Asia Pacific Alliance of Coaches

In this month’s session, we had a live coaching demo and live mentorship to hone our coaching skills.
We focused on CC#3 on the PCC marker: Establishes and Maintains the Agreements.
The session was brimming with valuable insights.
Here are some takeaways from the session:

#1. Let the coachee do the driving.
As a coach, we could leave it up to the coachee to decide where they want to go. Coach’s role is to ask what is making it so important for them to reach that destination. What is the importance of reaching that goal? What does it mean for you to reach that goal? What is that you want to have by reaching that goal?

#2. Confirm the measure of success.
It’s critical to confirm what measure works for the coachee. The measure will make the action more motivating and could also make the coachee more accountable to take the action.

#3. Don’t be afraid of coachee’s “I don’t know”
If the coachee doesn’t know, we could see it as an opportunity – what exactly does the coachee not know? What assumptions are they making? We can go step by step, turning every stone to find what is going on in the coachee’s mind. Patience is key. Take your time.

A big thank you to Christine Suvanto MCC (ICF) for her generosity to give us her wonderful mentorship, Puay Eng Peh, PCC Coach Rye Cruz, Nelson Dy, B.S. Chem.Eng., MBM for volunteering to be the coach/coachee, and to all whom participated in our session. Growing together fills my heart with overwhelming sense of joy and connection.