IS IT TIME TO RESET THE COACHING SESSION?

Have you ever begun a coaching conversation with client and you just sensed that something was wrong? Or perhaps you began, and then the direction which the conversation took, for whatever reason, it was just wrong. It was off-track and you may or may not know how it got off. So what do you do if you start off wrong or get off-track? What then?

Or what if you have been going for five to ten minutes, and your client gets irritated with you or with the session? What if he gets upset and frustrated with the coaching and let’s you know that it is just not working? What then?

The answer for you as a Meta-Coach is to Reset. Sometimes either you or your client, or both of you, may simply not be in the right state when you began and things just don’t get off to the kind of start that you want and need as a professional Coach. Sometimes the conversations that either you or your client had prior to beginning the coaching session was not separated clearly enough from life-before- the-session, and so that previous life, as it were, contaminated the coaching conversation.