HOW TO TRAIN AND COACH MASTERFUL INCOMPETENCE

If you want a quick and down-and-dirty way to train and coach people for greater levels of incompetence, here are some very effective and powerful ways to do that. It’s not that I would want you to do that, in fact, I would hope you would do the opposite! Yet as a modeler, I’ve been noticing how ineffective trainers and coaches are so skilled in creating so many incompetent practitioners or to have clients who stay with them for a long, long time and never develop the competence that they seek.

1) When you hear an emotion, or think you hear an emotion, focus exclusively on the emotion—focus on its intensity, its source, its expression. And if it is a negative emotion, assume that it is terrible, bad, a tragedy, and that you need to immediately move the person away from it.