The School of Shadow Coaching

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“Learning Donna’s Shadow Coaching technique has made me aware of what differentiates a coach from a Master Coach. Recognizing the essence of the conversation with a client and understanding how to ask the question that will illuminate exactly what they need to focus on in the moment is what Shadow Coaching™ training provided me with. As a Team Development Coach, I am confident that these skills will be most valuable as I coach clients toward enhancing their team dynamics.” - Manon Dulude, MPS, PCC, Georgetown, ON; www.forgecoachingandconsulting.com/

When times are tough, clients have to make tough choices.  One of those choices is how they choose their coach, or whether or not they choose to work with a coach at all.  Tough economic times brings a world of impatient people.  Clients want to hone their skills, become amazing at what they do so they stand out from the crowd and make sure they stay up there. Do you have the coaching skills in your toolbox to help them get there fast and make those changes stick?

You can be one of thousands who give clients what they think they can get or one of a select few who can not only coach them, but coach them on the fly…go faster, deeper and more to the point so they get out of their ruts, or at the very least draw a roadmap to get there and start the journey in real time. As a Shadow Coach, you can partner with them to help them dig out and look down at the view from the top.

“People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.” - Warren G. Bennis

Are you going to stand out from the crowd?

As a coach yourself, if your clients aren't asking YOU for this methodology of coaching, perhaps it's something to share with them so they know they can get it.  In the past clients have been asking for what they think they can get, not necessarily what they want.

“This is a course you won’t want to miss! Donna Karlin brings wit, wisdom, skills and knowledge based on years of experience to her Shadow Coach™ Training. Your intellect will be challenged, you will have fun and you will acquire skills you can immediately use in your coaching.” - Adria A. Trowhill, MA, CPCC, MCC, Toronto, ON. Canadian coach of the Year 2008; www.positrakcoaching.com

What do clients want?

  • They want change now

  • They want it fast

  • They want it to be sustainable

  • They want to bridge gaps between where they are and where they want to be and know how to do that

  • They want coaching in real time where they can process things on the fly

  • They want to maximize what's working especially during a time of cutbacks

What do coaches want who take my program?

  • They want to be able to go deeper with their clients

  • They want to be able to keep up to the hectic pace of their clients' worlds

  • They want to learn a more powerful way to language their coaching

  • They want to see the truth of situations and not coach on clients' perceptions

  • They want to learn what they don't already know, now add training in bits and pieces to what they're already doing.

  • They want to be in a learning environment and grow along with their clients.

  • And they want to be able to hit the floor running with what they've learned.

  • They want to raise the bar on the value they give

Shadow Coaching™ is a real time learning approach in developing a refined self-awareness and capabilities in the workplace as a result of reflection on practice. It enables people, not only to benefit from the continuous presence of an observing coach over an extended period of time in a typical set of workdays, but also develops their own role as self-observer for the long term. It teaches clients to become reflective practitioners. 

This type of coaching is ideally suited to organizational leaders who must make decisions and act adaptively in intense work environments. Shadow coaching involves partnering with clients in their work environments and brings another experienced and fresh perspective that helps to identify problematic dynamics, work habits and assumptions that impede effectiveness. Within Shadow Coaching™ is the competency of Laser Coaching™ which involves being able to provoke the leader’s awareness of these problematic features in ways that they can be addressed immediately. It goes beyond support to problem solving.    
CCEU CreditsShadow Coaching™ attends to the individual, social, relational and environmental aspects of the client's ‘world’. The Shadow Coach coaches all sides of a person's personality, what clients are aware of and what they aren't paying attention to including their 'Shadow' personality.

It creates seismically altering change.  


"Like Super Conductivity itself, Donna Karlin is a phenomenon. She is fascinating and informative. Park your assumptions and find out for yourself!" - Connie Broomfield, Washington D.C., Broomfieldintl@olg.com  

Participants will learn...

  • To customize and deliver proficiency-based in-real-time observational / situational coaching to clients
  • How to do Laser Coaching: illuminating a moment in time to give client clarity and insight
  • How to develop clients into reflective practitioners
  • How to coach clients in the moment and co-design the coaching intervention as needed
  • How to think on their feet
  • How to use the Laser Coaching and Shadow Coaching styles of communication even in the more traditional methodologies of coaching (including tele-coaching).
  • The difference between coaching clients based on the clients perceptions of their behaviours, situations, circumstances etc and the truth as it unfolds.
  • The nuts and bolts of contracting for Shadow Coaching, Marketing, Scheduling etc
Our program is intensive. Our training is designed to meet current needs being expressed by the community of graduate coaches and to bring forward our latest models, frameworks and Shadow Coaching™ material in support of integration and evolution of graduate learning.

This training will be challenging, will stretch you as a coach and help you grow in your field of practice.
 

"I have the greatest job in the world!  I get paid to hang out with extraordinary people who want to grow, learn and percolate their thoughts and dreams into action and on top of it all, the world is my classroom as I coach clients in real time.  How much better does it get than that?

The gift of Shadow Coaching goes both ways...working with the client in real time so they 'get it' while they're 'doing it' and for the coach who learns about the world, industry and workings of government and politics as life unfolds. The return on that investment is immeasurable!"

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