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I recently received this wonderful email from a beginning coach. Dear Brian, I am a beginner coach from Mumbai, India. I have been following Chad and you by reading your books and mails and they have helped me tremendously in my coaching practice. I listened to your podcast on Questions to NEVER Ask and have a
Father Greg Boyle, founder of the largest gang-intervention, rehabilitation, and re-entry program in the world, was asked to describe humbleness. He shared a story about a man who had asked him how to reach a hardened gang member. Boyle’s response astounded me. “For starters, stop trying to reach them. Can you be reached by them?”
Okay, so the title of this blogpost is kind of tongue-in-cheek. Coaches don’t tell their clients what they need. If you’re doing much of that you’re probably not a very good coach. That said, coaches do offer clients tools to help them achieve the life they want and the goals they desire. Two of the
If you read our blog, attend our webinars, listen to our podcast or take our training classes, you’ve probably heard us say “coach the person, not the problem” plenty of times. We say that a lot because that’s one of (if not THE) big distinctions between beginner-level coaching and professional-level coaching.
When you’re first learning to coach, we all learn that a good coach can coach a client on pretty much any topic. The norm in coach training is that the coach will start the conversation with, “What would you like to talk about?” and then the client could come back with any variety of issues:
Coaches dread hearing these three words from their client: “I don’t know.” It is the anthem of the client who is stuck. The words are often accompanied by a heavy wet blanket feeling that expresses the client’s low worth. Here are five good responses for the coach when they hear these painful words.
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