WHY DO SOME HAVE A HARD TIME ACKNOWLEDGING THE CLIENT
Acknowledging what the client says is such a simple and obvious skill— and yet one that many, many coaches, and even Meta-Coaches, sometimes have a hard time learning and integrating into their coaching.
Acknowledging what the client says is such a simple and obvious skill— and yet one that many, many coaches, and even Meta-Coaches, sometimes have a hard time learning and integrating into their coaching. Why? All you have to do to acknowledge is to listen to a sentence or statement which the person says and repeat it back. How hard could that be? Well, very hard if you are not listening!
Ah, listening again! We keep emphasizing the paramount importance of listening in coaching and that the quality of every coaching skill is dependent upon listening— but are you listening? Are you hearing that? Apparently many do not. And so as Meta-Coaches, months after ACMC— they are still not able to get 7 acknowledgments recorded under the skill of Supporting. They repeat some key words here and there. They even repeat fragments of sentences. But they do not take the whole of a person’s words, a complete sentence, and repeat it back.