“BUT WHY DO I NEED A COACH?”

That’s what a Meta-Coach said to me recently. He had asked about improving his coaching, and my first response was a question, “Do you have a coach?” “Did you make arrangements with anyone at Coaching Mastery so that you and that person could do some buddy-coaching with each other?” That’s when I got the complaint, “But why do I need a coach?”

“Do you really want to know the answer to that question?” I then asked. There was a long pause. So I followed-up, “Or did you say that as a rhetorical statement and what you meant is, “I’m don’t need a coach!” He smiled.

Later that day I went for a run and during the run I began wondering, “How many Meta-Coaches not only do not have a coach and are not accountable to anyone, but also think that somehow they are beyond the need of a coach? And that led to more questions, “Do we have some Meta- Coaches who upon graduation thought that now they don’t need a coach? How many might actually be uncoachable?”