How Serious IS Your Client About Their Goals? 5 Quick Tests!

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Especially when our clients have BIG goals in mind, it’s important to help set them up for success by exploring if they really want their goal – and how committed they are. Also, sometimes with big goals, it’s easy to lose our enthusiasm somewhere along the way.

So, whether you have a client just starting out or whether they’ve just lost their way a little, here are 5 quick tests to explore how serious your client REALLY is about their goals! THE SIMPLE COMMITMENT TEST: A great place to start is to be totally obvious and ask, “So, how Read More…

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March 15th, 2013 | Tags: Gaining Commitment, Goal Ecology, Goal Outcomes | Category: Clarifying, Coaching Questions, Coaching Tips, Gaining Commitment, Goal-Setting, Raising Awareness, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

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December 10th, 2012 | Tags: Coaching Questions, Goal-Setting, Powerful Questions | Category: Accountability, Action-setting, Beliefs, Brainstorming, Celebrating, Coaching, Coaching Questions, Coaching Tools & Exercises, Gaining Commitment, Goal-Setting, Questioning, Raising Awareness, Reviewing Progress | 39 comments

Coaching Questions 101: 5 Ways to Identify and Work through Your Clients' Limiting Beliefs

Limiting beliefs are often so much a part of us that we don’t even realise they’re there. In fact, asking a client what their limiting beliefs are could be likened to the metaphor of asking a fish for a glass of water: It’s so much a part of them that they don’t see it.

When our clients are stuck, when they have a goal and are not making progress or when the client is keen, knows what the next step is but avoids or won’t commit to it – it’s often a limiting belief at work. So this is the Read More…

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June 15th, 2012 | Tags: Coaching Questions, Feelings & Emotions, Gremlin, Inner Critic, Limiting Beliefs, Raising Awareness, Rules | Category: Acknowledging, Beliefs, Challenging, Coaching Questions, Coaching Techniques, Coaching Tips, Feelings & Emotions, Gaining Commitment, Raising Awareness | Leave a comment

Goal Ecology - What to Ask When a Client Consistently Fails to Complete their Actions!

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Who hasn’t had a client who SAYS they want to achieve a goal but consistently avoids and, for one reason or another, does not complete their actions? Well it could be down to Goal Ecology.

Our lives are complex – most actions have consequences that ripple out into other areas. And sometimes in the rush to set or achieve goals we forget to step back and look at how our goals fit into the bigger picture of our lives.

Goal Ecology helps clients avoid life’s pitfalls. By helping the client look at the wider implications of a goal, we Read More…

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August 10th, 2011 | Tags: Action Setting, Clarifying, Coaching Questions, Coaching Tips, Gaining Commitment, Goal Ecology, Goal-Setting, NLP, Raising Awareness, Setting Goals | Category: Coaching Questions, Coaching Tips, Gaining Commitment, Goal-Setting, NLP Related, Raising Awareness | 2 comments

There Is No Such Thing As Try

Using the word “try” implies a risk of failure. When a client says “I’ll try”, what they’re really saying is they’re not fully committed to the action in question.

So, the word “try”, like “should”, is one of those words that’s a clear signal to coaches to ask more questions and dig deeper.

Maybe your client really will try. Or maybe they’re too busy, they don’t want to upset someone by saying “no” or perhaps they don’t really care or value the outcome enough. Whatever the reason, as a coach “I’ll try” is a cue to explore where they’re Read More…

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June 29th, 2011 | Tags: Accountability, Action Setting, Challenging Clients, Clarifying, Coaching Questions, Coaching Skills, Coaching Tips, Focusing, Gaining Commitment, Raising Awareness | Category: Accountability, Action-setting, Challenging, Clarifying, Coaching Questions, Coaching Skills, Coaching Tips, Gaining Commitment, Raising Awareness | Leave a comment