Coaching World Issue 8: November 2013 | Page 5

Coaching to Your Client’s Learning Style To help our clients achieve new results, coaches must support them in learning and implementing new behaviors that will create those results. It’s just that simple and just that hard. Every client has a learning style; i.e., a preferred way of taking in and making sense of new information. Coaches who understand what is required to focus the attention of each learning style have an enormous advantage in equipping their clients to achieve success. Tapping Into Your Client’s Brain Learning occurs as a result of how we process our experiences and the meaning we make of them. When we learn, our brains move through a cycle of asking and answering four critical questions: why, what, how and if. Reflect on something you learned recently and think about how you moved through exploring these four questions: Jeanine O’NeillBlackwell Jeanine i