ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author describes title "Basic skills", that is the "Fundamental skills". He emphasises the applied practice and focuses on the following three skills: 1. Listening; 2. Generating data; and 3. Giving and receiving feedback. He then share the experience during his time as a coach trainer, the four psychotherapeutic concepts that he had found to be of great use to him as well as his trainees, are: separating process from content; transference and countertransference; Projective Identification; and parallel process. Conveying and explaining these concepts to trainees over a year-long post-graduate training has been a challenge. He also presents these psychological concepts in their basic form, adjusting their use and application to executive coaching on occasion, supporting the content with real examples either from his practice or the practice of his supervisees and trainees. The use of self in generating data is the fine line that separates an adequate coach from an excellent coach.
