Give Feedback
Read an article that challenges your consulting method, summarize its strongest point in one sentence.
Pause and ask: “What’s another lens here?” when evaluating a client’s challenge.
Change one coaching habit today, alter the order, pace, or tool you normally use.
Read from a field outside coaching, note one idea to apply in your work.
Challenge a default choice in your routine, pick the opposite to stretch flexibility.
Use the phrase: “That’s interesting, tell me more” when a client challenges you.
Journal about a time rigid thinking limited client progress, what might openness have created instead?
Reflect on how you respond to new client demands, do you resist, explore, or experiment?
Describe a time you adapted to a client surprise, what mindset shift helped?
Write about a belief you outgrew in coaching, what helped you finally shift it?
List three recent client challenges, did you explore multiple angles or stick with one?
Explore curiosity in your consulting, when do you ask “what if,” and when do you shut down?
Share a new framework that challenges client norms, invite dialogue, not agreement.
Take a client’s perspective in prep, switch roles and adjust your approach accordingly.
Take on an intellectually stretching task this week, reflect on insights gained.
Explain a concept you know deeply in beginner terms, test your adaptability.
Use “yes, and” in a disagreement, build constructively while holding your view.
Invite a client to challenge your thinking, respond with curiosity.
Ask a peer to flag when you appear rigid in thinking, what behaviors signal it to them?
Share a recent perspective shift in your practice, ask how a colleague has reframed lately.
Ask for feedback on your openness in brainstorming, do you expand or limit ideas?
Ask someone outside your circle how they approach change, compare strategies.
Share how you processed a complex client choice, ask where you could have been more open.
Trade insights on blind spots, exchange one area you each overlook and discuss.
Reframe “That’s not my method” as “What if I try it once to learn and adapt with clients?”
Instead of “That won’t work,” ask: “Under what conditions could it work for this client?”
Recast uncertainty as optionality, more paths, not more problems.
When stuck, ask: “If the opposite were true, what would it look like?”, test that lens.
See disagreements as data, what valid points could the other view hold?
See mistakes as data points, adjust the hypothesis and test again.
Notice when you dismiss a new approach, what bias or fear drives that reaction in you?
Track your reaction when challenged in front of clients, do you lean curious or defensive first?
Observe your first instinct to client surprises, do you freeze, pivot, or adapt quickly?
Watch how peers adapt in fast change, what mental habits support their shift?
Observe meetings where creativity thrives, what mindsets stand out in the room?
Track your words in uncertainty, do you ask “what if,” or say “not possible”?
