Sphere of Positive Influence and Referential Power Coaching – 6 CCEs in Core Competencies

Whether your client is looking for more positive influences in their life or is someone seeking to improve positive influence on others, referent power and creating positive spheres of influence are at the heart of coaching, and well aligned with ICF core competencies.

Exploring French & Raven’s Forms of Power and further distinguishing those into personal and positional power groups enhances your coaching tool box in able to better serve your clients. Since 1959 these concepts have applied to leaders and individuals across many spectrums in life. Referent power can lead to enthusiastic and unquestioning trust, compliance, loyalty, and commitment from subordinates.

As coaches, improving your knowledge of how people influence, and are influenced is key to improving your client outcomes in alignment with the ICF core competencies.