Your coaching client is resistant to change. How do you maintain trust and rapport with them?

It's vital to frame resistance not as a hostile attempt to prevent or even fight change but as the urge to preserve something existing. This helps to understand what positive aspects your client wants to keep. Often, coachees are not aware of this "hidden goal" themselves. Uncovering those hidden goals is crucial in identifying new ways to reach the same objective in a changed environment. By adopting this approach, you don't confront resistance with the pressure to change. Instead, as a coach, you play a crucial role in enabling your clients to identify new, effective ways to achieve their goals. This empowerment enhances their ability to adapt to change.

Accueillir ce qui se passe pour notre client est la base du coaching. Y résister ne ferait qu’augmenter la résistance et ne permettrait pas de créer une réelle alliance.

Reflect and Adjust Reflect Together: Regularly reflect on what’s working and what isn’t. This can help adjust strategies and approaches to better meet their needs. Adapt Strategies: Be flexible and willing to adjust your approach based on their feedback and progress. This shows responsiveness and a commitment to finding effective solutions.

Important indeed to understand where the fear is coming from, explore this fear with the client from different angles. I like the NLP approach to explore this, as one of the base principle is that anything exist with a positive intention : so this fear is here for a reason ... what does it try to do for the client? Protecting them, Helping them, etc ... This is important to acknowledge, thank the fear and let it go or reduce it to an actionable level

When my coaching client is resistant to change, I maintain trust and rapport by first understanding their fears and concerns. I listen empathetically and validate their feelings, creating a safe space for open dialogue. By gradually introducing small, manageable changes and highlighting their benefits, I help them build confidence and trust in the process.

To create trust and rapport with a coaching client resistant to change, it's important to emphasize the positive steps they have already taken. Gauge their confidence levels and desire for change, ensuring it is high enough. Focus on relationship building and act as their cheer squad, providing support and encouragement. Collaboratively set small incremental steps towards their goal. Remember that if they sought coaching, there must be something they want to change. It's the coach's role to help them uncover this desire and understand that change is not always easy, but with guidance and commitment, it is possible to achieve their goals.

Mettre en place les meilleures stratégies pour permettre au client de réfléchir et de comprendre ses freins et ses peurs ou bien ses difficultés est la meilleure manière de lui permettre d’avancer à sa fa?on et à son rythme.

When coaching a client resistant to change, maintaining trust and rapport is crucial. Patience becomes your greatest ally in this journey. By staying patient, you create a safe and supportive space where the client feels heard and understood, without the pressure to change immediately. This approach allows the client to explore their fears and resistance at their own pace. Through consistent, empathetic engagement, you demonstrate unwavering support, reinforcing the trust essential for any transformative process. Patience not only nurtures the coaching relationship but also paves the way for genuine, lasting change.

Coaching is about listening and allowing others to go at their pace, be authentic and genuine and patient, different people require different amounts of time and processing to establish trust.

Revenir à l’objectif et le redéfinir. Peut être le frein vient-il d’une approche erronée de l’objectif initial, ou en lien avec une évolution. Permettre à mon client de prendre conscience de ce qui se passe pour lui ou pour elle afin de permettre d’être en face de sa réalité du moment .