Coffee House Coaching
Coffee House Coaching
Gary Nowak
Ep 68 Amiel Handelsman - Impeccable Coaching Advice / Using His Humor / Loves His Clients
44 minutes Posted Sep 21, 2023 at 7:00 am.
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Some Highlights:

  • Keeping it simple in this podcast and see if you think he sounds like Dennis Miller
  • Heard about coaching at 23 years old 
    • Took a while for him to connect the dots
    • Realized that his early experience was planting the seed for coaching
    • Got advice - Just ask a lot of dumb questions and he was on his way to a coaching career
  • Coaching teams that demand he works with the CEO
  • Experiencing backstabbing and he referenced an article 
    • Article "How come every time I get stabbed in the back, my fingerprints are on the knife?" 
  • Teaching smart people how to learn (asking questions)
  • You just need to "Sharpen the swing"
  • Going for big insights with his clients early on
  • Skills vs qualities
  • Loves what his clients are up to in the world, connectedness
  • Coaching University Presidents
  • Advice to coaches early in their career
     
    • Don't do "harm" your clients when you first start out 
    • Don't coach others as if they were you 
    • Don't coach everyone the same way 
    • Being a good coach is like being good at Improv 
  • Using his humor to help his clients relax