5 Jan,2022 | Coaching, Coaching 4 Clergy
During a recent practice coaching session with students, we discussed the phenomenon that as soon as they are coaching somebody on a topic they have lived through or are living through, it’s like they lose all memory of how to coach. Yet if it’s a situation they can’t...
1 Dec,2021 | Coaching, Coaching 4 Clergy
Over the past several decades the questions that we have been asking about conflict have been evolving. Pre-1980’s we were asking: How do we resolve conflict? The past several decades we’ve been asking: How do we manage conflict? Today’s internal coaches are guided by...
17 Nov,2021 | Coaching, Coaching 4 Clergy
I recently worked with a team in a new setting, and I was pleasantly surprised at how effective – once again – coaching skills were in moving the team forward. We focused on the fundamental skill of listening – listening to really understand the...
16 Dec,2020 | Coaching, Coaching 4 Clergy
As an external coach serving individual or corporate clients, there are typically one or two parties in each coaching relationship. There is your client, which may be an individual, a team, or a group. Then there might be a payee or sponsor – the one who brought you...
2 Dec,2020 | Coaching, Coaching 4 Clergy
When you listen to a symphony, you’re not there to listen to just one of the instruments, you want to hear them all together. The same is true with a team. Whether it’s an intact team or they’re just coming together for a temporary project or topic, they’re a group....
