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Ethical Considerations in Applying the Enneagram as Part of Coaching

2023/03/07

A Research Paper By Benny Callaghan
Life Coach, AUSTRALIA

The Enneagram is an effective tool that has great potential for maximizing human potential. When properly applied in a coaching setting, it can aid the client in gaining a better understanding of themselves and helping them see past their blind spots. The Enneagram is a complex system with numerous subtle layers, all at once. It is simple to misuse and can restrict a client’s understanding of themselves if approached superficially and in a way that appeals to stereotypes. Any coaching practice must be grounded in ethics. ICF members formally ratify the ICF Code of Ethics, which is a cornerstone of the ICA program. ICF understands that ethics are dynamic and that working with clients may put coaches in unexpected situations.

Growth by Comfort vs. Growth by Discomfort

2023/03/06

A Coaching Power Tool By Giovanna Francesca Golia
Transformational Coach, ITALY

Il tema del Growth by Comfort vs. Growth by Discomfort power tool deriva da una serie di riflessioni legate alla mia esperienza professionale come Senior HR Assessor maturata in tanti anni di lavorocon aziende diverseper lo sviluppo delle competenze di leadership, dai giovani talenti ai senior manager. Ciò che ha sempre accomunato le mie osservazioni e le relative valutazioni delle soft-skills è che le persone possano fare “stretching” rispetto alle competenze gestionali attesesolo se e quando messe in un contesto out-of-the-comfort-zone, in modo da utilizzare le proprie risorse attuali o potenziali, senza condizionamenti imposti dal contesto lavorativo.

The LEAP Coaching Model

2023/03/06

A Coaching Model By Bastian Harth
Young Professionals Coach, GERMANY

We can decide to take control of our future and see the situation from a different perspective, enabling us to move forward confidently with courage and resilience. We learn about ourselves and develop the skills to deal with challenging emotions in the future by overcoming our fears. We don’t have to stay stuck with our fears; instead, they can help us seize bigger and better opportunities. As Susan Jeffers emphasized in her book “Feel The Fear and Do It Anyway,” this idea is where I’d like to show off my coaching model by motivating people to face their fears and pursue their goals. All it requires is thoughtful consideration, careful planning, inclusion, persistence, patience, and most importantly, a LEAP of faith—or courage, to put it another way.

Assuring Positive Career Choices: A Toolkit

2023/03/03

A Research Paper By Sharee S Wells
Career Coach, UNITED STATES

Each and every “job” involves tasks that some people may find tedious, challenging, or unnecessary. Even the most upbeat workers sometimes experience dissatisfaction with their career choices. A person with attention to detail might enjoy paperwork and quality controls. A big-picture person may detest that and prefer to develop concepts or visions. Even if an introvert has excellent technical skills, dealing with people’s problems can drain them. Although an extrovert may be fantastic at interacting with clients and coworkers, they sometimes struggle to maintain confidentiality or say anything meaningful. People who work with a career coach who approaches careers from their perceived successes can realize their best options for a career move. Here is my toolkit for giving clients time and space to examine their inner selves and opportunities.

Rigidity vs. Flexibility

2023/03/03

A Coaching Power Tool By Olga Kurek
Transformational Coach, NETHERLANDS

The way someone acts and interacts with others reflects their leadership style. Rigidity vs. flexibility, or both, could be the cause. Because he is skilled in managing both teams and structures, one could argue that a good leader has it all. I think it’s important to distinguish between structuring comfortably and being rigid and resistant to change, as well as between compromising, being flexible, and letting go of control. The rigid and flexible leadership styles are distinguished by the seven pairs of personal traits and observed behaviors listed below. The way you think affects how you lead. Contrary to popular belief, there are more authoritarian leaders. For them, working in business, law, or medicine is like going to honey (Lubit, 2003, p. 209). They succeeded despite the challenges faced by their supervisors and colleagues.

The Career Offsite Coaching Model

2023/03/02

A Coaching Model By Lucy Todd
Career Transition, UNITED STATES

The Career Offsite Model begins by using only coaching techniques to set up a secure setting in which clients can discuss themselves and their professional struggles. a “career offsite,” which is a personal offsite modified for professional use. These offsites, in my opinion, can either take place independently (outside of a session) or be facilitated by a coach, depending entirely on the client’s preferences and preferred working methods. The frequency, duration, number of goals, and time period for those goals can also, in my experience, be changed. I’ve broadened the definition to emphasize the goals of my coaching model and center it on self-discovery. Setting goals is a secondary outcome that can happen off the field. This idea is due to the fact that setting goals are an integral part of the coaching relationship.

Flexibility as a Coaching Framework for Better Well-Being

2023/03/01

A Research Paper By Olga Kurek
Transformational Coach, NETHERLANDS

The dialectic opposition of flexibility and rigidity is presented in this research paper. For professionals working in high-pressure, time-constrained environments, it looks at flexibility as a coaching concept for stress management, well-being, and performance improvement. Flexibility (mental, psychological, coping mechanism, or mindset) can be used when coaching for developing flexible stress mechanisms and strategies to improve well-being and performance. Coaching for flexibility focuses on goals such as academic and professional performance, resiliency, work, life satisfaction or balance, and general self-confidence in one’s abilities. It can be utilized when coping with helplessness, blame, guilt, and shame. Flexibility must be improved through a multifaceted strategy that considers the mind, body, and spirit. Changes to diet, sleep, and exercise routines, the addition of mindfulness meditation, and increased reading are a few examples.

Exclusion vs. Inclusion

2023/02/28

A Coaching Power Tool By Sharee S Wells
Career Coach, UNITED STATES

The power tool of inclusion vs. exclusion can open a closed mind, and this is sufficiently demonstrated. It promotes development and creativity. We can include, respect, and accept fresh, novel, inventive, challenging, and growth-promoting opportunities when we stop excluding things that are unusual, unorthodox, unexpected, or odd. Everyone can recollect examples of exclusion and inclusion from personal experience. Every system, niche, sector, and relationship can go through “stuck-ness.” The exclusion does not allow for any innovation or change. Only similar, well-known, or familiar things are permitted. Inclusion allows for novel concepts and various individuals, events, and objects. When new, strange, or unfamiliar things, concepts, individuals, and circumstances are welcomed, everything is available.

A Coaching Model: Bewilderment, Exploration, and Clarity

2023/02/27

A Coaching Model By Lori Penha
Life Coach, UNITED STATES

I have learned how crucial it is for me to keep things simple as I continue my coaching education. I use a very clear and straightforward coaching model called Bewilderment, Exploration, and Clarity. Someone needs to investigate the problems and gain clarity if they are in any way perplexed, clouded, or bewildered. I’ll coach my clients in a very straightforward manner like this. I started out this essay by stating that simplicity was essential to me. The images I chose are representations of how I want to guide the client through the coaching sessions: first, a safe and serene space to express the current Bewilderment, followed by a forgiving environment for Explorations, and finally, space to access potential solutions for Clarity.

How ICF Coaching Competencies Can Be Applied to the Role of a SCRUM Master

2023/02/27

A Research Paper By Sergey Nagin
Leadership Coach, SERBIA

I’ve gained corporate experience by studying SCRUM and serving as an SCRUM Master on a qualified team that creates digital content for e-learning training programs. Of course, although they are not identical and are not interchangeable, I have found that these two problem-solving strategies share many common characteristics during my training and practice as an ICA peer-coach. In this article, I’ll examine how a coaching method in accordance with ICF standards can be applied to the way SCRUM teams organize their work, and more specifically, to the position of SCRUM Master. What can motivate a SCRUM team and increase their effectiveness?

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