The Making of a Coach
The Making of a Coach
Podcast Description
The Making of a Coach takes you on the paths of succesful Coaches, Facilitators and People Developers. Learn how they turned their passion into profession.
Take inspiration for your own journey as a coach by listening in on deep conversations on how they became who they are, how they made coaching their business and the methods they use to help people grow.
Tobias Weghorn, co-founder of the global brand metaFox Coaching Tools, dives into coaching practice as well as pricing and positioning, taking a look behind the practice of successful coaches.
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Content Themes
The podcast explores themes of coaching methodologies, personal growth, and business development within the coaching sector. Specific episodes delve into topics like outdoor coaching experiences, leadership development, multicultural influences in coaching, and the use of personality tools such as MBTI, with examples including walk-and-talk coaching and unique pricing strategies.
The Impactful Coach is a coaching podcast for coaches, facilitators, and people developers who want to make their coaching sessions more impactful.
On the show, metaFox Co-founder Tobi Weghorn interviews experienced practitioners to unpack concrete coaching skills, practical methods or even hops into the client role for hands-on coaching demos. Learn coaching from real coaching conversations and deep dives into Mindset, Methods, Skills & Tools.
More on https://metaFox.eu/podcast
A coaching podcast with Heike Aiello and Tobias Weghorn about how to stop coaching in the problem space—and instead use appreciative coaching to expand what already works. Heike shares why she considers it “unethical to coach the problem,” and walks you through the appreciative inquiry coaching process: define, discover, dream, design, destiny (Discover, Dream, Design, Destiny). You’ll hear how to use generative coaching questions to move clients out of the “shadow” of the issue and into a more resourceful state, plus a short coaching demo where Heike coaches Tobi on making confident choices. If you want to learn coaching that creates energy (not just analysis), this episode is your playbook.
Key Learnings:
- Use appreciative coaching to reframe the client’s problem as data, then shift into a clear “what do you really want?” statement before you do any deep exploration.
- Run a simple Discover → Dream → Design → Destiny flow: collect “green dot” evidence in Discover, then turn it into future images and small learning experiments—especially when clients feel stuck.
- Craft 2–3 generative coaching questions (not “root cause” questions) that connect past success to next steps, and use “3 minutes / 30 minutes / 3 hours / 3 days / 3 weeks” prompts to make action inevitable.
Resources:
- Heike Aiello's Website: https://www.coreconnect.today/
- Heike Aiello's LinkedIn: https://de.linkedin.com/in/heikeaiello
- AIP Practitioner (Appreciative Inquiry Practitioner Magazine): https://aipractitioner.com/
- Find your Coaching Tool: https://metaFox.eu
- Try the metaFox Strengths Discovery: https://strengths-discovery.com
- Connect with Tobi on LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/tobiasweghorn
Episode Chapters:
00:01 Appreciative Coaching vs. Coaching the Problem
00:02 Discover, Dream, Design, Destiny (Appreciative Inquiry Coaching Process)
00:07 Step Out of the “Shadow”: From Problem to Desired Future
00:11 Destiny in Practice: Learning Experiments, Tracking, and Fanning
00:26 Coaching Demo: Making Choices Without Regret
00:44 The Anticipatory Principle and Visualizing the Future
00:47 Generative Coaching Questions and the Five AI Principles
00:52 Making Room for the Shadow (Not “Happy Clappy”)
00:58 Where to Learn Appreciative Inquiry (AI Commons, AIP, TAOS)
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