ICF Core Competency #8· Creating Awareness
Ability to integrate and accurately evaluate multiple sources of
information, and to make interpretations that help the client to gain
awareness and thereby achieve agreed-upon results.
- Goes beyond what is said in assessing client's concerns, not
getting hooked by the client's description,
- Invokes inquiry for greater understanding, awareness and
clarity,
- Identifies for the client his/her underlying concerns,
typical and fixed ways of perceiving himself/herself and the
world, differences between the facts and the interpretation,
disparities between thoughts, feelings and action,
- Helps clients to discover for themselves the new thoughts,
beliefs, perceptions, emotions, moods, etc. that strengthen
their ability to take action and achieve what is important to
them,
- Communicates broader perspectives to clients and inspires
commitment to shift their viewpoints and find new possibilities
for action,
- Helps clients to see the different, interrelated factors
that affect them and their behaviors (e.g., thoughts, emotions,
body, background),
- Expresses insights to clients in ways that are useful and
meaningful for the client,
- Identifies major strengths vs. major areas for learning
and growth, and what is most important to address during
coaching,
- Asks the client to distinguish between trivial and
significant issues, situational vs. recurring behaviors, when
detecting a separation between what is being stated and what is
being done.
NOTE: Each competency listed has a definition and
related behaviors. Behaviors are classified as either those that should
always be present and visible in any coaching interaction (in regular font),
or those that are called for in certain coaching situations and, therefore,
not always visible in any one coaching interaction (in italics).
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