MORE ON PRIMING The Art of Priming (Part III)

When I ended the Art of Priming after only two articles, and then started something else last week, several people wrote and asked for more illustrations and examples of priming. So while I explained priming is an advanced skill for the PCMC level and that I give lots of examples of where a coach could do some priming when I set with Coaches for their PCMC status and even on the Assist Team when we do so many coaching sessions and then unpack the structure, I said that I might just offer a few examples. [There is no priming in this first paragraph; do not go back and hunt for it, you won’t find it unless of course you do, but then who knows if you really do?]

Given that priming is creating response potential, then to develop this art, you’ll want to be in a curious and explorative mode so that you can think and ask yourself, “What is the response potential that my client has that I, as a professional coach, can prime so that it facilitates the outcomes that my client wants?”