ML85 – The Powerful Coaching Model with Kim Ades

Kim Ades is President and Founder of Frame of Mind Coaching and JournalEngine Software. She is an author, speaker, entrepreneur, coach, and mother of 5. Kim is recognized as one of North America’s foremost experts on performance through thought mastery. Using her unique philosophy and quirky coaching style, she helps leaders shift their thinking for extraordinary results and personal transformation.

Kim Ades

Top Takeaways: The Powerful Coaching Model with Kim Ades

  • I don’t try to keep it all together, I just try to be present
  • Where parents make mistakes, leaders make mistakes
  • What makes a top performer- in all cases- it the answer is emotional resilience
  • Emotional resilience is a function of your thinking
  • Emotional intelligence is different from emotional resilience
  • The most important element of coaching is “you”
  • When leading people, one of the most important things is to assume positive intent
  • Assume and assign positive intent
  • Steps to powerful coaching success
    • Step 1: Assume positive intent
    • Step 2: Get their story
    • Step 3: Get under the story, all the juicy details
    • Step 4: Identify their beliefs
    • Step 5: Challenge their beliefs
  • To change behavior, change beliefs
  • Leaders challenge their own beliefs all the time
  • Is empathy a bad thing for coaches?

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Learning From Leaders: 

Current Book: Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World–and Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling

Leadership Superpower: Inspirational- crushing conventional wisdom

Motivational Mantra:

[shareable]What you focus on grows[/shareable]

Book Most Often Gifted: The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life by Rosamund Stone Zander

Additional Items Mentioned

Kim’s website: frameofmindcoaching.com

 

About the author

Jake Carlson is a popular speaker, accountability partner, and host of the Modern Leadership podcast. Jake built his business while traveling with his family around the world. Follow him on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn. Read more about him here.