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Should Coaching Require Permission?
Most coaching facebook groups say “No coaching without permission”, but I have another way of playing…
Why I’m a yes to coaching.
In a lot of coaching groups that I’m a part of the agreement is that there’s no coaching without permission. And while I get the value and appropriateness of that agreement I don’t actually think it’s the most powerful way to play. In the groups I create and lead we have another way of playing called Coaching is always on, and here’s why I think it’s a better way to be in the work, creates more powerful containers, and helps people learn how to be leaders.
1) Trust is the default -
Very often when I ask people about why they don’t want to let someone coach them without permission and they’ll talk about how they haven’t established trust with people and I get that.
In my normal life trust needs to be built and grown in order for relationships to develop, but this shifts inside intentional containers. If the container is created in the right way I believe we can turn trust into a default.
This is especially true inside a leadership container because as a leader I need to learn to generate and create trust even in situations where trust may not normally exist.
