Intuition in coaching
Posted on November 17, 2019 by Catherine Li-Yunxia, One of Thousands of Executive Coaches on Noomii.
Intuition in Coaching
The client has some business goal to achieve, which is where we got stuck from moving forward.
In today’s session while he was drawing a roadmap of the whole plan on the white board, I got curious on one of the steps and queried how he would bridge two parts together. He was thinking for a while and had no answer. But then I noticed he had a funny facial expression and became intrigued.
I asked him what that facial expression was about, he said he didn’t have facial expression. I said yes you did, then showed him that expression he had on my face.
He was a little surprised about having that expression but then said nothing, he didn’t know what that was about.
You know as a coach, you sometime have strong intuition so I sensed there could be something significant. I then kept provoking him and asking him:
“You did that facial expression, what is it?”
He was silent for a few seconds, and after reflected on his thought he said:
“I was thinking maybe could try this to bridge over, but don’t think it would work.”
I then asked:
“What makes you think it wouldn’t work?”
He answered:
“Because there’re some constrains”
I asked:
“What are the constrains? What makes you think they’re constrains?”
After kept going for a few more questions, he ended up finding a perfect solution for bridging two stand alone projects.
I didn’t do much about this breakthrough, but just caught the glimpse of his facial expression and got intrigued. And then didn’t let it go because I sensed that the expression could mean something based on intuition.
