🎙️ EP 65 : Making a coaching agreement is strange and difficult. Here’s Why!

“What would be a good outcome of our conversation today?” While this type of question is common in meetings to get an alignment of agendas, it feels less usual when we use it in a ‘normal’ conversation. Yet, it is one of the most essential and hardest things to pull off when we want to coach well: making a strong agreement! In this episode, we will talk about some reasons why new coaches find it so tough to get good at this!

What are 4 misconceptions that often hold people back from making strong and good coaching agreements?
1. “Making agreements will forever feel weird and unnatural”. It won’t. Just get practice!
2. “Making agreements happens before coaching”. No. Agreeing is an essential part of the coaching process.
3. “Making agreements are useful, but not mandatory”. No. A focused agreement is a MUST.
4. “Making agreements forces and imposes something on the client and I should not do that”. Not really. We are enforcing ‘just’ the coaching process, not anything about the client’s content.

In the episode, we talk about why these for statements are misconceptions and we build a strong argument why a good agreement is just an essential part of coaching someone well!

Enjoy.