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A Fresh Look At Metaview

When a client is stuck, I often use the technique of metaview as a way of creating awareness and helping the client to shift perspectives.

With this technique, you might ask your client to imagine going up to the top of a mountain and look down on their current situation. Then ask the client powerful questions in order to create awareness, such as:

"What do you see from there?"

"How does it look?"

"What's in the way?"

The KEY is to get the client up to the the new location immediately.

The value of this technique is not in the journey of getting to the new location, but the process of what is learned when they can see their situation from the new vantage point.

Don't dwell on the journey (take the express elevator if necessary) or your client will lose focus.

S/he will be too busy enjoying the picnic s/he is taking you on to learn anything new when s/he gets there!

Kind regards,
Anne

How To Keep Your Clients

In these economic times, it is far more efficient (and fulfilling) to keep the clients you have, rather than having to continually go out and find new ones.

How do you do that?

While there are many issues we could discuss here, one of the main ways is quite simple.

Avoid getting conversational with your clients!

When I listen to coaching calls for supervision, I often hear coaches making this common mistake. The session starts out with the question, "how was your week?"

Then 5-10 minutes of the session is used up just to hear what's going on.

The problem with this approach is that the coaching session becomes too conversational.

The coach gets too relaxed, and the clients leave coaching prematurely because they don't feel that it's something they should be paying for.

Clients can have casual conversations (free) with anyone who will listen.

To make your service valuable to the client (and worth paying for), you need to make your coaching calls less conversational.

One way to do this would be to start the session by reviewing the call focus form.

Clients not using the call focus form?

This is another sign that you've become relaxed about the coaching process.

When you keep up your skills as a coach, both you and your clients will benefit.
And you will be well on your way to long lasting, fulfilling relationships!

Kind regards,
Anne

Anne Durand, MCC

Like her favorite travel destination, Anne will go to the ends of the earth for you.