Balancing Action and Learning

Coaching (and life) involves both action and learning. People who overindex to action are missing the opportunity to act from a place of deeper insight and reflection about themselves and the people around them, which is necessary for transformation. People who overindex to learning are also missing the opportunity for transformation, which happens through the medium of action.

Coaching skills that facilitate learning:

• Powerful questions

• Visioning

• Working with values

• Working with the Inner Critic

• Naming it

Coaching skills that facilitate action:

• Goal setting

• Creating accountability

• Making requests

• Challenging

Coaching application: In your coaching, do you tend to prioritize action or learning? What’s possible for your clients if you prioritize the one that has received less attention?

Life application: In your life, do you tend to prioritize action or learning? What’s possible for you if you prioritize the one that has received less attention?

Relevant Upbuild content:

• [Podcast] Our Complicated Relationship with Accountability (Apple / Spotify)

• [Article] This Is Your Damn Life