The CoachAccountable Perspective – An authentic view of what works from the receiving end of being coached

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Psychology

We are Paying You to Make Us Believe that You Care

And anything that shatters that illusion makes us less eager to keep paying you. How do you make us believe that you care? By tracking with our story By knowing where we’ve been and what we’re up to By having all your words be your…

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Session Notes

The Session Notes are the Product

Here’s a novel twist on what you produce as a coach: Session Notes. Not conversations, not insights, not breakthroughs, not even results in cold, hard numbers. Session Notes. Your job? It’s to produce notes from your sessions. Bear with me here. This is not literally…

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Psychology

The Yin and Yang of Coaching

This is a distinction around the flavor of coaching that doesn’t really get talked about, but I think it’s actually crucial for coaching to live up to its promise. So what do I mean by “The Yin and Yang of Coaching”? Let’s begin with the…

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Psychology

Ever Listen to Your Clients Like a Polite Stranger on a Bus?

Probably. Consider the possibility that the answer to that question is: probably. I want to distinguish a scale, call it the “Degree of Investment” scale, i.e. how invested you are in the person you’re talking with. At the lower end of the scale, you’re like…

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Showcasing Style

Prototype the Sorts of Outcomes That Happen

Thank you for reading this far into the article, because hoo-boy is that title a weird mouthful that’s apt to make eyes glaze over; LIKELY for lack of clear meaning, which of course means no substance to compel you to read on. So why didn’t…

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Psychology

Shut up and do the reps

I remember the first time I heard the word “coaching” used to refer to the sort of coaching we here all know and love, i.e. NOT to do with sports or athletics of any sort. This new sense of the word “coaching” opened up a…

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Phone-a-Friend as a Service

You all remember that life-line from Who Wants to be a Millionaire, right? I called a buddy the other day. I was looking for some tactical advice on a matter he was quite well-versed in. During the conversation, I realized there was a fully separate…

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Action Planning

The First Step is to Survive

There’s a Warren Buffett truism regarding investing: “to make money you must first survive”. This is self-evident logic, and thus easy to overlook. But let’s take a beat to look into it, and see how this translates into a certain kind of value you as…

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Showcasing Style

Knowing is Nice, Execution’s the Game

Indulge me for a beat while I presence a trope: How do you lose weight? All together now, that’s right: “diet and exercise.” This ostensibly trite and arguably overplayed goal, weight loss, is nice stand-in for virtually any endeavor we clients might be up to…

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Why the “Lesser” Can Effectively Coach the “Greater”

“Woah, this person has accomplished objectively more… who am I to be their coach?” If you’ve ever found yourself unnerved in this scenario, or any other that similarly evokes the impostor syndrome, take heart. There are ways by which an ostensibly “less” powerful/skilled/experienced/whatever person can…

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