspects of an experience (often the 'negative' ones) and ignore or discount other aspects—thereby "distorting" our...

In coaching, softeners are simply a few words you use just before asking a difficult question to literally 'soften the blow'. By using a softener, you're subconsciously preparing your clients for a...

When a client says "I'll try", what they're really saying is they're not fully committed to the action in question... Do or do not, there is no try. Yoda (wise teacher from Star Wars movies) Just using...

Every one of us has had (or has!) a client who likes to tell stories and go into great detail about what happened to whom, when, where, how. There are a number of possibilities. For example, your client...