HOW TO THINK ABOUT YOUR INTERVENTIONS

After the coaching contract comes the intervention. Finally! But how do you think through what and how to intervene? I’ve been hearing that question increasingly and with more and more Meta-Coaches moving to the PCMC level, that has come up repeatedly. What I first wrote about interventions last year (Oct. 2018) is here updated and expanded.

When you coach, you first get a definition and description of the coaching conversation which the client wishes for the session or for the coaching program. First comes the quality time you spend as you engage your client in a very special kind of conversation— one that most people would love to have, but do not because they do not have a well-trained coach who can facilitate it. First you lead a person through a well-formed outcome to make sure that the transformative conversation will deliver what the person both wants and needs. By the end of the outcome conversation, your client will have a clear idea of what would be worth his time, effort, and money to achieve. And you have a contract!