Brian and Chad talk about coaching change, transition, and transformation.

• S - Situation
• B -Behavior
• I  - Impact
• N - Next Steps (Moving forward)

Brian and Chad discuss four types of coaching practices.

1. Life

2. Leadership

3. Ministry

4. Missional

Michael Cheuk, editor of Christian Coaching Magazine, christiancoachingmag.com, interviews Scott Eblin about his 3rd edition of The Next Level and the benefits of his Life GPS worksheet. 

You can gain full access to Christian Coaching Magazine by paying $15 per year. Your subscription helps with the cost of the production of the magazine and supporting Michael as he creates a great interview each month.

While standards and boundaries sound boring, this podcast is anything but that!

Standards are personal expectations you have for yourself. Everyone has standards about such things as appearance, mates, vehicles, organization, and so on. Standards can be too high or too low. This can cause conflict.

Boundaries are what we allow other people to do to us or around us. Boundaries have to be expressed and enforced. Not everyone is going to like your boundaries.

Chad and Brian break these down and discuss how they interact.

Travis Guse is a certified strength coach. Travis talks about how his journey came through strengths and how he uses strengths in his coaching. You can find out more about Travis at www.strengthssolutions.org.

Chad and Brian take a break from talking about coaching to talking about something they both have in common -- growing up rural and how that shaped their perspective.

Bob is the Director of Equipping and Spiritual Formation for Ecclesia.

bobhyatt.info or bob.hyatt@ecclesianet.org

“Content-rich” coaching is when you know how to do/have done what the client is doing.

• For younger leaders suffering from all clarity, no perspective. They aren't aware of what they shouldn't be doing and ought to be doing. 
• For older leaders with no clarity and all perspective. They see all the trees and it becomes incapacitating. They can't bring it to a focus. 
• For those with specific questions about ministry. Protect the boundaries of the coaching relationship and step into that place of "tell me what to do." 

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