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Communicating Effectively

Communicating effectively is an invaluable skill especially if you're a person who likes to make an impact on the world rather than a person who just ‘goes with the flow’. Many of the most powerful, influential and successful people throughout history were made so by the very fact...

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Motivating Individuals to Change

Focusing on individual differences allows the coach to take account of different personalities and situations, and understand why people do the things they do – what motivates them, drives them forward, or causes them to remain in a situation where they are not happy. There may be a ...

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Stages of readiness to change

Coaches often get to work with clients who are at varying levels of readiness and motivation to change. At some stage in the coaching relationship, the client will experience highs and lows in motivation. It’s the role of the coach to identify and understand this process and use the...

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Getting ready for change

People will only make changes in their life when their ‘pain’ is too great to endure it any more or the prospect of some future goal is too enticing to not go for it (the ‘gain’). Why don’t people want to change? Because they are too comfortable the way they...

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Individual differences

How we think, perceive, interpret and behave is different for each individual. What we believe and what we value often shape our response or reaction, to people and events. Hence those who were brought up in a similar value and belief system are more likely to have the same or similar responses...

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Professional and Ethical Coaching

Professional Coaches aspire to conduct themselves in a manner that reflects positively upon the coaching profession. Professional coaching practice recognises that there are a number of approaches to coaching practice, and is respectful of the different approaches. Regarding of the...

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The AIPC Coach Model

The AIPC COACH model developed by the Australian Institute of Professional Coaches is evidence-based, solution-focused and goal-oriented. Using this model, the coach works as an equal partner with the client to help them create their most desirable future...

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The Coach-Client Relationship

The coaching relationship is one of equalised power. The coach draws information from the client and the client draws inspiration from the coach. No one is right or wrong. The coaching experience is an opportunity to explore, as partners, the various options open to the client to...

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Coaching philosophy

As a coach, you will carry out your role based on a combination of your own experience, knowledge, values and beliefs. A coaching philosophy clarifies many aspects of how you will operate, how you will interact with your clients and how you will go about getting the best outcomes for your client....

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How Coaching Works

Coaching is focused on helping clients find solutions to problems or issues they are currently facing or helping them achieve their goals. Coaching assists clients find ways to overcome immediate problems that are holding them back from being the person they want to be and living the life...

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Positive Psychology Coaching presentation to EI Summit

Dr. Susanne Knowles speaking for People Builders, and the Emotional Intelligence Academy, at the Emotional Intelligence Online Summit for 2020 on applying the principles and practices of Positive Psychology in coaching.

 

05:14 - Psychology is the study of human behaviour and the mental...

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Purpose of coaching

The purpose of coaching is to help individuals in corporate, business and community settings gain self-awareness and insight so that they can make behavioural changes and grow personally and professionally. Coaches help clients identify the behaviours that are congruent...

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