Coaching Through It

On this episode of @CoachingThruIt, coaches Laura and Julie talk about empowering their clients to design and develop individual systems of accountability. We talk about coaching questions to hold clients accountable and practices that enable clients to check-in with themselves for their own action steps beyond a coaching session.

Question for coaching accountability:

• By the end of our time today, what would you like to have us achieve?
• What would you want to discover in this session that would be useful for you?
• How could we quantify this or make this measurable?
• What can I help you with between now and the next time we talk?
• What are you going to do next?
• What changes are you making from what you’ve learned today?
• What would have allowed you to take action?
• What can help you move forward?
• What was holding you back?
• What prevented you from taking the next step?
• What did you learn from not doing?
• What are the small steps to get there?

Lessons Learned:

1. Accountability is unique to each client -- let them decide next steps
2. Give your clients the questions you asked where they said “I don’t know.”
3. Offer the recordings for clients to listen back
4. Your success as a coach does not depend on your client’s accountability or follow-through
5. Bottom line: Encourage your clients to show up to do the work with you, the coach. That is what it is all about!

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Jennifer Askey, Ph.D. works with academic leaders and leaders-to-be in a down-to-earth and engaging approach that utilizes emotional intelligence, positive psychology, and mindfulness to help her clients navigate the internal and external obstacles of their professional worlds. She focuses on career planning and transition, as well as team effectiveness. Jennifer utilizes assessments, such as DISC, EQi-2.0, Belbin Team Roles, and 360s to help her clients and their organizations gain new insights and develop forward-looking plans for change. She is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach with CTI, and a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) through ICF. Jennifer is pursuing certification with Positive Intelligence and the International Mindfulness Teachers Association. 

"“If we have a precious hour together...what are you doing that we can advance? Or what’s in your way that we can get around or over in this time? How can I help you move from point A to point B?” ~ Jennifer Askey

• Learn more about Jennifer Askey + in/jenniferaskeycoach + Newsletter
• Continuing Coach Education (CCE) to Renew Your Credential
• Mentor Coaching
• Group and Team Coaching (programs)
• Positive Intelligence (PQ) Program with Shirzad Chamine
  • Assessment: Find your PQ Score
• ACC Portfolio Path via ICF
• World Business & Executive Coach Summit (WBECS) - master classes & coach CCEs
• NeuroLeadership Institute
  • Your Brain at Work podcast
• The Great Resignation
• Coaching Questions:
  • What stories are you telling yourself about that?
  • How can we best use our time?
  • How can I help you with that next step?
• The Life Coach School
• Coaches Rising Podcast
• The Philosopher’s Diet by Richard Watson
• Books by Michael Bungay Stanier
  • The Coaching Habit 
  • Do More Great Work
• The Gifts of Imperfection By Brené Brown 
• How’s Work with Esther Perel

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As career and executive coaches, we’re always learning. For this episode of  @CoachingThruIt Laura and Julie share what’s in their coaching library -- books, podcasts, and conferences… oh my! Here are a few things we’re tuning into to support our clients and craft of coaching:

• Dare to Lead Ep. Brené with Amy Cuddy on Pandemic Flux Syndrome
• “Why This Stage of the Pandemic Makes Us So Anxious” from the Washington Post by Amy Cuddy and Jill Ellyn Riley
• Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily Nagoski & Amelia Nagoski
• Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel; Ep. Jonathan Fields on finding your purpose 
  • Sparked: Discover Your Unique Imprint for Work that Makes You Come Alive
  • Take the free assessment: Find Your Sparketype
• WorkLife podcast with Adam Grant
• Taken for Granted Ep. Merve Emre on Emotional Intelligence as Corporate Control
• Science Diction - 3 Part Series The Rise of the Myers-Briggs
  • Chapter 1: Katharine
  • Chapter 2: Isabel
  • Chapter 3: What Is It Good For?
• How’s Work with Esther Perell 
• The Long Game by Dorie Clarke
• People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry
• Your First 100 Days in a New Executive Job by Robert Hargrove
• Beautiful World Where Are You by Sally Rooney
• No One Succeeds Alone by Robert Reffkin
• Systemic Coaching: Delivering Value Beyond the Individual by Peter Hawkings & Eve Turner
• Women of Discriminating Taste: White Sororities and the Making of American Ladyhood by Margaret Freeman
• Machiavelli For Women: Defend Your Worth, Grow Your Ambition, and Win the Workplace by Stacey Vanek Smith
• The Leader You Want to Be by Amy Jen Su
• Coaching Real Leaders with Muriel Wilkins
• ICF Converge 2021 Conference - October 26-28, 2021

What’s in your own library to learn? How are you exploring and developing lately?

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We’re joined by Coach Laurie Maynell for this episode of @CoachingThruIt. Laurie has been an educational developer in higher education for 15 years, providing consultation on teaching, course design, and assessment to individual instructors and academic units.  She took her first coach training course to enhance her consultation practice at her day job and loved it so much that she decided to continue coach training and pursue coaching credentials through the International Coach Federation. Laurie is slowly growing her coaching business and working toward the Associate Certified Coach (ACC) credential from the International Coaching Federation (ICF). Connect and find Laurie at LinkedIn *+(in/lauriemaynell/), on Twitter (@m_lauriem) and by email.

"Coaching is just this gift you give yourself. To just allow yourself the time to process something that is important to you, with assistance.” ~Laurie Maynell

• “Paid Coaching” ICF Credentialing -- barter, swapping services, purchase of coffee, etc.
• Listening back to coach recordings to learn & also used to assess for ICF
• Coach Observations in Coaching Training Programs 
• Powerful Questions: Listen to S1E9: Asking Powerful Questions
• Coaching Tool: “Future Self” -- imagine yourself in the future… via Tara Mohr
• Coaching Questions: 
  • What would your future self like to look back and see? 
  • What would you like your future self to tell you?
• Backwards Design: Where do you want to end up
• The Slow Hustle Mastermind with Dr. Katie Linder
• The Coaching Habit Michael Bungay Stainer
• Charles Duhigg - The Power of Habit
• Systemic Coaching: Delivering Value Beyond the Individual by Peter Hawkings & Eve Turner
• Isabeau Iqbal -- listen to S2E6: Finding Your Coaching Voice with @IsabeauIqbal
• Katie Linder
• ICF Credential Updates for 2022
• ICF Core Competencies
• Laura is an ACC-ICF Certified coach now - W00t!

Questions for Coaches:

• How do you want to advertise your coaching practice?
• What is the barrier to getting started in your business?
• What does it mean to build a meaningful coaching practice for you?

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On this episode of  @CoachingThruIt Julie & Laura talk about peer and group coaching models. Both have taken their coaching skills to work in the learning & development space to help leaders, groups, and teams grow. Listen to how they are thinking about peer and group coaching at the office and maybe for a future group coaching program they might design:

• Caucus & Affinity Groups (tools)
• What is Psychological Safety at Work?
• Liberating Structures - Triad Consulting
• ICF Coaching - 2020 Executive Report
• Modeling Coaching: Using “What” and “How” Questions
• What is Group Coaching?
• Coach: How does it feel to hold space for multiple people?
• Client: How does it feel to share space related to the coach & clients around you?
• What protocols and/or expectations have you set up for your group coaching programs?
• Positive Intelligence (PQ) Pod 
• How do you norm-set and/or create a shared interest for group coaching?
• Systemic Coaching
• Community of Practice

What group coaching resources do y’all know of? Are there any recommendations for books or resources around group coaching?

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On this episode of @CoachingThruIt we are joined by queer leadership coach, Liz Cruz (she/they). Liz works with folks who want to grow their emotional intelligence skills and hone their authentic leadership style, fully integrating identities, values, and experiences. Liz’s coaching approach is informed by her deeply-held belief that each of us is inherently brilliant, and that we’re already holding the solutions we’re looking for. Her process begins with exploring the client’s emotional intelligence strengths, and how to best bring them to bear in the challenges at hand. Liz helps their clients to learn about themselves, to investigate their feelings and beliefs, and to build a practice of taking small but powerful actions to create radical change in their leadership. Connect to Liz on LinkedIn & learn more about their coaching & consulting at: https://www.lizcruzconsulting.com/ 

We talk about going from a side project to a full-time business, charging what you’re worth in coaching, piloting coaching programs & being in community with these groups, and signaling to the clients to include equity and access within a coaching practice.

• How to Grow Dahlias
• “Name Your Price” coaching
• Queer Leadership Group Coaching
• Slack Channel: conversations space for group coaching; to encourage participants to lead and post between coaching sessions
• Emotional Intelligence
• EQ-i 2.0 Emotional Intelligence assessment
• Community and/or membership models post-group coaching 
• Burnout
• Advice from Liz: 
  • Charge more money! And then double it.
  • Be more brave & bold.
• Liz’s Coaching Questions:
  • What are you feeling right now?
  • Where else are you feeling this?
  • Where else is this showing up in your life?
  • What is it that you’re not willing to say out loud right now?
• The Feelings Wheel

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In this episode of @CoachingThruIt, Laura & Julie talk about getting certified as a coach through the International Coaching Federation (ICF). We talk about the value for joining a professional coaching community and earning a credential that is grounded in ethics and principles that value the coaching practice.

• Associate Certified Coach (ACC)  
• Congrats to Higher Ed Coach Training -- it’s ACTP Accredited!
• ICF Converge 2021 - October 26-28
• Become an ICF Member
• Other Coach Programs Laura’s check out:
  • New Ventures West
  • Co-Active Training Institute
  • iPEC Program 
• Find Coach Training
• Directory to Find a Coach and verify an ICF certified coach
• ICF’s Hiring Tips [When meeting/interviewing a potential coach]
• ICF Communities of Practice
• ICF Continuing Professional Development
• ICF Washington State

What we’re reading and learning these days around coaching:

• Mutual Mentoring
• Communities of Practice
• Cultivating Communities of Practice by Wenger, McDermott, & Snyder
• How to Have a Good Day by Caroline Webb

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In this episode of @CoachingThruIt podcast Laura and Julie welcome guest Molly Mandelberg, to talk about marketing, building your business, finding your niche clientele, and more! Molly is the Founder of Wild Hearts Rise Up, Creator of “Magnetic Influencer Collective” and also hosts two podcasts: Tactical Magic” (p.s. Laura is on Ep. 127 Transition) and Reveal the Game of Life.

After spending years mastering content creation and online marketing, Molly finds her bliss in bridging the worlds of heart-centered healing and transformation, with the practical business strategies of leveraging a message into a global movement. She is a certified NLP Coach, an Access Consciousness Bars Facilitator, a Transformational Leadership Coach and a full time nomad. Connect and find Molly at:

• Website: https://www.wildheartsriseup.com/
• Twitter: @WildOneRising
• Molly’s YouTube Channel 

We learned so much about how we are marketing our coaching business and how to align our values with our messages and content copy -- here are a few things we talked about:

• Hypnosis
• Wild Hearts Rise Up Oracle Deck & Guidebook
• What level of Thought Leader are you? (quiz)
• Question: What’s your biggest challenge when it comes to your life/business/services?
• Free Stuff: Attracting Clients, Money Machine Blueprint, Website Building, etc.
  • Tell your clients WHY this free stuff is valuable and important
• Molly’s Offerings: Find out how you can work with her to support & grow your business
  • How clear are you with your niche? How do you work with your clients now? What do you want next?
• Toastmasters
• Tips for Ending a Client:
  • It’s your client’s responsibility to find what they need
  • Build a referral network to support your coaching clients!
  • Share what you could offer with more coaching sessions or programs
• Advice: Don’t give up, trust yourself, and ruthlessly invest in yourself when something feels right for your own coaching practice.

If you’re thinking about your own coach business marketing & communication:

• What is your coaching niche? 
• How do you create a business you actually want to own?
• How are you targeting your coach marketing? 
• What is the language of your people?
• How are you resonating with your clients?
• How do you know when to end the client relationship or have them move on?

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In this episode of @CoachingThruIt, Julie & Laura talk about executive coaching: what it is, what they are learning about it, and how it is going with their executive clients. We hope that this episode unpacks more around coaching leaders and how we’re taking what we know into supporting the specific needs and making space for these clients who are interested in developing how they work and support others.  

• What is Executive Coaching?
• Understanding Leadership & Executive Presence
• Own the Room Amy Jen Su & Muriel Maignan Wilkins 
• Coaching Real Leaders HBR Podcast hosted by Muriel Wilkins
• How Women Rise by Sally Helgesen & Marshall Goldsmith
• 360 Degree Feedback 
• Self-Assessments + Career & Professional Development Assessment
• The Art of Executive Coaching by Nadine Greiner
• Professional Certified Coach(PCC) ICF Rubric

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In this episode of @CoachingThruIt, Julie & Laura were thrilled to have a coaching conversation with Isabeau Iqbal. She is a career and life coach who helps ambitious perfectionists move forward in their higher education career, without throwing their quality of life out the window. Isabeau takes a positive approach to perfectionism in her coaching -- this, she believes, is a much more kind (and realistic) strategy than wishing one’s perfectionism away! We talk about the hurdles for starting a coaching practice and how to remove business barriers like scheduling, sales, and matching these to our values. This was a helpful conversation to understand that coaching as a business is an evolution and process -- so it’s okay if we’re still figuring it out and finding our voice in our practice.  Connect and learn more about Isabeau’s coaching:

• Isabeauiqbal.com
• https://ca.linkedin.com/in/isabeauiqbal
• @isabeauiqbal 

Here are a few things we talked about during the episode:

• Coach to Coach Podcast: S2E1: Introducing Isabeau Iqbal
• Organizational Coaching Certificate at UBC
• Clifton Strengths Finder
• Associate Certified Coach (ACC)  International Coaching Federation (ICF)
• What is Coaching Supervision?
• Coaching Supervision Resources from ICF
• Mentor Coaching
• Coach Coffee Talk - 1st Saturday each month
• ICF Vancouver Chapter
• Coach Training EDU Program
• What is Business Coaching?
• A Beginner’s Guide to SEO
• Acquity Online Appointment Scheduling
• Coaching Questions: 
  • What’s important about that to you? 
  • How is that serving you? 
  • Where’s the question at?
• Who does Isabeau coach?

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Follow the pod on Twitter: @CoachingThruIt & Instagram: @CoachingThruIt

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