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Diana Bender
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Mentor coaching is about refining and strengthening your practice to bring your best coaching to every session. From learning new techniques for better agenda setting to designing ways to strengthen your coaching presence, mentor coaching is a great investment in yourself and your practice.
Mentor coaching is of course required by ICF to get or renew your ACC or PCC, but how can you optimize these hours to truly make a difference in your work?
I encourage you to start by analyzing your own coaching. Record a few sessions (with permission of course), and sit with the ICF Core Competencies while you listen, identifying which competencies you want to prioritize in mentoring.
Then, our work will begin, with those competencies as our signposts. I'm a technical mentor coach, which means that I think about and compare your practice to what ICF has developed for our profession. Together we'll listen to your recorded coaching session through the perspective of the core competencies of your choice, looking for what's working well and what you can do to improve.
I'm a very good listener, I'm good at thinking on my feet and my clients find that my positive energy inspires confidence- because I don't take a client unless I KNOW you can be (or already are) a great coach!
Interested in getting better as a coach? The first step is a 15 minute complementary conversation to assess our fit and explore your goals for mentor coaching.
Let's talk!
Mentor coaching is of course required by ICF to get or renew your ACC or PCC, but how can you optimize these hours to truly make a difference in your work?
I encourage you to start by analyzing your own coaching. Record a few sessions (with permission of course), and sit with the ICF Core Competencies while you listen, identifying which competencies you want to prioritize in mentoring.
Then, our work will begin, with those competencies as our signposts. I'm a technical mentor coach, which means that I think about and compare your practice to what ICF has developed for our profession. Together we'll listen to your recorded coaching session through the perspective of the core competencies of your choice, looking for what's working well and what you can do to improve.
I'm a very good listener, I'm good at thinking on my feet and my clients find that my positive energy inspires confidence- because I don't take a client unless I KNOW you can be (or already are) a great coach!
Interested in getting better as a coach? The first step is a 15 minute complementary conversation to assess our fit and explore your goals for mentor coaching.
Let's talk!
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My journey as a coach
After studying leadership at Harvard, I eventually became a non-profit Executive Director in Seattle. As my organization grew, I began to weary of the administrative responsibilities, but I loved coaching the leaders who worked for me. I had already learned a lot about adult development, but coaching really drew me as a great way to unleash someone's full potential. Thankfully I found SeattleCoach and thrived in the high touch, practice-heavy environment! I am an 'entrepreneurial' coach, which means I built my individual coaching practice from scratch, mostly through word of mouth. I now spend most of my time coaching in addition to some teaching and consulting.
From the very beginning, I've had a technical frame for my coaching practice, analyzing my own work and comparing it to the core competencies. I decided to become certified as a Mentor Coach, because it's a lovely blend of my inclination towards the competencies and my experience in adult development, coaching, analysis and problem-solving.
In addition to leadership, adult development and mentor coaching, I've also studied psychology, spirituality and relationship-based coaching. You can learn more about my path here.
From the very beginning, I've had a technical frame for my coaching practice, analyzing my own work and comparing it to the core competencies. I decided to become certified as a Mentor Coach, because it's a lovely blend of my inclination towards the competencies and my experience in adult development, coaching, analysis and problem-solving.
In addition to leadership, adult development and mentor coaching, I've also studied psychology, spirituality and relationship-based coaching. You can learn more about my path here.