Coaching helps you amplify your awareness of self and others, find clarity in chaos, revitalizes your creativity, navigates life changes, make informed decisions, and develop strategies to achieve your goals.

Positive psychology is a subfield of psychology that focuses on the study of positive emotions, strengths, well-being, and factors that contribute to a fulfilling and meaningful life.

What motivates human behavior? Maslow's hierarchy of needs is one of the best-known theories of motivation. According to humanist psychologist Abraham Maslow, our actions are motivated in order to achieve certain needs.

Leaders must be experienced as a support by their team, not as a threat There is a paradox in coaching leadership, because the leader traditionally holds the pay check, the key to promotion, and also the axe. This is fine so long as you believe that the only way to motivate is through the judicious application of the carrot and the stick. However, for coaching to work at its best, the relationship between the coach and the coachee must be one of partnership in the endeavor, of trust, of safety, and of minimal pressure. The check, the key, and the axe have no place here, as they can serve only to inhibit such a relationship.

A deep dive into an intentionally empowering organization that actively fosters an environment where employees are given the tools, opportunities, and support to reach their full potential.

So far we have established the essential nature of awareness and responsibility for learning and for performance improvement. We have also looked at the context of coaching, at the parallels between coaching and leading, and at company culture and high performance. We have explored the role and the attitude of the coach, and we have considered powerful questioning and active listening as the primary focus of communication in coaching. We now have to determine what to ask questions about and in what sequence to ask them.

This toolkit gathers together all the questions that we at the Leadership Academy SA consistently find helpful in coaching, in bags labeled according to topic. We invite you to dip into each bag as you need. The golden rule is to be clear and brief. Sometimes the most powerful questions lead to a long silence, so don’t feel the need to jump in with another question if there is a long pause. Silence really is golden

ICF Credential-holders should be able to demonstrate a clear understanding of this body of knowledge. A broad team of ICF coaches serving as subject-matter experts contributed to the creation of the ICF Coach Knowledge Assessment, a tool that can be used to measure this understanding. We believe that requiring passage of this exam will help ensure that ICF Credential-holders understand the foundational knowledge that we believe is so important for the development of high-quality professional coaches.