No Clear Definitions
Excerpt from "Performance-Based Coaching"
Sadly, most attempts at coaching fail before they even truly begin. They fail at the point when a coach begins to speak and the teacher attempts to listen. This can actually be the most frustrating aspect of coaching to both parties and detrimental to the process, even though both parties have the best intentions. To better understand why this first attempt at communication regarding a change can quickly sour, we must only consider how difficult it might be to answer this simple question.
What portion of your diet is made up of healthy foods?
That really depends on how we define "healthy". There are so many popular diets today that all use the term "healthy". It is entirely possible for a two people to agree that they both eat healthy food while wildly disagreeing that the other person's diet is healthy at all.
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