Comments on: What do I do now?

By: Rocco Lombardo

Rocco Lombardo — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 23:00:22 +0000

Thanks Andrea, good food for thought that can keep us going as we create something better. Always worth the read, always pointing to what’s next!

By: Marcia Hansen

Marcia Hansen — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:01:10 +0000

Providing space for the client with an open heart, honoring their wisdom and knowledge, and being their champion through acknowledging their greatness and contribution. Appreciation and value are the keys to human endeavor.

By: Gina Hiatt

Gina Hiatt — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 07:13:31 +0000

Great post and I love the list. I would add “ongoing belief that your clients CAN achieve their goals.” Sometimes this is all the client has to hang on to. It can be likened to what we call in psychotherapy the “holding environment.”

Also, and I don’t know how to state this succinctly, “just-in-time” information and advice. Often people know the tricks and tips that I remind them of, but they needed to hear it just at that time for it to make sense and for them to implement it at the right time (I coach grad students and professors on long-term writing project productivity, so there is much discussion of techniques that work). I guess this comes under the heading of skills, but it goes way beyond the client reading about the skills in a book.

By: Kerry Dexter

Kerry Dexter — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:25:38 +0000

Listening. at times, what someone needs most (or first) is to know that they are heard. if this is done well itwill be a foundation for many of the skills/ideas already listed.

By: Lennie Rose

Lennie Rose — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:00:14 +0000

Great topic. Convergence, experimentation, soul searching and returning anew to core values. Then outreaching your clients and associates to incorporate their thinking into your authorship of unwritten tomorrows. Think brain trust, noodle fest and context. We have become the road and the drivers. Individually arriving together at today. And I might add – making it up as we go along – just as the government is making it up as THEY go along. But that’s how we grow – which is miraculous in itself. Seeing it, feeling it, allowing it, reaching up for hands that have climbed higher and out for hands as fellow adventurers – relying on foundations that still serve as a foothold, and stepping beyond them because we must. Oy!

By: Jerri Udelson

Jerri Udelson — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 19:50:15 +0000

I provide a safe space for clients to vent/clear/complain and then to move on and create more successful strategies and action plans for overcoming obstacles. Jerri Udelson, MCC

By: Vicki Roche

Vicki Roche — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:35:38 +0000

Connected & Supportive with clients through tough times. Send them notes–the kind that either would be helpful in their situation, or a supportive note of encouragement.

By: Monika Birkner

Monika Birkner — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 08:58:14 +0000

Hi, Andrea. Thank you for this list. What I would like to add is to develop your own intuition and the trust in it and so make clients more comfortable with their own power of intuition.

By: Katherine Reschke

Katherine Reschke — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 03:28:35 +0000

Empathy, Truth seeking and Perception

By: Leanne Watson

Leanne Watson — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 01:13:47 +0000

Excellent article, concise and to the point.

I think good quality questions are the answer to a lot of dilemma’s in our lives … if we’re asking good quality questions we tend on the whole to get better quality answers.

Love life and live it creatively,
Leanne
http://www.YourSuccessfulMind.com

By: Leslie Stewart

Leslie Stewart — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:56:03 +0000

Creativity, in ideas and solutions
Energy, your own & and what’s co-created
Clarity, your own & facilitating others

By: Andrea J. Lee

Andrea J. Lee — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:08:11 +0000

Hi Anne, It’s so good to know the thoughts are quirky-good versus quirky-odd or even quirky-back-away-slowly, especially since it seems to be the only way my brain knows how to work. Thanks for the encouragement!

Dee, it certainly is a LOT about how open we can be, now more than ever, and that is worth celebrating. Thanks for the addition.

By: Anne Nayer

Anne Nayer — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:12:15 +0000

Andrea – I always enjoy (lap up) your thought stream. You are so right on in a unique, quirky, eminently practical yet poetic way. You are a great example of asking questions and framing the tried and true from an angle that maybe I haven’t looked from before and the landscape is just fine and I see things that I didn’t notice or hadn’t thought to describe. Thank you.

By: Dawn McIntyre

Dawn McIntyre — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:02:47 +0000

I would add:
1…being authentic and transparent as a consultant and coach is very liberating to the client and garners a tremendous amount of respect and trust.

Blessings,
Dawn