Traffic lights and coaching
Have you ever jumped the lights at a junction? Of course not, but if you’ve driven through an amber and it just turned red, I bet you knew you were doing something naughty and possibly wrong. Especially if the lights were really red even though you swore they were amber. In the same way, when coaching, we don’t drive through the red light, we only move forward on the green and move cautiously through amber. I’m referring to the body language of your coachee and their imaginary traffic lights above…
