COACHING PERSISTENCE

At the heart of coaching is setting goals in an intelligent way. It is about goals that call upon you and I to step up and begin to unleash our highest potentials. And one of the truly powerful tools that you have as a Meta-Coach is the extensive Well-Formed Outcome Questions. You set a goal when you set out to become truly competent in the Coaching Skills— have you reached that goal yet? Have you sustained that goal?

Reaching a goal is one thing; sustaining it is a very different one. To do that requires persistence. Yet it is here that many people fail. The initial excitement of a goal, of reaching it, carries them through to the point that they develop a particular skill, but upon completing it— they quit. They give up. They move on to something else and then all of their hard work evaporates as their skill level deteriorates. Persisting in sustaining your skill development is critical because in that way, by over-learning, the skill eventually becomes incorporated into your automatic responses.