Sean GlazeWorkplace Culture Speaker | Facilitator, Great Results Team Building · Leadership lessons from the locker room that change how your people work together.

WHAT ARE THE FIRST TWO QUESTIONS TO HELP PEOPLE BE MORE COACHABLE

21 Jul 2023 · 1 min

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In this brief dialogue, the speakers emphasize that becoming more coachable starts with two fundamental questions: “Where do I want to be?” and “Where am I now?” They argue that answering these questions requires brutal honesty—looking at one’s numbers and circumstances without excuses or blame. By owning the present situation, a person can map a realistic path toward their desired future. The conversation also stresses the need for a solid, though not perfect, foundation; acknowledging the current state allows for continual refinement and genuine improvement.

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those first two questions, where do I want to be and where am I now, as simple as they are, to be brutally honest with yourself and to look at your numbers without making excuses, to look at your circumstance without pointing your finger somewhere else, and to take ownership of your present situation. Because I can't chart out on a map how I'm going to get somewhere until I'm really honest about where I'm at and where I'm starting.
Yeah, you have to be honest about your foundation. You know, or you're just building off of like sand. Yeah, is the way I always look at it. It has to be solid, um, not perfect, you know, you can keep refining it, but you really have to be honest with yourself, and you can only improve something that you're willing to acknowledge.