DON’T BELIEVE WHAT YOU HEAR!

This next recommendation I have given to several whose video I watched. It is a paradoxical recommendation. Yet what may seem contradictory on the surface is only a seeming one and not an actual contradiction. Similar to compassion and challenge, this next recommendation involves a synergy of two equally skills and skills that you can learn to do at the same time.

7) Be skeptical. This paradox in the coaching process involves how you approach and respond to your client. On the one hand you should naively accept whatever your client says and explore it while on the other hand, you should be totally skeptical about the validity of what your client says. Does that sound contradictory? If it does, then when you hear it, you may very well feel like asking, “Okay, so which one should I do?” Yet while these seeming recommendations may seem like a contradiction, they are not.