FOUR WAYS TO OPEN A COACHING SESSION

In the last post, I offered you the first two ways to open a coaching conversation. Now we are ready for the next two.

A third way to open a coaching session is with the how question. “How do you do X?” This could be about how a client is doing anything which the client does not want to do from procrastinating, to being perfectionistic, to being critical, self-contempting, anger-prone, anxiety- prone, etc. “How do you do X?” is then a question about strategy. It comes from the basic NLP premise that every behavior has a structure. Given that, when we become aware of how we do something, we are at a choice point for change, for doing it in a different way.