QUADRANT CHALLENGING

There’s another level and kind of challenging in Meta-Coaching, one that is actually unique to our models, and one that is very powerful. Recall the Self-Actualization Quadrants and the strengths that are indicated by the high level quadrants of either Meaning or Performance.

In Quadrant II the strength of the client is that of doing— performance, action, and task. This person is action-oriented. He is probably proactive, an initiator, task-focused, practical and pragmatic. The likelihood is that this person wants and cares about results and so results is on the mind. Results colors his thinking about himself, he is a task-oriented person. It’s part and parcel of his identity. And when things, for whatever reason, are not going well, he over-does the performing. He works harder and harder. He gets more and more stressed about the outcome not reaching his wants, his expectations, his inner demands.