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Track Two: Working with Ourselves

Here’s a chance to assess your coaching skills and qualities and design a program to improve them. Also, you’ll find a series of questions that can direct you in capturing your learning and continuously improving as a coach.

In the first chapter we spoke about the importance of continuing to develop ourselves while simultaneously coaching our clients. By doing this, we stay out of the temptation to become experts, dispensers of advice and opinion who have no experience about what it really takes to change. We also stay grounded in the fact that when our coaching efforts fail, it can be because of our own lack of competence, as well as limitations with the client. Also, clients will continue to present new ...

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