META-PROGRAMS FOR FIGURING OUT A CLIENT

For you, as a coach, one of the designs of the meta-programs is to enable you to figure out your client. So, how do you figure out your client? Now because every client is different and every one brings different concerns to the coaching conversation, coaching requires a lot of flexibility. That’s why rigid formats and techniques do not work very well in coaching. Obviously, to figure out a client, you then have a pretty good idea about how he operates in the world in terms of thinking, feeling, and responding. That’s why knowing the Meta-Programs Model gives you a head start.

Now while anyone of us can adopt any number of thoughts, beliefs, decisions, lifestyles, etc., and while the range of thinking patterns is pretty broad, we are also amazingly consistent within ourselves. Day after day, month after month, year after year—most people maintain an incredible amount of consistency in their “personality.” Given all of the changes around us, all of the new and different stimuli we experience via television, internet, social media, etc. on a daily basis, how is it that we are able to be consistently ourselves? A significant part of the answer lies in our meta-programs.