Without diving deep into the sport of professional basketball, Brian and Chad take a look at the lessons we can learn from Steve Kerr, the head coach of the Golden State Warriors, who have won three championships in five years. Kerr doesn't yell or pace the sidelines. He listens and observes much more than he speaks. He creates an open and trusting atmosphere among some of the highest paid and talented athletes in the world. There is much we can learn from Steve Kerr and apply to our coaching and leadership.

1. Coach partners with the client by supporting the client to choose what happens in the session.
2. Coach partners with the client by inviting the client to respond in any way to the coach’s contributions and accepts the client’s response.
3. Coach partners with the client by playing back the client’s expressed possibilities for the client to choose from.
4. Coach partners with the client by encouraging the client to formulate his or her own learning.

Triple Loop Learning was discovered by Chris Argyris, a Harvard Professor. We discovered it in Robert Hargrove's book, Masterful Coaching.

The three loops are often called by different names, but one set of names are:

1. Action

2. Strategy

3. Identity

Terry Gurno is the CEO of Terry Gurno and Influence. He is an Executive Coach, Trainer, Author, and Leadership Artist. Terry shares his journey from the pastorate to being CEO of a company to starting his own coaching business. There are lots of learnings along the way.

www.terrygurno.com

Lots of people like podcasts about questions, but there is one skill that is more important - listening. In this podcast, Brian and Chad discuss how to be better listeners.

• Able
• Believable
• Connected
• Dependable

Brian and Chad approach the issue of questions from a different angle. What are some questions you should NEVER ask?

• Looking to the past - What have you got so far? What have you tried so far?
• Prescriptive - Have you ever thought about...
• Judged - Why did you do that? How stupid are you? Really? 
• Collecting information already discovered - Have you thought about anything that you could do about that?
• Bad timing - What could you do about that? (at the beginning) What about this is really important? (at the end)

Often our coaching may feel closer to counseling as our clients show a need for an internal shift. Brian and Chad discuss the distinctions of counseling and coaching and how coaching often is the right approach.

Grace Dyson started coaching during her corporate years. She talks about how she positioned herself within the company as a coach, used coaching in her leadership style, and how she prepared herself to leave corporate and become a full-time coach.

Her podcast is The Parent as Career Coach.

www.lifedesigncareers.com

After eight years of coaching, Brian decided to look at his coaching hours log to see where his clients came from. With 90 unique clients, here are some observations.

• Not one client came from my website, reading my blog, or social media. Not one. Ever.
• My first twenty clients came from wherever I could find them.
• Eight of my first twenty clients were the key to all the rest of my clients.
• Working these networks produced multiple clients all at once.

Chad and Brian discuss all the results on today's podcast.

Based on a blogpost found here.

1. Artifacts
2. Espoused vallues
3. Underlying Assumptions

Brian and Chad discuss the GROW model for coaching and walk through each step. This is a deeper dive than you might have already taken.

1. Goals (Future)
2. Reality (Present)
3. Options (What's possible? Discerning)
4. Who, What, When, Will to do it (Designing Actions)

Chad shares his honest opinion about the popular Enneagram assessment. There are things he likes. There are things he doesn't. Your opinion may be different.

1. The specific descriptions of human personality is true
2. Overall framework of human personality is not true
3. There is no validity backing it up

1. Positivity 
2. Resourcefulness
3. strong sense of self (confidence)
4. Self-discipline
5. Flexibility - Resilient people are not rigid people

Brian and Chad list six benefits of mentor coaching.

1. An outside perspective
2. Motivation
3. Confidence
4. Connections
5. Resources
6. Feedback

• What is the song behind the words that is keeping us all dancing? In other words, what deeper tune of the church is getting played in this circumstance? What is going on in this situation that nobody is talking about but is affecting the whole system of the church? - p 115
• I also often coach my pastor clients to give a yearly “I Have a Dream” sermon in order to keep raising the urgency in the congregation. - p 142
• As a coach to pastors, I am almost always in the role of confidant. - p 159
• I tell my coaching clients, “You must bring yourself to your role, but you are not your role.” - p 211
• I often coach my clients, “Make your goal in every conversation to have someone roll their eyes upward (which indicates that they are thinking differently) and say, ‘That’s a great question.’” - p 213

1. Personal
2. Prevalence 
3. Permanence

5 aspects of a person:

1. Natural gifts

2. Acquired strengths

3. Personality

4. Spiritual Gifts

5. Character

Chad wanted me to make available a one page breakdown of the 7 Heavenly Virtues. You can download this helpful resource by going to www.coachapproachministries.org/virtues.

Instead of talking about coaching, Brian and Chad demonstrate coaching. Chad coaches Brian through an upcoming transition, then they debrief the coaching conversation.

Brian interviews former Special Agent Laura Sanders who worked almost 10 years for the IRS. Laura identifies five areas where the new tax laws will affect you on your next tax filing.

Brian and Chad discuss what it takes to grow your confidence and credibility as a coach. 

• A coach needs to understand the foundations of coaching
• A coach needs to know how to create relationships with clients
• A coach needs to hone their skills alongside other coaches

All these attributes can be gained through CAM's Certificate in Christian Leadership Coaching.