by Lyn Allen | Oct 25, 2016 | Leadership, Tips for Coaches |
If you are an achiever who works to help others be achievers, I have a question for your consideration: Is it possible you are – inadvertently – limiting those whose brilliance you want to unleash…including…your own? Do you push and strive for ever-higher...
by Lyn Allen | Jun 16, 2015 | Coaching Success, The Coach's Journey, The Evolution of Coaching, Tips for Coaches |
Quick and elegant techniques for a powerful, productive close to your coaching sessions Just as in life and in relationships, it’s really easy to feel a sense of incompletion at the end of a coaching interaction. In coaching this is likely to happen when you feel...
by Lyn Allen | May 5, 2015 | Coaching Success, The Coach's Journey, Tips for Coaches |
If you’ve bought into the cultural myth that faster = better, then A) you’re SO not alone and B) it is costing you and your clients – dearly. It sounds misleading or paradoxical: slow down so you can reach desired outcomes more quickly. But here’s why I’m...
by Lyn Allen | Mar 24, 2015 | Coaching Success, Nuts and Bolts, The Coach's Journey, Tips for Coaches |
Multi-dimensional listening is the ability to hear simultaneously on multiple levels and to track multiple threads in what you are hearing. You listen consciously rather than unconsciously, and use listening as a form of mindfulness practice. The most surprising thing...
by Lyn Allen | Mar 1, 2015 | Tips for Coaches |
People hire you for results, right? But here’s the paradox: chasing results can set you and your coachee up for outcomes that don’t quite meet the mark or don’t sustain. So how do you as a coach integrate purposefulness in your coaching with non-attachment? And, for...
by Lyn Allen | Jan 21, 2015 | The Evolution of Coaching, Tips for Coaches |
Coaches love the sweet spot in coaching – that place where a conversation flows easily with clear focus and emergent insights, and all of that leads to decisive action. There’s a feeling of substantive productivity. As a result of this interaction, Something Changes...