Coaching case study: The language barrier
Posted by Trevor Edwards in Coaching on Wed, 12/14/2011 - 09:30
- There is more to communication than just words.
Are you speaking the right language with your coachees? Unlimited Potential's Trevor Edwards tells the community a story.
All too often something that is perfectly clear to us, individually, seems to be totally incomprehensible to someone else; after all we both speak the same language - so why should it be difficult to understand?
Just because we are conversing in English, it doesn't necessarily mean we all understand, interpret or process things in the same way. 'Visual' people will use language associated with seeing, 'auditory' people will respond to language associated with hearing and 'kinaesthetic' people will respond to language associated with feelings. If we use the wrong language to communicate with someone else, what seems straightforward to us can be very difficult for them.
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