COACHING SMART DECISIONS
When it comes to making smart decisions— we all need help.
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When it comes to making smart decisions— we all need help.
Given that lots of people start things and do not finish them— there’s lots of people who need resilience coaching.
It will not surprise most of you that most coaching clients do not come to coaching knowing how to be an ideal or even a good client.
“Is humor coaching all lightheartedness and fun?”
Do you ever do humor coaching?
If you have heard it once, I bet you have heard it dozens if not hundreds of times, “You’ve got to think outside of the box.”
The next item on the list of things that could go wrong in coaching is “You get caught up in the details.”
The next item on the list of things that could go wrong in coaching is “You fail to challenge.”
The next item on the list of things that could go wrong in coaching is “You fail to inspire.”
The next item on the list of things that could go wrong is “You immunize a person against change.”
The next item on the list of things that could go wrong is: “You induce the wrong states.”
The next item on the list of things that could go wrong is: “You reinforce limiting beliefs.”
The next item on the list of things that could go wrong is “You don’t get specific, you stay in la-la land.”
Here’s something else that could go wrong in coaching and this happens to be a subtle one— your client’s goals don’t develop.
Your client walks in, plops down in your coaching chair, you ask the question, “What do you want?”
Your client walks in, plops down in your coaching chair, you ask the question, “What do you want?”
The only way that you can laugh at something unpleasant, incongruent, or even distressful is to step back from it.
If you are like most people (and as a Meta-Coach, I hope you are not!), you wouldn’t have even a clue that humor requires multiple meta-levels.
You don’t need to make things up, the truth is entertaining enough.
How humorous are you as a coach?
When you think and talk about the field of coaching, more than likely you are in a business state, a matter-of-fact state, and a serious state.
When you bring one state to another (meta-state), you invite a person to move up (transcend) the first state and enter into a higher state.
In the previous article, I suggested that by using clarity checks and slowing the conversation down (#3), you can empower and facilitate your clients.
Do you know how to detect the source of your client’s talking— where they are getting that information?
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