Are you ignoring the elephant in the room?

When we start out as coaches, we are often shy to confront our clients and support them in really challenging their thinking. 

 

As coaching supervision will reveal, there are many reasons for this. It might be that you have trouble sitting with other people’s discomfort. Or perhaps you are concerned about losing them as clients. Maybe the topic touches on a raw nerve for you.

 

 

Whatever the reason, as coaches, it is our duty to notice when both our clients and ourselves are shying away from or side-stepping the elephant in the room and draw upon our courage as coaches to step into the discomfort.

 

The first step in this process is always to acknowledge the elephant in the room. You might point it out directly or simply share your sense of there being an elephant in the room, and leave your client to identify it. 

 

However you approach it, once you and your client look at the elephant, then its shape, colour and size become clear and the whole room transforms. 

 

 

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