THE META-COACHING STRATEGY PAR EXCELLENCE

Think about coaching a client and what immediately comes to your mind regarding your strategy? You are about to coach someone, what format will you use? What do you want to know about your client as you begin so you can make a transformational difference in that person’s life? Whatever it is, the strategy will determine so much about what will happen in the session.

Recently in Egypt, when I observed and benchmarked several Meta-Coaches, I was struck by how many were actually mis-using the Well-Formed Outcome Questions. Instead of using them to do high quality information gathering, several used the questions to search for a topic for intervention. That is, they used them as if they were a set of 18 doors to knock on, then when someone answered the door that suggesting a coachable subject, they jumped right in and began working it. Then before I knew it, they were doing an intervention!