Mindset, Methods, Skills & Tools of Impactful Coaches: Highlights from one year 'Making of a Coach'

A coaching podcast with Max Friedle and Tobias Weghorn to close out a year of "The Making of a Coach" and kick off the rebrand to "The Impactful Coach". Using Max’s coaching development framework (mindset, methods, skills, tools), they look back at highlights from coaching demos and episodes - and what actually makes sessions more impactful in real life. You’ll hear how solution focused coaching keeps conversations light and future-oriented, when the miracle question helps clients move fast, and why “ready, willing, and eager” can be a useful readiness gate. They also get practical about emotional hygiene before coaching sessions and silence as a coaching intervention (yes: count to six).

Key Learnings:
Use solution focused coaching to shift fast from “what’s wrong” to “what’s desirable”: explore exceptions first, then use the miracle question to help clients describe the desired future in detail.
Build a simple readiness gate: only coach clients who are ready, willing, and eager - so the work stays with the client (and solution focused coaching doesn’t turn into problem-fixing).
Practice emotional hygiene before coaching sessions and train silence as a coaching intervention: ask the question, hold eye contact, count to six, and let the client do the work.

Resources:
Find your Coaching Tool: https://metaFox.eu
Coach online: https://metaFox.online
Try the metaFox Strengths Discovery: https://strengths-discovery.com
Connect with Tobi:   / tobiasweghorn  
Connect with Max:   / maximilianfriedle  

Episode Chapters:
00:00 Teaser: Ready, Willing, And Eager + “You Gotta Shut Up At Times”
01:00 Anniversary Episode: Rebrand To Impactful Coach
03:00 The Coaching Development Framework: Mindset, Methods, Skills, Tools
06:00 Mindset: Hold Space, Don’t Fix (“It’s Not The Pam Show”)
09:00 Emotional Hygiene Before Coaching Sessions
11:00 Methods: Readiness Gate + Coaching Demos Focus
13:00 Solution Focused Coaching: Exceptions + Miracle Question
16:00 Zurich Resource Model (ZRM) Picture Work Meets Somatics
18:00 Skills: Silence As A Coaching Intervention (Count To Six)
24:00 Tools: Shared Language (Belbin, Strengths, MBTI) + Risks Of “Boxing”
34:00 What Changes In 2026: More Coaching Skills, Less CV Stories