A REAL META-COACH META-MODELS

Question: How well do you know the Meta-Model? That is the model you learned in Coaching Essentials —and we put it there because it is absolutely essential if you want to learn coaching. It is perhaps the most fundamental coaching skill of all. At least I hope you learned it there. Ideally, when you learned about it, you practiced it night and day and drove it into your unconscious competence. Some Meta-Coaches do not. I recently had an engagement with some Trainers who supposedly train the Meta-Model, but who do not practice it in their own languaging. That’s really tragic.

When it comes to Meta-Coaches, I can detect if a person understands and is competent to Meta-Model within minutes when a coaching session begins. I can also detect someone who does not know it. Within minutes they show that they don’t know how to gather high quality information and so it does not take long for them to be confused about the subject of the session.