All entries in Pat's Coaching Tips

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Dr. Pat discusses how active listening is a key component of the coaching practice.

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Dr. Pat continues the dialogue of the Core Competencies with a discussion about the coaching presence.

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Dr. Pat talks more on the details of Core Competencies for coaches.

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Becoming an effective coach comes from the interdependent combination of confidence and competence. Confidence comes with the practice of doing real coaching, while learning from every exchange. Competence comes from training, practicing and continual improvement using the “toolbox” of a

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One of the distinctions between the ethics of counseling and those of coaching addresses this very question. Licensed clinicians are taught and even legally required to not have dual relationships with their clients; this means that you cannot be a "friend" with a therapy client. In small

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Coaching is powerful; it helps clients say what they have not said, think what they have not thought, and dream what they have not dreamed…and share it with their confidant, their coach.

This allows clients to realize that if there are things they want to be different in their lives,

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