COACHING YOUR CLIENTS’ BEST THINKING

Regarding the quality of your coaching and its effectiveness in the lives of your clients, the bottom line is this: A coaching client’s success and achievement is dependent on the quality of his or her thinking. The worse the quality of your client’s thinking, the worse will be the results of the coaching. For higher quality results, your client will need to learn how to think better. And for that, you— as the Meta-Coach—will need to coach your client for better thinking.

Now to facilitate that in you, we present in Meta-Coaching, the cognitive distortions. We go through those on Day 3 of ACMC. We mention each one, give examples of each, and identify when and how they will show up in coaching clients. Later, we send you the list of cognitive distortions and recommend that you provide that to your clients as reading material. Yet the cognitive distortions are not the only way in which thinking can go wrong. There is also the phenomenon of the cognitive biases and the cognitive fallacies.