THE ART OF BEING COACHED

For years I’ve been writing these posts on coaching and I have never before written about being the client. Yet this is also an important part of coaching— receiving coaching. In every one of the thirty-some interviews I have conducted with expert coaches— everyone of them said that they had a coach and regularly received coaching. That’s important for your own personal development as a coach. It’s one of the reasons we required 10 hours of being coached by a Meta- Coach when you want to go to the PCMC level.

What you can learn from being coached are many of the insider’s point of view that you might not know or forget when all you are doing is coaching. It may also give you important insights for enabling and helping your clients be better clients. After all, since coaching is a conversation like non-other, most people do not naturally know how to be a great client. If a client asked you: “What do you want from me so that I can be a great client?” “What are the behaviors of someone who really knows how to be coached?”