Only smarties have the answer…
June 12, 2009 by coachclaire
Filed under Blog, Mindfulness
Coaching without answers.
As a coach, it’s important to remember “only smarties have the answer!”
Why?
As coaches, it can be easy to lose our mindfulness of the fact that coaching is not consultancy. We want to do our best by our clients. We want to be the best we can given the fact we have invested time and money to becoming coaches.
And yet…
Thinking you have to have the answers can absolutely get in the way of genuinely committing in the moment to where the conversation goes. It stops you hearing what is happening and gets you focused on you, rather than the client. To know that you don’t have to have the answers is very liberating, in it’s truest sense of freedom to just see what happens. Yet it can also feel challenging, difficult, and uncomfortable, especially when we are coaching in an area we may have expertise in. So, think about how you can best develop a beginners mind in your coaching to allow your questions, rather than your answers, to be the catalyst in the coaching work you do.
