Hal ElrodCreator of The Miracle Morning, Personal & Professional Success Coach

The Secret To Being a Great Coach

19 Feb 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief interview excerpt, the host asks the coach to define coaching. The coach explains that coaching is a powerful process for bringing out the best in people, helping them feel seen, heard, and encouraged. Central to effective coaching is the ability to stay curious a little longer and to resist the urge to jump straight to giving advice. The coach warns that many people are "advice‑giving maniacs" and that premature advice does not benefit either the giver or the receiver. The overall message encourages a mindset of patient curiosity over rapid action in coaching interactions.

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For someone that's listening and going, what is coaching? So how would you define coaching and what it does for people?
For me, coaching is this powerful way of bringing out the best in somebody, helping them feel seen and heard and encouraged. And so for me, it is a really core behavior. At the heart of what coaching is or being more coach like is can you stay curious a little bit longer and can you rush to action and advice giving a little bit more slowly? I'm not trying to turn anybody here who's not a coach into a coach. Yeah. But I would love you to stay curious a little bit longer, because most of us are advice giving maniacs, and it doesn't do us any good favors, and it doesn't do the other person you're trying to help any favors. Often as well.