UPDATE ON THE KINDS OF COACHING CONVERSATIONS

When the Meta-Coaching System began we did not have any list of the kinds of Coaching Conversations. Accordingly, that was one of the first things that Michelle Duval and I worked on. As a result, we made a list and used it for our first book in 2003, Coaching Conversations. How did we come up with that original list? We really did not have any criteria or structure to it, we just took what was immediately before us.

As the years passed, I started wondering about the kinds of coaching conversations. From time to time I would be benchmarking a new coach who would ask, “What kind of conversation should I began with?” Eventually I started cataloguing the kinds and that lead to the first 6 Coaching Conversations:

1) The Clarity Conversation

2) The Decision Conversation

3) The Planning Conversation

4) The Experience (for Resourcing) Conversation

5) The Change Conversation

6) The Confrontation Conversation

The next set of six Coaching Conversations began to form as I started studying, interviewing, and modeling Group Coaching. These conversations are describe in detail in Group and Team Coaching (2013).