It’s not change if it doesn’t happen

It’s tempting to think that the reason coaches are reluctant to adopt an “open book” approach to their coaching philosophy is that it’s the hard part.

Perhaps it’s a lack of reflective practice.

Or a lack of perceived value around going upstream to ask the big questions, like: What is your coaching for?

But what if that was the simple part, and the hard part was change?

Ask a coach about what they find frustrating, and I’m sure most will tell you it’s watching their students repeat the same mistake. Change is hard, and learning is not risk-free, which is why we need to design for it.