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Coaching for Workplace Resilience

2022/06/03

A Research Paper By Anja Haman
Performance Coach, CANADA

Resilience may be developed, and coaching can help people become more aware of their responses to adversity and develop the skills they need to cope with adversity at work. Individuals who develop a diverse range of tools over time are more robust in a variety of situations. Coaching can also help the person by ensuring that their environment is controlled in a way that allows them to be resilient: ensuring that they have a social support system, time to recharge, and a strong inner compass with clear purpose and values. Because context matters, the potential of teams and organizations to enhance individual resilience should be further explored.

Approval vs. Acceptance

2022/06/02

A Coaching Power Tool By Anja Haman
Performance Coach, CANADA

Many great leaders showed self-acceptance by challenging established standards and believing in their right to do so. As expectations and powers move and the world changes, seeking external acceptance can lead to worry, anxiety, and guilt. Because new expectations and standards can be questioned and analyzed without constituting a personal threat, acceptance of oneself provides the door to curiosity, empathy, and progress. People can live truly and be their best selves when they move from seeking Approval vs. Acceptance. Coaches can help their clients transition from seeking external approval to self-acceptance, helping them become more aware of their existing beliefs and gradually change their habits of thinking, feeling, and explaining. Complementing this work with a strong social support network and a solid inner compass can help build a solid foundation.

The Journey to Resilience

2022/05/31

A Coaching Model By Anja Haman
Performance Coach, CANADA

Improving our lives is a lifelong process that involves expanding our inner world while reacting to the external environment. The ability to weather storms, adjust when we need to, and pace through life’s ebbs and flows is a part of the journey to resilience. Each obstacle or opportunity is a step along that route, and we get to choose how we respond, grow, and participate. Coaching begins at this point when we wish to accomplish something difficult. We must determine where we are going and stick to that path, using the right tools for the current issues before us, and taking the time to fuel them. We must cultivate mental resilience to stay on track despite diversions, changes, and uncertainty. Just like trekking, the more we travel, the more tools we learn to use, and the more confident we become in our abilities in every situation.

Wheel of Life

2022/05/17

A Research Paper By Sing Lee Lim
Career Coach, SINGAPORE

As an HR professional, I’ve come across a few psychometric assessment tools that are routinely used in leadership and succession planning to uncover talents and assess strengths and areas of improvement. In this study article, I’ll describe my own experience with the Wheel of Life coaching tool from the standpoint of a client. I hope that my fellow coaches who are interested in learning more about the Wheel of Life and want to use it in their coaching will find this paper fascinating to read.

Control vs. Influence

2022/05/16

A Coaching Power Tool By Sing Lee Lim
Career Coach, SINGAPORE

Coaching is most effective when a coach assists his or her client in recognizing what he or she truly desires, often known as self-awareness. Self-awareness refers to internal attention to one’s inner self. This idea is a really effective method for learning and growing. We frequently wonder why we have tried so hard yet never succeeded. It’s possible that the explanation is that we didn’t realize what we really wanted and hence didn’t work in the appropriate way. Control vs. Influence is a new evaluation method in coaching to help discover the true aims to pursue personal victories.

ASPIRE

2022/05/13

A Coaching Model By Sing Lee Lim
Career Coach, SINGAPORE

As an HR professional, I’ve helped a lot of people when they’re facing issues or making career decisions. In conversations like this, I have come to the conclusion that discussing job choices is entirely a personal decision that individuals have to make. Consequently, I want to perfect my professional coaching abilities so that I can lead a career coaching monologue that helps others learn more about themselves and evolve into the person they’ve always wanted to be. Using the ASPIRE model, I always partner with my clients in career-related talks to clarify or explore their career interests or ambitions for their next steps. This approach is especially valuable for people who are at a crossroads in their careers, whether it’s because of a childhood desire or because of the constantly changing corporate climate.

Acceptance and Commitment Coaching (ACC)

2022/03/31

A Research Paper By Meaghan Sullivan
Performance Coach, UNITED STATES

Acceptance and commitment coaching (ACC) is derived from acceptance and commitment treatment (ACT), which is pronounced similarly to the word “act.” ACT is part of the third wave of behavioral therapy, following the first wave of traditional behavioral therapy and the second wave of cognitive-behavioral therapy. Hayes et al., 2006). Unlike traditional behavioral therapy, which focuses solely on changing behaviors and largely ignores the role that thoughts play in those behaviors, or cognitive behavioral therapy, which aims to change a person’s thoughts and behaviors, ACT focuses on how we relate to our thoughts without attempting to change them, and on taking meaningful actions despite the presence of those thoughts (Hayes et al., 2013).

Avoid vs. Approach

2022/03/29

A Coaching Power Tool By Meaghan Sullivan
Performance Coach, UNITED STATES

Whether it’s in sports, job interviews, uncomfortable talks, or public speaking, performance appears in many aspects of life. In instances where we must be “on,” we frequently face internal hurdles, regardless of the performance domain. These obstacles give us two options: we can avoid the obstacle and avoid encountering something difficult, unpleasant, or uncomfortable, or we can move toward the difficulty, overcome any discomfort that arises from it, and develop strategies for overcoming it. In a nutshell, we have two options: Avoid vs. Approach it.

“C” It Through “Good” or “Positive”

2022/03/28

A Coaching Model By Meaghan Sullivan
Performance Coach, UNITED STATES

My four-step coaching technique, “C” It Through, is based on the principles of acceptance and commitment coaching (ACC; Hill & Oliver, 2019). Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT; Hayes et al., 2006) claims that mindful awareness of our thoughts and feelings, without judgment, allows us to recognize and accept their presence. Through this acceptance, we can learn to live with unwelcome or unhelpful thoughts and feelings rather than changing, avoiding, or eliminating them. Instead, we might choose to connect with our values, or what matters most to us, and then commit to acting in accordance with those principles, regardless of our thoughts or emotions.

PROCESS – 7 Steps That Will Assist You in Decoding Your Performance

2022/02/21

A Coaching Model By Rony Elklayany
Executive Coach, LEBANON

PROCESS, I believe, is a one-of-a-kind code that allows each of us to discover our skills and release our full potential as we embark on our transformational road to success. It will help us improve performance and achieve our goals by identifying where we are now, where we want to be and what we need to do to act and achieve our goals. However, as all programmers are aware, code evolves at the same rate as the person who wrote it. This fact is why we must include our PROCESS in many check-ins or check-ups during our coaching sessions. It assists us in assessing and validating our progress in order to identify whether a change in direction or other measures are required to attain our targeted results.

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