Chapter 6
Coaching conversations: the coaching path
The best journeys in life are those that answer questions you never thought to ask.
Rick Ridgeway
This chapter offers you a supporting structure, or guide, for a typical coaching conversation. By typical, I refer to most formal coaching conversations, as well as many casual or unplanned conversations. The ‘coaching path’ is intended to help you navigate through a conversation. It is not intended to provide a definitive formula, or to inhibit your natural creativity and flexibility. So please use what follows to support and encourage your coaching, rather than be restricted by it.
Figure 6.1 illustrates the basic path that a typical coaching conversation might follow. Although you’ll see five ...
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