CHAPTER 5
BUILDING YOUR BASIC COACHING SKILLS: THE ‘BIG FIVE’
So when the door closes, and coach and coachee are finally left alone together, what actually happens? In this chapter, we cover the five absolute basics. In the next, we talk about some bells and whistles you can add on – but if you did just this chapter’s five simple (but not easy!) things really well, you would be astonished by the results. The ‘Big Five’* alone can be transformational.
* Not the psychometricians’ ‘Big Five’, or the ‘Big Five’ safari animals – the coaching Big Five!
In fact, I would be so radical as to say the other things are sometimes added in to make the coach feel better. The Big Five are like a Picasso drawing: others would cram more onto the page, but only ...
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