Coach Training School
A Coaching Power Tool By Austin Tay
Executive Coach, SINGAPORE
Rigidity vs. Flexibility, – You have choices, humans are smart, and we sometimes make choices that are best for us at a given time. However, not all choices we make will provide the same results. What matters is that when we are making those choices, we need to ask ourselves one basic question – When we are in an unpleasant situation, what choices can carry us through the situation?
A Coaching Power Tool By Heather Nickel
Executive Coach, CANADA
Before I started the International Coach Academy program, I never thought of myself as a perfectionist. However, as I began being coached, the sessions always circled back to perfectionism. I was burning out, unable to be satisfied with my accomplishments or enjoy the journey. I felt stressed out and as if I was failing continually. The focus on perfection in every area of my life was forcing me to miss out on the beauty of the present and eventually my mental and physical health deteriorated. As I began to research and use techniques to overcome my perfectionistic tendencies, I also began coaching others with the same issue. I chose this power tool Perfectionism vs. Self-Compassion because it has helped me personally and can help others who deal with the same perfectionistic tendencies.
A Coaching Power Tool By Madalyn Morris
Purposeful Aging Coach, UNITED STATES
The purpose of this power tool, Comfort vs. Change, is to help people find a unique balance between comfort and change that suits their lives. This power tool is untraditional in the sense that, while comfort and change can be viewed as opposites, they lie on a spectrum. Neither change nor comfort is inherently bad, so everyone can benefit from this power tool by finding the balance that really works for them.
A Coaching Power Tool By Yoky Yu
Life Coach, SPAIN
With this power tool Youwei vs. Wuwei, let us be coaches who shine with our clients in this inner alchemy of selflessness and self-fulfillment. Awareness is the foundation of a natural, smooth, easy coaching session that supports our clients in exploring their ways. Youwei vs. Wuwei form a series of efforts that can bring immediate meta-awareness to coaches and clients. There can be a risky sense of synchrony when the coach fully embraces, while fully letting go, the creative tension in a session.
A Coaching Power Tool By Leigh Griffin
Agile Coach, IRELAND
Achieving any goal innately taps into either a person’s Passions vs. Talents. Talent, or skill, is measured and can be tested. They are something that can be nurtured and invested in with time and patience. Passions are less malleable than Talents and while Passions change over time, it requires environmental support as well as time to allow Passions to form and grow. Passions are a Key Bridge towards Talent gaps. If someone has the Passion for an area but lacks the key Talents, it can become a motivator and a focal point to help grow and embed the Talents.
A Coaching Power Tool By Florence Schelling
Development Coach, SWITZERLAND
As I was preparing to write this power tool, several ideas popped into my mind to write about, but this specific one “possible vs. impossible” topic resonated the most with me. It is a topic that I was and still is faced with a lot in my life. This power tool is about reframing perspective from a limiting belief of impossibility to one of possibility and empowerment.
A Coaching Power Tool By Amy Philippen
Transformational Coach, GERMANY
Through the art of Overachieving vs. Allowing, appreciating what we have in this current moment, and accepting that every ebb and flow in our lives has something to teach us, we can dramatically shift our perspective and remain open to what life has to offer instead of needing to control everything.
A Coaching Power Tool By Jennifer Topinka
Leadership Coach, UNITED STATES
Rigidity is a mindset where we are grasping and attached to a certain idea. Rigidity is the lack of seeing possibility, options, and gray space. Agility is about seeing a range of possibilities, holding multiple perspectives, and accepting “gray space.” An agile mindset is flexible, willing to change, and stretch. In coaching, clients can arrive at a coaching session “stuck” in a rigid mindset or perspective. How a coach can contribute to transforming rigidity vs. agility?
A Coaching Power Tool By Juliana Landmann
Transition Coach, SWITZERLAND
As a career transition coach for mothers who took a family break, I have noticed Guilt vs. Acceptance showing up as a problem that is making nearly every single client feel stuck. Coaching gives these women the opportunity to first become aware of what they feel guilty about and then to be able to shift their perspective to a place of acceptance instead. We can help our clients shift from a perspective of guilt into one of acceptance by helping them cultivate self-compassion, become aware and let go of approval-seeking behaviors and learn how to forgive themselves for all the imperfections they have.
A Coaching Power Tool By Camilla Born
Success Coach, HONG KONG
So how can we switch or change our perspective from a thinking pattern of self-doubt to that of self-confidence? We all have our inner critics or self-saboteurs. This idea leads to a lack of confidence, as over time we start to believe these negative thoughts or voices in our heads. We become convinced that this voice is true and start to act on this information. This self-doubt can lead to avoidance, procrastination, fear of failure, fear of being judged, fear of rejection, and feelings of overwhelm. This self-doubt also leads to the need to compare ourselves to others. This article Confidence vs. Self Doubt aims to outline some strategies for building confidence outside of a coaching session.
