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Handling the issue vs Coaching the person: a common trap
While handling the issue specifically refers to focus on a technical problem the client is trying to solve, coaching the person is about...

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Feb 10, 20211 min read
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Expanding the client's thinking
Without a doubt, this is the core challenge any coach has during a coaching session. The coach’s job is to help the client untangle the...

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Jan 24, 20211 min read
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Basic steps in the coaching process
I like to think of the coaching process as a six-step process: 1) explore the issue, 2) define a goal, 3) explore solutions, 4) define a...

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Jan 21, 20211 min read
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What is coaching?
Since the beginning of this coaching journey, I have incorporated different perspectives about the meaning of coaching that have paved my...

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Jan 12, 20211 min read
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Why is advise-giving not suggested in coaching?
First and foremost, advice-giving offers a technical solution to a problem rather than exploring the client's thinking, which is the main...

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Jan 4, 20211 min read
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There is a window you can open!
The Johari window is a tool that helps users have a broader comprehension of the context and nature of their relationship with themselves...

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Sep 22, 20201 min read
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Do you have blind spots?
A blind spot refers to something we are unaware of, something that is invisible to us, and it constitutes one of the main components of...

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Sep 21, 20201 min read
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What stops us from learning from feedback?
Sheila Heen and Douglas Stone, in their book “Thanks for the Feedback” (2014), explains that there are three main feedback triggers that...

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Aug 31, 20201 min read
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What counts as feedback?
I will aboard feedback from the receiver’s perspective. This is because regardless of whether or not the feedback is delivered...

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Aug 30, 20201 min read
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When conversations go wrong!
There are many reasons why a conversation might end up in a way that we didn’t want or expect. Agreeing with Edgar Schein, in his work...

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Jul 26, 20201 min read
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(Part 4) What is more important listening or asking questions?
So far, I focused on the fact that both listening and asking questions can have either a positive or detrimental effect not only in the...

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Jul 25, 20201 min read
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(Part 3) What is more important listening or asking questions?
In the previous post, I focused the attention on the powerful impact that both “listening” and “asking questions” have at an intellectual...

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Jul 25, 20201 min read
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(Part 2) What is more important listening or asking questions?
There is one powerful effect that both skills (listening and asking questions) have in common. Both skills produce acknowledgment at two...

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Jul 19, 20201 min read
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(Part 1) What is more important listening or asking questions?
Once, my friend Matías asked me, “what is more important listening or asking questions?” My response to him was the following: “Asking...

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Jul 18, 20202 min read
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Is there any risk with being vulnerable? (part 2)
What happens when vulnerability invades our professional life? One instance where, as a professional, a person could feel vulnerable...

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Jun 1, 20202 min read
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Is there any risk with being vulnerable? (part 1)
What does vulnerability mean? What does it mean to be vulnerable? How should we approach vulnerability? Is it something good or bad? Is...

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May 12, 20204 min read
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Why are questions powerful?
I should start defining what powerful means. From my point of view, something is poweful when it has a strong impact on something else....

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Apr 27, 20201 min read
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Trust: so powerful, so fragile
Trust has a complex equilibrium: it is easy to break and very difficult to rebuild. One misconception of trust surfaces when a...

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Apr 25, 20201 min read
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NEUTRAL or IMPARTIAL?
Is it possible for a coach to be neutral or impartial? Commonly, these two words are used interchangeably, and, from my perspective, that...

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Apr 18, 20201 min read
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Who am I as a coach?
The answer coming from my guts is: "someone who want to help others". That is an intrinsic feeling that was always inside me. No matter...

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Mar 26, 20201 min read
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