When the Skilled Coach Meets A Performance Gap

What if procrastination isn't really about being lazy? Whatif all that planning, researching, revising, and preparing is actually protecting you from something? After all, nobody can criticize the book you never publish, the course you never launch, or the idea you never share. Pretty clever little protection system we've created for ourselves, isn't it? In today's episode, Michelle explores what happens when theperformance gap meets the Skillful Coach. Instead of focusing only on the unfinished goal, this coach begins noticing patterns across conversations. Perhaps the closer someone gets to sharing their work with the world, the morereasons they find to keep improving it. The goal isn't to label the person as a perfectionist or accuse them of sabotaging themselves. It's to help them recognize what their behavior might be protecting. Because when we understandthe purpose a behavior serves, we begin to discover new choices. Questions or comments? I'd love to hear from you! [email protected] Want to move beyond good questions into truly skillfulcoaching? Join our January Coaching Academy! CA.GrowBy1.com Reflection Questions What recurring patterns might I notice across a coachee’sdifferent goals and conversations? How can I share an observation about a pattern while leavingroom for the coachee to disagree or discover their own meaning? What might perfectionism, overplanning, or constantpreparation be protecting for this coachee? How do I decide whether a challenging question isappropriate for the relationship and the moment? Where in my own life might improving my work be keeping me from releasing it, and how could that awareness affect my coaching?