STRATEGIC COACHING

I have a question for you, “Is your coaching strategic?” If so, “How strategic is your coaching?” “Does your coaching need to be more strategic?” Even if you haven’t discerned this yet, it shouldn’t surprise you to learn that Meta-Coaching is designed as a highly strategic approach to coaching. In fact we have a page in the ACMC manual that presents what we call the systemic or strategic question. On page 32 we ask the question to test whether you operate from a strategic structure or if your coaching is a by-the-seat-of-your-pants approach (i.e., do whatever strikes your fancy in the moment).

How do you know what to do, when to do it, with whom to do it, and why? What do you do with clients?

We engage in coaching conversations as we relate, explore, induce states, facilitate processes, ask questions and meta-questions. We use meta-tools (like the WFO questions) for facilitating a client to access and mobilize his resources to achieve his objectives. We get to the heart of things—the person’s meaning and frames by using the Meta-States Model and its levels of meta-questions.