For the past year or so, I have been coached for the pur­pose of obtain­ing an Exec­u­tive Coach­ing des­ig­na­tion that will help Build­ing Cham­pi­ons with some of our cor­po­rate and inter­na­tional work. My coach is very gifted, and has been effec­tive in help­ing me to improve my coach­ing skills.

As part of the process of get­ting this des­ig­na­tion, I have spent time being observed while coach­ing Mas­ter Cer­ti­fied Coaches from the Inter­na­tional Coach­ing Fed­er­a­tion. These are peo­ple whom I have never met or even talked to prior to the ses­sions. These have been pretty chal­leng­ing, and I must con­fess that I com­pletely botched last week’s session.

The con­ver­sa­tion went some­thing like this…

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