What happens in executive coaching sessions to ensure successful goal setting outcomes? Guest Blogger:  Carol-Anne Minski, PhD, MBA - https://www.linkedin.com/in/cminski Executive coaches help leaders move more from feelings of anxiety to a creative strategic sense of goal-setting.  Coaching encourages the executive to develop new approaches and goals and re-evaluate their impact. Leaders with higher self-efficacy will set higher goals and find better strategies to attain their goals. Self-efficacy is linked to performance through its effect on goals. Outside of academia, self-efficacy is used interchangeably with self-confidence. My passion has always been to ensure that my coaching sessions lead to successful goal [...]

By Terry H. Hildebrandt, PhD, MCC, MCEC, Fielding Graduate University February 3, 2019 Skillful coaching can be broken down into the four key pillars of Evidence Based Coaching (EBC). These include:  the coach’s use of self, knowledge of the client, theories and models, and skills of the coach. I will briefly address each of these. Coach’s Use of Self: I believe that all skillful coaching starts with the coach’s self-awareness. I have heard it said many times, “who you are is how you coach.”  What is meant by this is a deep understanding of one’s own personal identity, strengths, values, character, ethics, weaknesses, [...]