CHAPTER 7
DEEPENING COACHING SKILLS: WORKING WITH INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCE
Up to now, we have been presuming that coaching is ‘one size fits all’ – that the same approach works for everyone. But it doesn’t.
As is apparent to anyone who looks up from their phone while travelling on the London Underground, human beings vary rather considerably. Sophisticated coaching must flex to adapt.
‘Individual difference’ is what the scientists call it, as they are dispassionately interested in objective assessment of individual variation. But in coaching, we’re not using psychometrics, or any other tool, for the sake of it: we’re usually doing it for a very particular and subjective purpose, namely to raise self-awareness.
Self-awareness is important in coaching ...
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