Claire writes: “The joy of demonstrating coaching is that when the work is done, the thinker stays in the room.  A couple of weeks ago, she kept drawing and thinking for over 30 minutes after the 15 minute conversation was done.

If the purpose of a really effective conversation is to support someone else to think, it’s useful to remember that it’s not about me and what I do and that much of the value will come once we have finished.  So it’s useful to encourage people not to book another conversation immediately after they’ve been thinking!”