THINKING THROUGH HOW TO INTERVENE

Interventions do not pop out of thin air, you have to identify them, define them, and create them. You have to think through the coaching process of need, outcome, and process facilitation in order to create the right intervention for your client. The first four recommendations for how to think about an intervention are the following which were in last week’s Morpheus post.

1. Think Coaching Conversation.
2. Think Strategy.
3. Think Meta-State Interfaces.
4. Think Stability / Instability.

5) Think Thinking–Patterns. When it comes time to begin thinking about how to intervene, consider your client’s meta-programs. What are the dominant meta-programs or thinking patterns that you have detected? Get out the meta-program sheet with the 60 meta-programs and go through the central 15 that we highlight in Coaching Mastery. You don’t need to do an intense and thorough analysis— simply answer this: “What are the key meta-programs that seem to govern my client’s thinking, feeling, and choosing?”