The Life Coaching Mistakes IQ Matrix will help you identify the most common mistakes that life coaches make while working with their clients. Falling into the trap of making these coaching mistakes can often destroy the coaching dynamics between a life coach and their client. Understanding where and how these coaching mistakes occur will be of particular value for new coaches. However, even experienced coaches make these coaching mistakes and will, therefore, find this visual reference guide beneficial.
Many of these mistakes are quite obvious and can be easily avoided. Other mistakes are more subtle in nature. Their impact on the process of life coaching, of course, cannot be underestimated. Use this map as a handy reference poster to help you avoid making these errors in your coaching business.
The mind map specifically organizes the coaching mistakes into several categories including perceptual mistakes, personal communication mistakes, personal approach mistakes, and mistakes related to setting client tasks. These mistakes are, of course, very easy to address. However, we first need to become aware that we are making them.
Here is a quick breakdown of each branch of the Life Coaching Mistakes mind map.
- Personal Perception Mistakes: The first branch of this map identifies several common mistakes life coaches make when it comes to their perceptions of the client’s life and circumstances. Some of these mistakes include diagnosing psychological conditions, thinking too narrowly, making assumptions, and misunderstanding a client’s needs.
- Personal Communication Mistakes: The second branch of this map breaks down common communication errors that life coaches make while conversing with their clients. Some of these mistakes include not listening intently, not asking insightful questions, correcting a client’s language, assuming your truths are your client’s truths, avoiding touchy subjects, being overly optimistic, and more.
- Personal Approach Mistakes: The third branch of this map explores several typical mistakes a life coach makes while working with their clients. Some of these mistakes include getting sidetracked, investing your emotions into your client, coaching each client the same way, taking sides on issues, not laying down ground rules for the coaching session, and more.
- Client Task Mistakes: The final branch of this map walks you through common mistakes that life coaches make when setting tasks for their clients. Some of these mistakes include setting complicated tasks, protecting the client from making mistakes, not instructing the client thoroughly enough, forcing the client to make changes, avoiding a client’s money problems, and more.
This map provides a roadmap and framework for avoiding typical life coaching mistakes that life coaches make when working with their clients. Referencing it regularly and committing it to memory will help you to embed these concepts and ideas into your subconscious mind.
A mind map, of course, does this beautifully because it mirrors the synaptic connections made in your brain as you try to establish new habits of thought and behavior. It brings together key concepts and ideas that help your brain to fully integrate and process this information. The brain, subsequently, rewires itself as it attempts to establish new habits of mind. It’s an ideal tool for creating lasting change and transformation.
Stick with these principles, memorize and incorporate them into your work as a life coach, and you will progressively gain a better understanding of yourself and your client’s needs. This will help you become a more competent, confident, and professional life coach.
When you purchase the Life Coaching Mistakes IQ Matrix you will receive:
- A PDF copy of the IQ Matrix, which you can use for printing in high resolution.
- A JPG image file of the IQ Matrix, which is ideal for viewing on tablets and mobile devices.
- A Desktop Background version of the map you can use for reference on your computer.
- A MindManager file for those who wish to edit the content of the IQ Matrix.
- A printable PDF summary of this IQ Matrix to help you better understand each concept.
Additional visual resources and variations of this IQ Matrix might be added to your account page at no extra cost in the future.
