FROM A PSEUDO-SKILL TO EXCELLENCE IN COACHING

What if you think you have a skill, what if you actually do know all about that skill, what if you can describe it and even teach it to others—what is the likelihood that you can do that skill? Most of us would say that it is very likely that you can do that skill. And while that is often true, it is not always true. All of that certainly does not guarantee it. In fact, this may be yet another way of describing the knowing—doing gap. You know but cannot do.

In that case you have a pseudo-skill. You have a pseudo-skill when you know enough about a skill to know about it, understand it, and yet you cannot pull it off. The skill is therefore false. Pseudo. This was a discovery I made in the last few days here in Hong Kong working with Mandy Chai and our team here as we are conducting the 102 ACMC. Now what has brought this to the forefront of my thinking is the use of the deliberate practice feedback.