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IAC Learning Guide for Coaching Mastery 8
#8 Inviting possibility | Definition |
Creating an environment that allows ideas, options and opportunities to emerge. |
| Effect |
1. The coach enables expansion of thoughts and actions.
2. The client’s awareness is expanded.
3. The coach helps client transcend barriers.
4. The client is willing to leave his/her comfort zone.
5. The client has more options. |
| Key Elements |
1. Trust, openness, curiosity, courage, and recognition of potential.
2. The coach and the client communicate through exploration and discovery.
3. Identify “internal” possibilities (e.g., personal greatness, higher purpose) and “external” possibilities (e.g., resources, memes).
4. Possibilities are generated by the coach, the client or a collaboration of the two. |
| Distinctions |
- “beginner’s mind” vs. imposing expertise
- creative vs. prescriptive
- expansion vs. resolution
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| Effective Behaviors |
The coach:
1. Uses appropriate tools and techniques to create the environment for expansion, inviting possibility.
2. Draws on various scenarios, circumstances and cultures to expand the client’s options.
3. Poses questions to enhance the process of discovery.
4. Minimizes effects of conditioned thinking.
5. Brainstorms with the client, once the direction of appropriate action and progress for the client is identified.
6. Helps the client see the possibilities from a larger perspective.
7. Is provocative when necessary to encourage the client’s expansion.
8. Stays open to possibility, even when the client resists.
9. Is willing to let the unknown present itself.
10. Encourages the client to explore the most ambitious options.
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| Ineffective Behaviors |
The coach:
1. Is attached to a particular framework or process.
2. Is seeking a particular outcome or answer.
3. Rushes to find a solution.
4. Accepts the client’s perceived limitations.
5. Asks leading questions or too many questions.
6. Allows the client’s “story” to constrain the exploration of possibility. |
| Measures |
1. The conversation enters new and potentially unrelated areas.
2. The client has an insight that takes the client by surprise.
3. The client is receptive and recognizes expansion, help, or other ideas are possible.
4. The coach offers new possibilities.
5. The client offers new possibilities.
6. The client expresses either sincere enthusiasm regarding new possibilities or an acceptance of the process. |
| Common Mistakes Coaches Make |
- Coming up with all the ideas or possibilities themselves, rather than facilitating the process for the client.
- Thinking all the ideas need to be acted upon.
- Trying too hard to figure things out.
- Searching for a particular answer rather than being curious. |
| Indicators the Coach Understands the Mastery |
- The coach notices how ideas build on each other.
- The coach does not force this mastery into the coaching session. It occurs naturally as a part of the session.
- The coach helps the client expand on what could be – thinking beyond what was previously considered. |
| Definition |
Creating an environment that allows ideas, options and opportunities to emerge.
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| Effect |
1. The coach enables expansion of thoughts and actions.
2. The client’s awareness is expanded.
3. The coach helps client transcend barriers.
4. The client is willing to leave his/her comfort zone.
5. The client has more options.
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| Key Elements |
1. Trust, openness, curiosity, courage, and recognition of potential.
2. The coach and the client communicate through exploration and discovery.
3. Identify “internal” possibilities (e.g., personal greatness, higher purpose) and “external” possibilities (e.g., resources, memes).
4. Possibilities are generated by the coach, the client or a collaboration of the two.
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| Distinctions |
- “beginner’s mind” vs. imposing expertise
- creative vs. prescriptive
- expansion vs. resolution
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| Effective Behaviors |
The coach:
1. Uses appropriate tools and techniques to create the environment for expansion.
2. Draws on various scenarios, circumstances and cultures to expand the client’s options.
3. Poses questions to enhance the process of discovery.
4. Minimizes effects of conditioned thinking.
5. Brainstorms with the client.
6. Helps the client see his/her possibilities from a larger perspective.
7. Is provocative when necessary to encourage the client’s expansion.
8. Stays open to possibility, even when the client resists.
9. Is willing to let the unknown present itself.
10. Encourages the client to explore the most ambitious options.
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| Ineffective Behaviors |
The coach:
1. Is attached to a particular framework or process.
2. Is seeking a particular outcome or answer.
3. Rushes to find a solution.
4. Accepts the client’s perceived limitations.
5. Asks leading questions or too many questions.
6. Allows the client’s “story” to constrain the exploration of possibility.
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| Measures |
1. The conversation enters new and potentially unrelated areas.
2. The client has an insight that takes him or her by surprise.
3. The client is receptive and recognizes expansion is possible.
4. The coach offers new possibilities.
5. The client offers new possibilities.
6. The client expresses enthusiasm regarding new possibilities. |
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