COACHING PRECISION

If you ask about the grounding of Meta-Coaching, think—the NLP Communication Model which is a model that is all about precision. That model is about how to communicate meaning in more precise ways so that message-sent and message-received can be brought together and made a consistent message. That’s why, in Meta-Coaching, we use The Meta-Model of Language which was originally introduced in The Structure of Magic and which Bandler asked me to write the 25- year update in 1997, Communication Magic.

Now the problem in communication is this—most people communicate in global, over- generalized, and vague ways and do so in such a way that their communications are not clear or precise either to themselves or to others. Sometimes this is so much true that their communications are worse than just too global, they are downright confusing—deleting too much and distorting too much. That’s why coaching begins by helping them get clear on what they are thinking and trying to say. That’s why you ask clarification questions, checking questions, testing questions and even exploration questions— all in an attempt to enable the speaker to be more precise.