BAND-AID COACHING

When it comes to any profession that works to invent, create, or deliver solid answers, solutions, and/or results—one critical key for success is being thorough. The secret is doing an excellent job in intelligence gathering (#1) before jumping to conclusions or solutions. Otherwise, the solution will be like putting a band-aid on severed limb!

Band-aid: A makeshift, limited, or temporary aid or solution that does not satisfy the basic or long-range need. The proposed reform isn't thorough enough to be more than just a band- aid that deals with a symptom rather than the cause.

This occurs in coaching when a coach focuses on symptoms and/or treats symptoms as critical influencing factors. But the problem is a complaint, a grumble, an emotion or emotional upset and not the cause. It’s just a symptom. Yes it is loud, noisey, and maybe urgent. It may be demanding. But it is a symptom none-the-less. It is not the cause, not the real problem.