12 Ways to Know
You're Working With
the Right Coach
How can you tell if you’re working with the right coach?
Find your coach at the Blue Mesa Group. Our coaches are ICF certified or abide by the ICF Code of Ethics; we are practiced in all of the ICF core competencies and have flawless referrals.
1. Transformation
The coach challenges you to look at every aspect of your situation—from systems, culture and mental models to the how of what you do and the results or outcomes you desire.
2. Rapport
You have chemistry with your coach, plain and simple.
3. Security
You feel safe with your coach. You can trust her to keep your conversations confidential.
4. Professionalism
Your coach asks challenging, even provocative questions; he doesn’t try to be your friend.
5. Openness
Your coach doesn’t tell you what to think or do; instead, he empowers you to uncover your own authentic insights.
6. Boldness
You can and do take risks with your coach. You explore your feelings and experiences in ways that surprise you.
7. Compassion
You can see and hear that your coach listens to you deeply.
8. Focus
The coach supports a conversation that is entirely focused on you.
9. Accountability
Your coach encourages you to take responsibility for your actions.
10. Curiosity
While your coach may make astute observations and directly call out your blind spots, she asks powerful questions that come from a place of curiosity and wonder, not judgment.
11. Goals
You leave each coaching session with your own, self-defined call to action.
12. Results
You are closing your gaps. You can sense and measure the steps you’re taking forward. People around you notice a shift.