chapter 6

Coaching conversations: The Coaching Path

‘True navigation begins in the human heart. It’s the most important map of all.’

Elizabeth Kapu’uwailani Lindsey

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. My 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. ...

Get The Coaching Manual, 5th Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.