Many coaches have an excellent knowledge base in their special skill. And still it is sometimes hard for them to get the knowledge “implemented” in the heads of their customers or students.
There are days when a coach would wish he could only give the students a “chip” or programme right in the brain to bring [...]
Many coaches have an excellent knowledge base in their special skill. And still it is sometimes hard for them to get the knowledge “implemented” in the heads of their customers or students.
There are days when a coach would wish he could only give the students a “chip” or programme right in the brain to bring them from “Zero to Hero” like we saw it happening to Keanu Reeves in the famous movie “Matrix”.
I have stated before that it is not possible to become a hero overnight as your brain needs time to store that information.
So as a coach the very first goal to have is obviously to get the main message you want them to learn in that special session delivered for sure.
On many occasions I notice coaches want to give the best to their students and therefore “overdeliver”. This is a nice attitude – but on the other hand watching myself in that situation as student I feel overwhelmed and my brain is still busy making new connections with the basics just heardt. After the session I feel paralysed and frustrated.
So there is no way I can implement the details of a new task in the same session I learn the basics in. Therefore in my mind I feel overwhelmed, doubting if I ever can make it.
So after all I think it is better not to give them the 365 best tipps to get some tecnical stuff done, but only the top 3-5 arguments or tipps you really want them to know after the session.
The probability that the students gonna “get these” is just much higher. As coach you will then exactly know where the status quo of the learners is and not have the illusion that they know all my your 356 tactics to that theme, when they started just out. There is no from Zero to Hero overnight.
So by only delivering your 3-5 most important things you really want them to know, you can be pretty sure almost everybody has that knowledge afterwards. You can then start on a much better solid base of all your students in the next session.
Also knowing that the attention period of students is best in a period of 20-50 minutes it would be a good idea, too, to limit your sessions to that length and have two or three coaching sessions a week instead of one long one.
Also it is scientifically proven that the attention and learning skill is allways best at the beginning at the end of a learning session. The more sessions you make the more advantage you can take out of that effect.
Telling people exactly how to do something doesn`t mean they can apply that afterwards as the learning curve for knowledge and practical skills is totally different.
So less is more in many coaching sessions as we give the brain the time it needs. Overlearning at that stage is simply unproductive.
2 your learning success,
Dirk
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