Are You Coachable?

Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth® · Mar 2, 2023 · 9m

You can’t help people who don’t want to be helped. That includes those who just want to be validated without making changes. That includes those who say, “Here’s how to coach me.” Coaching is for short-term improvement in skills, behaviors, and mental set (emotions) that are manifest and repeatable. Longer-term help is advising (sounding board) and reactive rather than proactive. Codependency is excessive emotional or psychological reliance on a partner, in either direction. Therapist: I won’t become part of your marriage. Me coaching: I won’t do your job for you or become part of your…