5 Coaching Questions To Use When Clients Feel Stuck
Have you ever found yourself in a coaching session with a client and, no matter what you ask or how you attempt to guide the conversation, the only question your coaching client comes back with is “I don’t know…”?
Or you have a coaching client who’s set goals, designed action and, yet, week after week, is making zero progress?
And, as this person’s coach, you long to find a way to help your client get beyond the stuckness… but nothing you’re trying works.
What, as a coach, do you do?
You ask the questions that will do 3 things at once:
1. Create psychological safety.
When a client feels stuck, they’re in a space of feeling unsafe. Whether they feel unsafe because of life, another person or themselves, the being stuck is equivalent to the ‘freeze’ response in the flight-fright-freeze-fawn response. Rather than trying to attack the ‘freeze’ response head on, it’s important to create an environment for your client where the client feels safe to be where they are (stuck), safe to explore why they’re in this space, and safe enough to move out of feeling stuck in their own time and way.
