Join us for this on-demand webinar, Helping Clients Unhook From Praise and Criticism, where you’ll explore how to help clients unhook from seeking praise and avoiding criticism and gain insights into an alternative framework for giving and receiving feedback.
Who Is This For?
- Professional coaches, including team and group coaches, who want to support their clients in moving away from praise-seeking, criticism-avoiding behaviors
- Coach educators who want to become familiar with a coaching approach that helps clients move away from seeking praise and avoiding feedback
What You Will Learn:
- Recognize attachment to praise and avoidance of criticism when it shows up with your clients.
- Understand what the research tells us about why this issue affects women in particular.
- Explore a set of practical tools to help clients incorporate feedback strategically – but not get hooked by it.
- Get acquainted with a framework for giving and receiving feedback with more ease and less stress.
Course Details:
In this engaging on-demand webinar, we’ll learn how to help our clients unhook from the search for praise and avoiding criticism.
During this session, you will learn how to recognize attachment to praise and avoidance of criticism when it shows up with your clients, find out what the research tells us about why this issue affects women in particular, explore a set of practical tools to help clients incorporate feedback strategically – but not get hooked by it, and get acquainted with a framework for giving and receiving feedback with more ease and less stress.
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