COACHING CONFRONTATION WITH A GROUP

I mentioned in the past two Meta-Coach Reflections that there are two kinds of Confrontational Conversations that you can facilitate as a coach.

1) The first one is The Confrontational Conversation. This one is personal and individual, it is coach to client. Sometimes a client is actually seeking and willing to have a fierce conversation about a critical factor in his or her life that’s undermining success. Sometimes it is the coach who recognizes a factor in the client that needs confronting— an inconsistency, a blind spot, a frame outside of the client’s awareness. In every case, the confrontation needs to be in service of the client’s highest and best.

So as a coach, you can ask yourself such questions as: Will this confrontation help the client reach his or her desired outcome? Will this confrontation facilitate greater self-awareness and choice in the client? Does the client have the required resources and ego-strength to handle the confrontation?