Challenging
High Growth Coaches know when and how to challenge clients
High growth Enterprise Coaches:
- Encourage clients to take responsibility and to be accountable
- Use a range of tools and techniques to challenge clients
- Challenge client assumptions, beliefs and understanding to provoke new insight
- Validate client understanding, perception and commitment to plans
- Hold clients to account for progress and follow-through
One of the benefits clients derive from being coached is the ability to explore and subsequently understand issues and challenges from different perspectives. Often individuals are trapped by their relatively narrow perception and understanding of their ‘model of the world’.
Model of the World
The way in which people interpret and make sense of events and the world per se is based upon their experience and current knowledge which collectively form their paradigm or ‘model of the world’. Coaching is a powerful tool that can help clients to explore different perceptions and to re-shape or develop their ‘model of the world’.
A paradigm is like a mental map. Mental maps can be divided into two main categories:
- maps of the way things are, or realities
- maps of the way things should be
People interpret everything they experience through these mental maps or ‘models of the world’ which are built on their experiences, values and beliefs. An individual’s model of the world is constantly evolving and developing as they encounter new experiences, acquire new knowledge and gain new understanding and insight.
Incremental changes to an individual’s ‘model of the world’ take place slowly and continuously. Significant and immediate changes or paradigm shifts take longer or require a significant catalyst.
High growth Enterprise Coaches are typically engaged in helping clients to develop their ‘model of the world’ significantly and rapidly. Such transformational coaching is about helping clients to change by enabling them to view themselves and their ‘model of the world’ differently. It is about helping clients to think differently. It involves clients in setting goals, creating new mental maps, taking responsibility for change, and making things happen.
“Paradigms are generally defined as the way we see the world, not through visual sight but through our perceptions, understanding, and interpreting.” – Stephen Covey
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