Top Five Mistakes Coaches Make in Their Sessions, Series #3

We know as coaches, we aren't suppose to tell a client what to do.  We are suppose to guide our clients to their own wisdom. We are suppose to shepherd them to their own questions and answers.  A consultant gives advice.  A coach shouldn't.  

And that's right most of the time.  However, sometimes coaches will let a client be lost too long.  They will ask all the right questions and the client stays lost, so they start over at the beginning of the list of questions again or make up new ones, still not getting a client to any clarity.  Sometimes clients can't find their own answers and all the right questions in the world won't get them there.  That is frustrating for the coach and it's mind numbing for the client.  

Sometimes coaches are so hesitant to give advice that they let clients stay adrift way too long and it often makes a client feel like they are failing.  Today we are going to talk about strategies for telling it like it is rather than letting a client drift and when to do it.