{"id":6887,"date":"2024-02-14T19:22:31","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T19:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.reciprocoach.com\/?p=6887"},"modified":"2024-02-14T19:22:31","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T19:22:31","slug":"how-to-go-beyond-reflection-and-optimise-critical-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reciprocoach.com\/blog\/how-to-go-beyond-reflection-and-optimise-critical-thinking\/","title":{"rendered":"How to go beyond reflection and optimise critical thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Thinking<\/em> is often seen as synonymous with <em>coaching<\/em>. We coaches frequently refer to ourselves as \u201cthinking partners\u201d and unanimously recognise coaching sessions as a \u201cthinking space\u201d. Given one argument that suggests many clients could do equally well without their coaches if they would simply stop and take time to think, it is no surprise, in contrast, that critical thinking is becoming increasingly recognised as a fundamental capability that could give coaches a competitive edge over mere thinking time. Indeed, coaches who have developed their own critical thinking capacity are in a better position to take reflection a step further and move into the realms and amplified outcomes of critical thinking.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6888\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.reciprocoach.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Source-Sans-Pro-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"660\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reciprocoach.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Source-Sans-Pro-2.png 1080w, https:\/\/reciprocoach.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Source-Sans-Pro-2-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/reciprocoach.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Source-Sans-Pro-2-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/reciprocoach.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Source-Sans-Pro-2-768x768.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This issue of Coaching Research in Practice delves into a recent study of critical thinking among coaches and clients and highlights the essential elements that have been shown to foster an optimum critical thinking environment in coaching. Given the value placed on critical thinking in today\u2019s rapidly changing world and for coaching professionals themselves, this article gives coaches important insight into cultivating a critical thinking environment in coaching sessions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i>Be quick! This issue of\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/reciprocoach.com\/coaching-research\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>Coaching Research in Practice<\/i><\/a><i>\u00a0is\u00a0freely accessible to all ReciproCoach members for one week. Thereafter, this article, like all other past issues of Coaching Research in Practice, will require a paid subscription to read. Most paid\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/reciprocoach.com\/membership\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>ReciproCoach memberships\u00a0<\/i><\/a><i>include full access to the Coaching Research in Practice library.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Read full article here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/reciprocoach.com\/coaching-research#!#176\">https:\/\/reciprocoach.com\/coaching-research#!#176<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Written by Kerryn Griffiths, PhD, PCC and Global ReciproCoach Coordinator<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thinking is often seen as synonymous with coaching. We coaches frequently refer to ourselves as \u201cthinking partners\u201d and unanimously recognise coaching sessions as a \u201cthinking space\u201d. Given one argument that suggests many clients could do equally well without their coaches if they would simply stop and take time to think, it is no surprise, in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"gutentor_comment":0,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reciprocoach.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reciprocoach.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reciprocoach.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reciprocoach.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reciprocoach.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reciprocoach.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6893,"href":"https:\/\/reciprocoach.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6887\/revisions\/6893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reciprocoach.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reciprocoach.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reciprocoach.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}