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Listening: Curiosity vs. Diagnosis

Listening: Curiosity vs. Diagnosis “During coach training, my homework was to get feedback on my listening skills…You have to listen while someone talks about something valuable in his or her life, and then do…
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Great Probing Questions Are Neutral.

Great Probing Questions Are Neutral. “Why did you ever take that job in the first place?” “Tell me about how you’ve allowed your job to rob you of your personal time.” “You mentioned that you loved being…
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Asking Powerful Questions:

Asking Powerful Questions: “The purpose in a man’s mind is like deep waters, but a man of understanding will draw it out.”                                                                  Proverbs 20:5 “The other day my son came home with…
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Missionary Debriefing – Part IV by Tim Olson

This series of four articles is based on a Mission Coaches Network teleconference with guest speaker Ruth Maxwell. Ruth is a career missionary with SIM and has served in Liberia, Kenya, Canada, and presently, in…
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Coaching Tips: Coaching a Client in their Second Language by Tina Stoltzfus-Horst

Because the missions world is changing, those of us who coach missionaries are increasingly coaching clients from countries other than our own.  Cross cultural coaching is complex and takes skill and experience; working with clients…
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Missionary Debriefing – Part II by Tim Olson

This series of four articles is based on a Mission Coaches Network teleconference with guest speaker Ruth Maxwell. Ruth is a career missionary with SIM and has served in Liberia, Kenya, Canada, and presently, in…
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Missionary Debriefing – Part I by Tim Olson

This series of four articles is based on a Mission Coaches Network teleconference with guest speaker Ruth Maxwell. Ruth is a career missionary with SIM and has served in Liberia, Kenya, Canada, and presently, in…
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2010 and Beyond: Don’t Attempt It Alone! by Pam Taylor

How would you respond today if a potential missionary client asks, “Do YOU have a coach?” As coaches, our deepest values and beliefs are reflected in our behavior.  We are trained to believe that everyone is…
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Am I Pushing my Child Away? Balancing Control and Freedom Part 2 by Gregory Bland

“You never trust me!” “You never let me do anything!”  “You don’t understand me!” “I wished I was never born!” “I hate you!” These are statements that send a chill up a parent’s spine as they contemplate even the possibility…
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Coaching Mission Marriages: What We’ve Learned by Jeff and Jill Williams

Bert and Cindy met at a U.S. seminary.  After a whirlwind courtship, often conducted by telephone and Skype between his Midwest U.S. hometown and her South American home country, the couple married and moved to…
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Am I Pushing my Child Away? Balancing Control and Freedom. Part 1 by Gregory Bland

‘Pastor Greg, my parents do not trust me with anything!  I feel as though they are suffocating me and simply want to ruin my life with all their rules and regulations.  They don’t let me…
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Ask Profound Questions…Get Profound Answers

[The articles I post on ChurchCentral are drawn from recent issues of Christian Coaching Magazine and represent a wide array of leaders and coaches as the authors. Thanks for reading! -Jerome] Ask Profound Questions…Get Profound Answers!…
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Coaching Tips: Needs of Longterm Missionaries Part 1

Last year many of us at CMI had the privilege of providing coaching to a group of longterm career missionaries who had never received coaching before.  A couple coaches, after working with their new clients…
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Help Potential Clients Feel Good about Getting Coaching by Michael Essenburg

You're a missionary serving in Latin America. You send monthly newsletters to your supporters, and you send monthly reports to your mission. Each time you send a newsletter, you receive encouraging emails and notes; each…
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Pastors and Coaching – the Pastoral Missing Link

...a recent Barna study suggests 61% of pastors have difficulty in developing meaningful relationships. In other words, pastors many times do not seek relationships for their own leadership development. Dr. Louis McBurney, a leading pastoral counselor suggests it is taught as a “best practice” in seminary; avoid intimate relationships...A personal coach can be the missing link for pastors to truly transform their ministry.
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