Paige Finn DohertyFounding Partner, Behind Genius · Founding Partner at Behind Genius Ventures

what is the actual tangible next step?

19 Jan 2024 · 1 min

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In this brief coaching dialogue, Speaker A stresses that discussion alone rarely leads to progress and urges the identification of concrete, tangible next steps. They propose practical actions such as having or rehearsing a conversation, role‑playing, or drafting a decision‑making framework, followed by a commitment to act and reconvene later to review results. Speaker B reflects on the value of digging deeper into the root cause of a problem, questioning whether the stated issue is the true underlying challenge. The exchange highlights a coaching philosophy that moves from insight to immediate, measurable action and encourages deeper exploration of problems before deciding on the next move.

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Like most of the time, and this is true not just about coaching, but about decisions in general, there's only so much good that talking about a thing will actually do. We need to figure out what is the actual tangible next step. Do you need to go have a conversation? Can we practice that conversation? Can we roleplay that conversation? Do you need to figure out how you're going to make a decision? Can we write down a framework together? What is the actual thing that you need to go do? And then if it warrants, let's end the coaching call and pick up later in the week when you've gone and done the thing. I really want to push people to go and take action.
Yeah, I feel like the thing that was most interesting was watching someone be like, this is my problem, and you'd be like, well, let's go deeper on that. Is it really that or is it this?