THE AMAZING THING OF WATCHING AN EXPERT AT WORK

Yesterday (Friday Oct. 3), here in Brussels, we (50 of us) watched with delight, amazement, emotion, curiosity, and awe as Graham Richardson did five coaching sessions. They were five very different coaching sessions with five very different clients with different needs. And watching the five sessions, while we saw a consistency in his basic skills and style, we also so an incredible flexibility to go where the client is, step into his or her world, “experience what the client is experiencing,” and begin to connect and coach each client. The ability to adjust to the client was very well demonstrated—one of the things people said that they would be taking away from the session. Graham was brilliant and we all learned a lot.