WHEN YOU GIVE YOUR CLIENT FEEDBACK

Essential to effective Meta-Coaching and especially when you advance beyond the ACMC level is the mirroring skills of coaching. These consist of receiving and giving feedback. Sounds simple, right? And yet they are not. In fact, these are some of the most profound skills that you, as a coach, can develop and use.

Now you know about getting feedback during and after a practice coaching session. That’s what we do day by day in ACMC. The assist team is always given two days training in how to do that and even with two days, most do not learn how to truly and effectively do it until they have had that training five times and practiced it over 40 days (5 ACMC experiences). After that, those doing the benchmarking become basically proficient. Now as a process, that particular kind of feedback is feedback given to the benchmark criteria that has been set out in behavioral terms. Because of that, the feedback is primarily sensory-based to a well-developed set of criteria.