What are your thoughts about the mindsets we have discussed in this series?
- We (coach and thinker) are co-travellers, travelling into the unknown together, designing the map as we go, because there is no map for this person’s unique journey. Link to blog here.
- The aim of coaching is to move the thinker beyond known thinking to new thinking. Link to blog here.
- Therefore, curiosity is for the benefit of the thinker’s new thinking, not the coach’s understanding. Link to blog here.
- The thinker is “creative, resourceful and whole” (Whitworth et al, 1998) and my job is to strengthen their thinking muscles, not do the thinking for them. Link to blog here.
- We access the wisdom of multiple intelligences, not just the cerebral rational intelligence. Link to blog here.
- We coach the person, not the problem (Franklin 2019, Reynolds 2020), meaning we focus on “who” the thinker wishes to be at an identity level, such that they can “do” things that match up to this person they wish to be, coming from a place of grounded beliefs, values and mindsets. Link to blog here.
- To coach the person, we use a vertical (challenging old assumptions and testing new hypotheses of being) development approach rather than horizontal (building task expertise) (Petrie, 2014). Link to blog here.
- Every coaching session is individualised to the in-the-moment needs of the thinker with whom we are working. No two session outcomes are ever the same. Link to blog here.
- The coach’s responsibility is for the process, the thinker’s responsibility is for the outcomes. Link to blog here.
