#182 When is it okay to share your knowledge?
Being nondirective has been drummed into us through our coach training – for some even more than others (I’m looking at you, ICF-trained coaches!)
Yet even ICF has now relented and included sharing knowledge as part of one of the markers for the PCC-level credential.
This is new territory for many coaches, who can feel conflicted between what they were taught and what they find useful in practice. For others, this is not new at all – indeed, research from 2020 showed that proficient coaches move seamlessly between coaching and mentoring modalities in their practice, to suit their clients’ needs.
In this Choice Magazine podcast, I am interviewed about the intentional choices that coaches make. I have borrowed from my own supervision model to create a light-hearted framework that shows how we can intentionally choose different moments in coaching to flex our approach to suit our clients’ needs. There are links:
to read the magazine article (which you can also download from my website); and
to sign up to be notified when my forthcoming book – The Coaching Supervision Casebook - will be available for pre-order (if you sign up, I’ll let you have a discount code);
But, most importantly, in the interview, I encourage coaches to experiment with sharing their knowledge. I would also recommend taking your experimentation to supervision to explore when it is appropriate to do so.
The interview is on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpVTsQofLQY
