The Answer is the Question

Are you looking for answers?

We often look for answers in the form of information - books, advice, teaching, etc. However, we make a mistake if we confuse information gathering with learning.

The University of California, San Diego did a study of how much information the average American takes in a day. It's 100,500 words or 34 gigabytes of data - a day! That's like filling your computer's hard drive every two days.

But information does not wisdom make.

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Getting 300% More Training Impact

Let's be honest, most training is full of knowledge, ideas, and "good stuff" but not much practice.

Paul wrote, "Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me - put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you" Philippians 4:9.

Too often, my problem is not a lack of knowledge; it is too little living out of that knowledge. Chinese philosopher Han Fei Tzu said it well: “It is not difficult to know a thing; what is difficult is to know how to use what you know.”

This is where Follow-Up Coaching comes in.

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Blinded by Experience

Our experience is an asset as well as a liability. It gives us grids or categories in which to make sense of the world around us. But it also "colors" what we see because we make false assumptions based on previous experience.

There are ways to use your experience to see clearly.

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Questioning Knowledge

Knowledge is overrated.

I used to think that if I knew the right things, I'd be set. After all, knowledge provides answers to solve problems, right?

We live in a knowledge economy where we live off what we know instead of what we physically produce. The Internet has made that information widely available to millions of people, most of whom are hungrier and more clever than myself. Living off of knowledge is getting tougher and tougher.

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New Eyes, Not New Knowledge

In coaching the goal is not new information or knowledge. Here's why: more knowledge from the same perspective will produce the same sort of actions.

Transformation comes by increasing the coachee's perspective - helping him or her to see the same world in new ways, through new eyes.

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