Day 9 – The Coaching Conversation
Today’s Goal: Learn the key elements that create a powerful coaching conversation — and reflect on where you can grow. 💥This will be important for your discovery calls My Coaching Advice: Coaching is more than just asking questions. It’s about creating the right context for transformation. Without context, coaching can feel cold, transactional, or unfocused. Here are the 7 Core Contexts of Coaching you need to master: 1. Acknowledge & Affirm Why? Helps your client feel heard, builds trust, and opens them up. Without it: Sessions feel cold, and clients shut down . 2. Get Comfortable Being Uncomfortable Why? You get to the real issues faster and talk about what matters most. Without it: You stay on the surface and never help your client break through . 3. Be Curious Why? Curiosity leads to powerful, intuitive questions and removes the pressure to “sound smart.” Without it: You risk missing what the client really needs . 4. Hold the Vision Why? Keeps the client focused on what they said they wanted most. Without it: Sessions veer off track, and clients lose momentum . 5. Extremize Why? Asking extreme questions forces deeper thinking about what really matters. Without it: Conversations stay too safe, and transformation is minimal . 6. Get a Recent Vivid Example Why? It makes coaching practical and generates clear, actionable solutions. Without it: Action steps stay vague and results stay weak . 7. Invite Them to Think Bigger Why? Helps clients dream again and get excited about what’s possible. Without it: They settle for less than they’re capable of . Practical Exercise: 📝 Coaching Context Reflection 1. Identify which of these 7 contexts is your natural strength. 2. Choose one you find most challenging and commit to practicing it this week. 3. Decide which of these you’d like someone to do for you (because even coaches need coaching!). Call to Action: Post or share which of these contexts you will focus on strengthening this week. Bonus points if you share a short story or example of how you’ve used one of these with a client, co-worker, or even a friend.