Telling vs Teaching: Strategic Questions to Clients Part One

This month we are talking about asking our clients strategic questions to deepen their understanding. I am so excited to get into the nitty gritty this month, but today I need to lay the foundation of Telling vs Teaching.

 

Before diving in, I want you to understand that I am NOT about that shame game. This information and the work that I do is NOT for clients to look at their coaches and say “you did xyz” wrong when it came to this. 

 

I truly believe that a majority of people are out here doing their best, and I encourage everyone to take rapid responsibility for THEMSELVES. 

 

Telling- “Here is what to do.”

Teaching- “Here is what this is, here is why it is important, and here is HOW to do it.”

 

When we are telling, it leads to :

1. Clients mimicking coaches and other people.
2. Clients failing after they leave us.
3. Clients being SO reliant on their coach to succeed.
4. Codependency in coaching relationships.
5. A client Coming out with the same offer you come out with within days of each other.
6. Starting and growing businesses they aren't qualified to grow.

Tune in to hear Taylor speak on this more, and give some questions to ask yourself to see if your clients could use more support in this area! 

 

A huge part of educating is going to be asking SMART questions that encourage our clients to think, and that is what this series will be talking about! Join us next week as we talk about Bloom’s Taxonomy and how we can use it to further client understanding.

 

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