Sometimes coaches want to first 'figure it out' and then lead the coachee to a solution using questions.
Master coaches embrace ambiguity. They don't need to know the exact path or even the final destination. They take risk, exploring with clients areas that might bear fruit.
Embracing ambiguity makes the coach a mutual learner and fellow-traveler with the coachee.
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Trying to figure it all out before the coaching call was definitely one of my tendencies. I remember reading the client's prep form and feeling panic because I didn't have a clue how to solve this problem. Then I realized that it was actually detrimental to the learning process for the coachee if I sought to come up with the answer by myself, and I have learned to trust God to lead us both in the process of exploring the issue together.
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