The Art of Coaching with Alisa Cohn

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this episode, Alisa Cohn and I talk through Art of Coaching and also one of my favorite ways of looking at Leadership: The Art of Showing up on Purpose. A Coaching mindset is a transformative way to show up for others and yourself, so I’m excited to share these insights from Alisa, since she was named the Top Startup Coach in the World, and she has been coaching startup founders to grow into world-class CEOs for nearly 20 years. If you’re stepping up as a leader, or are thinking about coaching, this interview will help you know what to expect in a coaching relationship and why you might want to bring a coach into your work.</span></p> <p><strong>Everyday Coaching</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A coaching mindset can be powerfully transformative, so even if you don’t have a startup, even if you’re not a coach... if your you’re not even an official leader, or even if you just want to be a good friend, you’ll find lessons in this conversation with Alisa that you can use in your work and life, everyday </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Coaching is a conversational process that works with someone to help them improve, from the inside out. Alisa shares some of her most powerful coaching questions and all about how the most impactful coaching conversation she’s ever had was only 8 minutes long.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Alisa and I got right into the heart of coaching, with her sharing some essential, fundamental conversational approaches to the coaching process like: </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">>>firm and gentle inquiry<br /></span><span style="font-weight: 400;">>>moving from the presenting problem to the context<br /></span><span style= "font-weight: 400;">>>Trusting your curiosity<br /></span><span style= "font-weight: 400;">>>Staying Loose!<br /></span><span style= "font-weight: 400;">>>Trust that they have an answer...</span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">that the work is in them. </span></em></p> <p><sp