Narcissistic Client – Narcissistic Coach: recognize them, refer them… avoid them.

Narcissism is a topic that continually bubbles at the surface for Coaching, Psychotherapy and Leadership. If you do a quick search on the internet you’ll find millions and millions of articles and documentation on the subject. Keyword Results Time Narcissist 42,900,000 0.35 seconds Coaching 299,000,000 0.59 seconds Narcissist coaching 5,680,000 0.52 seconds Narcissist leadership 2,810,000 …

Matching with the Client: What makes us build genuine rapport with a Client automatically or …never!

What is the first thing we notice when we meet a new person? According to a recent Harvard  study the first thing our brains notice about a person is gender and race. Everything else follows: appearance, body posture and gesture, eye contact, tone of voice. Our brains classify information automatically and draw conclusions about the …

High Quality in the Coaching Process

Practicing Coaching for years and reaching a point of maturity I have come to some observations and conclusions about what we really do when we work with people in a coaching process. Quality is the key issue for such an “easy to entry” job and this is what I believe differentiates excellent professional coaches to …

Ethical Dilemmas in Coaching Today

Whether you’ve been coaching for a long time or just starting out, you will encounter ethical dilemmas where you have to make a difficult choice between some not so clear cut options. HKICC is honoured to have Maria Biquet talk to us about the findings in the 2020 EMCC study on Ethical Dilemma she led on April …

Stop asking about Life Purpose! Don’t upset your clients by asking about something that doesn’t really exist!

My dear fellow coaches, I am writing this letter to you with all my love and support to save you time and energy in the coaching relationship. WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THE “LIFE PURPOSE” QUESTION? A relatively common question in the coaching process is “what is your purpose in life?” Lots of articles, Coaching …

My story of Coaching.

Finding the way to myself. When I was about 25 years old I started asking myself why I am What I am. I didn’t know what I was and even more I didn’t know who I was. This still remains a big question for most people… We almost never find exactly who we are unless …