Competency #8: Facilitates Client Growth

<p>DEFINITION: Partners with the client to transform learning and insight into action. Promotes client autonomy in the coaching process.</p><ol> <li>Works with the client to integrate new awareness, insight or learning into their worldview and behaviors</li> <li>Partners with the client to design goals, actions and accountability measures that integrate and expand new learning</li> <li>Acknowledges and supports client autonomy in the design of goals, actions and methods of accountability</li> <li>Supports the client in identifying potential results or learning from identified action steps </li> <li>Invites the client to consider how to move forward, including resources, support and potential barriers</li> <li>Partners with the client to summarize learning and insight within or between sessions</li> <li>Celebrates the client's progress and successes</li> <li>Partners with the client to close the session </li> </ol><p>WATCH: <a href="https://www.invitechange.com/meet-janet-harvey-ceo-mcc">Janet M.Harvey</a>, MCC &amp; Mentor Coach discusses <a href="https://youtu.be/V7tTmRRYGAQ">ICF Competency 8. Facilitates Client Growth</a> </p><p>READ: <a href="https://coachingfederation.org/app/uploads/2021/02/Updated-ICF-Core-Competencies.pdf">8 ICF Core Competencies</a> (Updated) + <a href="https://coachingfederation.org/app/uploads/2021/02/Updated-ICF-Core-Competencies.pdf">PDF</a></p><ul> <li>Need to make this an everyday behavior – beyond coaching</li> <li>Clients can be a partners &amp; should be partners in this practice</li> <li>Insight can be the compass for the agreed upon outcome</li> <li>“Be useful, not helpful”</li> <li>Be a catilizer and not a solutionist</li> <li>Move outside the single situation</li> </ul><p><strong>Questions for Coaches:</strong></p><ul> <li>What ways do you check your own coaching assumptions?</li> <li>What outcomes have your clients had from coaching?</li> <li>What are the metrics that matter? How do you get clients to define their own?</li> <li>How do you define success with coachin