CHALLENGING POTENTIALS

Coaching is all about challenging potentials. You know that, I know that. But here is the question: Specifically how do we do that? And, by the way, what is a “potential?”

How can you identify a “potential? ” How do you as a coach call a potential out? How do you develop the potential? If Self-Actualization Psychology is our psychology and if human potential our focus— how does all of this actually work when you sit down to coach a client?

First, potential. What is potential is in contrast to what is actual. If something is actual, it is not potential. If something could be, but is not, then it is possible or a potential. Think about a small child—for most people it is easy to recognize that this small person has lots of potentials. It is also obvious that looking at the child you do not see, and cannot see, what is potential in that child.

Will this child become a musician, architect, teacher, judge, policeman, pilot, dentist, or what? So, what will the child become? How can we plot his or her future?