Coach Training Isn't Just For Sessions or Crucial Conversations!

Love the picture above! Everyone is served via coaching:)

Yes, some of our trainees have set up coaching practices. 

Others have "hung up a shingle" and launched a side hustle offering coaching sessions.

But for the most part, our trainees use coaching in their current roles and relationships.

Here are a few of the most common spaces in which coaching culture is used:

  • Pastors or Ministry Leaders use it pastorally to make disciples, not enable dependents.
  • Business Leaders implement it in their one-on-ones and in passing conversational check-ins.
  • Small Group Leaders engage in partnering with their group members as they walk out their personal journeys.
  • Parents can use it with little ones as well as with adult children. With littles, parents teach them to grow in confidence and understand the consequences of their decisions. With adult children, the choices are broader, but the outcomes are very much the same - instilling confidence and assistance in weighing the consequences. 
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4 Tips for Coaching Introverts and 4 for Extroverts too

The chatty and thinkers - both benefit from good coaching. 

In this series, we are going through the differentiators in Myers-Briggs and talking through each type of indicator. Whether you coach in actual sessions or use coaching culture in your regular conversations, these tips can help! Our focus in this blog is Introversion and Extroversion.

Let's begin with definitions, basically, introverts think inside their head. They prefer to process quietly on their own and have likely thought through what they are about to say when they speak. Extroverts, on the other hand, think best while speaking. 

Neither is a better way. Both have different assets. All benefit from coaching and here's how.

Introverts being coached should find a safe space to process. When introverts have to choose words to explain what they are thinking and feeling it helps them to identify more clearly what is happening. Being an introvert myself I have experienced this many times. I ask someone for space to proces...

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