As ‘helpers’, professional and otherwise, we are instilled with the opposite message. We are told that real expertise lies in listening only long enough to be able to predict what the client is thinking and will say next and in pre-empting that (saving time, making progress) with our questions or comments. Some coaches-in-training have even been ‘graded down’ for ‘listening too much, waiting too long to come in and really “coach.”’
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