COACHING WHEN THE ISSUE HITS HOME

Question: What do you do when you are too close to a client’s problem? I keep having a problem in coaching, the problem of understanding a problem if I am too close to it, if I am attached to it, if I care too much. Then I have expectations for each session and I put myself under pressure to get specific results. I also find it hard to recognize this when I’m in the situation, only later and then I only recognize the symptoms. So what is a coach to do?

What to do? First, run the De-Contamination Chamber pattern that we do on Day 1 of the Coaching Mastery training. If you care too much, then to that extent your ego is in the way. You have to succeed. For you, the client has to get his or her solution and “fix” and you have shifted roles from Coach to Therapist.