Masterclass: Advanced Coaching and Mentorship Skills

You have done the introductory coaching training and it works, until it does not. The mentee who agrees with everything and changes nothing, the one who cannot see a way forward, the conversation that circles the same block.

This is the next level. Motivational Interviewing, the limiting assumptions that hold people still, and Nancy Kline’s work on listening with fascination.

• Use Motivational Interviewing with a mentee who says they want to change and then keeps not changing.
• Surface the limiting assumption underneath a stuck mentee, and test with them whether they actually believe it is true.
• Work with a block directly rather than around it, so the conversation moves instead of circling the same ground.
• Listen with the fascination Nancy Kline describes, so your attention itself becomes what generates your mentee’s thinking.
• Take an interaction that went nowhere with a mentee into a small trusted group, and leave with a different approach for next time.