Connect, Reflect, Direct...Then Ask (On Coaching) Ed Batista
Open with: What’s on your mind? The perfect way to start; the question is open but focused. Check in: Is there anything else on your mind? Give the person an option to share additional concerns. Then begin to focus: So what’s the real challenge here for you? Already the conversation will deepen. Your job now is to find what’s most useful to look at
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WHAT DO I WANT MY INTAKE conversation, my long “getting-to-know-you” conversation with a coaching prospect to demonstrate? I want it to demonstrate my curiosity, my love of coaching, my ability to relate a story or case history or two about people I’ve helped through coaching, my ability to listen, to relate, to get to the bottom of things, and my
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Listening, I’ve come to understand, is bearing witness to lives unfolding, to lives being discovered. Deep listening, listening compassionately, means guiding, gently nudging, or sometimes shoving people down the path of radical self-inquiry so they can make their way to their own truest selves. Then, and only then, can they lead with the dignity a
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To communicate with someone, we must connect with them. When we absorb what someone is saying, and they comprehend what we say, it’s because our brains have, to some degree, aligned
is authenticity, not mimicry, that best serves as the coach’s initial linchpin toward establishing a strong connection with others.