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Why Your Coaching Clients Aren't Following Through EP 254
Episode 25427th September 2024 • The Demartini Show • Dr John Demartini
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Are your coaching clients not following through on your advice? Dr Demartini unpacks how your communication skills can transform your coaching results.

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Remember, people are trying to live

and fulfill their highest values.

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If you help them,

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the way you speak and communicate with

them in a way where they're going to get

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their highest values met, they'll

take on what you ask them to do.

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If you're a coach or a consultant and

you're working with clients and you find

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that sometimes compliance,

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or their application of what

you're recommending is low,

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I'd like to share with you some

ideas on how to enhance it.

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How to enhance the probability that

your coaching clients are doing

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what you say.

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I learned something about 40 years ago

when I was doing consulting and speaking

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for consulting companies

and taking on clients,

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health professionals

predominantly in those days,

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and I noticed that I would see at

a conference, a management group,

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consulting group, certain clients there,

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and I noticed that some would really

take off and do extraordinary with the

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insights that they were gaining from

the coaching they were getting and the

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management they were getting.

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And then I noticed that other people

were floundering and I thought, Hmm?

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And I would sometimes see sort of an

autocratic behavior from the coach or the

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consultant,

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kind of condemning or judging

the person for not applying it.

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You're not disciplined, you're not

doing what I've said, da da da.

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And I noticed that and I thought,

that's interesting, is it,

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are they not disciplined?

Are they not this?

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Or is there some sort of an

internal conflict going on

inside their psyche about

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taking those actions? And

I was puzzled by that.

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And then I would see them leave that

consulting company or management company,

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and then I would see them in

another one that I was speaking at.

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And now suddenly the same client

is flourishing and booming

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under this new consultant

and new management company.

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And I would chat with them and

I would say, what's, you know,

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you were with this other company and you

didn't take off and now you're taking

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off, what do you think the difference

is? And we narrowed it down.

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And I found out, and I already

knew some of it, I had suspicion,

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but I really narrowed

it down by interacting.

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They would say things like,

I just couldn't do what

they were asking me to do,

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it just wasn't me.

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And this was a real interesting

observation. It wasn't me.

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Not everything they asked

was a no, I couldn't do it,

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but parts of it.

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And so that would hold them back and

limit their package that they were

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presenting. So I basically found

out that it was value driven.

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And I realized that as long as somebody

asks you to do something, a coach,

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consultant asks you to do something,

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that inside your head you perceive

more drawbacks than benefits,

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more disadvantages than advantages,

and goes against what you value, or,

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you think that the repercussions of

doing it will lead you to go against

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something you value,

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you'll automatically put up a barrier

and stop and hesitate and procrastinate

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and frustrate yourself.

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Because you'll be expecting yourself

because they're your authority,

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because you inject their

values into your life,

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you think 'I should be doing this,

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but I'm not doing it.' Anytime you

hear yourself, I should, I ought to,

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I'm supposed to, I got to, I

have to, I must, need to do it,

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it's an injected value

from some authority,

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but it may not match your own top values,

and so you have internal conflicts,

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you resist. And you procrastinate,

hesitate and frustrate.

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So I found out that the individuals

that were having difficulty,

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it was going against their values.

So let me give you an example.

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I had a gentleman that said

you know, no matter what I do,

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I can't seem to get past this certain

amount in my business, my practice.

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And I said, okay,

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so what are you afraid is going to

happen if you did all of a sudden just

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doubled it? You know, just took off,

what are you afraid is going to do it?

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And he said,

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and he had in his brain an association

with another friend of his that

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doubled his practice and really grew

his practice and ended up in a divorce.

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Because the amount of effort it took to

grow the practice made it where all of a

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sudden there was clash

with a relationship.

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Now this gentleman had a higher value

on relationship and family than the

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individual that had higher

value on business that was

able to forsake the family

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for the business, and divorce. But

he had a higher value on family.

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And because of that,

he was not going to do,

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because of the associations

he made with the other client,

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the other guy that went through a divorce

when he doubled his business, he says,

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I can't take that risk.

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So he is hesitating because in his mind

he's got more drawbacks than benefits.

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So that's the reason why. And

that's why I basically have to,

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and when I'm working with people,

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I have to go through there and clear

out that baggage that's sitting there.

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Because sometimes the advice

you give them is solid advice,

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but in their mind

they've got associations,

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previous associations that are

challenging. So the question is,

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unless we either dissolve those previous

experiences and associations or revamp

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those and reassociate them,

they're going to hesitate.

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So I had a gentleman that basically

was afraid to do that and I said,

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well how could it help your marriage

if you were to double your business?

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He says, well, if I doubled

my business, my wife would,

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she's always bitching because I'm not

home enough, I'm already too busy,

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I'm already having too many

hours, if I was to double it,

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in his mind he thought if he doubled it,

it's going to take twice as much work.

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Not necessarily so.

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You could delegate more and actually have

less time in the office and have twice

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as many patients. But he wasn't thinking

of that, in his mind he just thought,

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if I double my business, I won't be

home, I'll take more effort there,

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my wife will start thing, I'll end

up in a divorce, I don't want that,

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It's not worth it, I won't do it.

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Yet he's paying money for a

consultant to give him advice.

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And the advice he's giving

him is solid advice.

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But he can't do it because

he's got that wound.

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He's got that wound watching his buddy

going through a divorce and what he went

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through and all the frustrations he went

through because he grew his practice.

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So in his mind, if I ask him,

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how specifically is growing

your practice and doubling it,

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how's he going to help your family and

relationship? And he couldn't see it.

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If he couldn't see it, he is not going

to do it. And I said, so how could it?

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And we sat down and we revamped and kind

of a Skinner operate conditioning on

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there, I did what I call

the Demartini Method,

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which is a series of questions to

help you see new associations with

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perceptions. And I basically helped

him see where the upsides were.

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Well, if he doubled his business,

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he would end up having all of a

sudden more efficient time usage.

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He would end up hiring more

people to delegate more things.

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In fact that would help him

double his business. In fact,

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we came up with strategies on how to

delegate so he would actually have freer

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time and how to prioritize what he was

doing so he would have more time to be

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with his family.

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We also then prioritized how building

that business is going to help the kids,

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because one of the highest values

on the wife's was the kids,

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how will it help the kids?

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And how is spending time with the

kids helping the business growing?

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And we made some links and anytime

two values are closer together on the

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hierarchy of values,

they enhance each other.

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Anytime they don't see the

relationship, they hinder each other.

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So I asked him that question and made

him come up with ways of doing it.

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And the moment he saw how

he could get what he wanted,

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building his business and

still keep his marriage,

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he got a tear in the eye and his

business flourished, took off,

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because he was no longer resistant to it.

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So anytime you're working with a

client, they have a hierarchy of values.

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If you don't know what the hierarchy

of values is, it's crucial to know,

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because that's going to tell them whether

they're going to take action or not on

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what you're going to recommend.

On my website, drdemartini.com,

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there's a free Value Determination

process. You're welcome to use it.

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It takes 30 minutes. You can have

the client go through that process.

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You can go through it with them.

And in the process of doing it,

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you could make sure that you really know

what their values are so when you're

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communicating with them, you're talking

in terms of their values. Remember,

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people are trying to live and

fulfill their highest values.

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If you help them in the way you put,

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the way you speak and communicate with

them in a way where they're going to get

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their highest values met, they'll take

on what you ask them to do. If you can't,

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they're going to resist it,

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because they're going to see it

interfering with what they value most.

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So you need to know what the values are.

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Then you need to practice the art

of how is their values not wrong,

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how is their values serve you? Because

if you don't see how it serves you,

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you'll talk down to them and

try to project your values

onto them and try to get

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them to live in your values

instead of honor theirs.

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It's when you communicate what you

value in terms of what they value,

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that you get the greatest compliance,

the greatest buy-in, the greatest action.

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In other words, I used to have patients

come into my office and they would say,

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well you know,

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I've had this shoulder

pain for four months,

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but you're just now coming in.

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Well there were four months you were in

pain but you didn't come in so it wasn't

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the pain that brought you

there. So I used to ask them,

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what specific high priority thing in

your life is this pain now starting to

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interfere with that's making you

decide to come in? And they said, well,

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the other day I was driving on the freeway

and I couldn't turn my neck and the

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shoulder was sore and

everything else I couldn't look,

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and I almost got rammed by

a a 24 wheeling truck and

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almost got killed.

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And I realized I better do something

about it because I can't turn my neck

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because my shoulder and neck is all tight.

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So they didn't come in

because of the pain,

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they came in because they

almost killed themselves.

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I had a woman come in and says,

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the reason I did it is because I dropped

my child because my shoulder was sore.

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So there's reasons why people do what

they do and sometimes what you assume it

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is and you project onto them what it

is, it's not really what's driving them.

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So finding out the dominant buying

motive, finding out the dominant value,

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finding out what's really

driving them is important.

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If you want to get compliance. Because

if you talk and communicate with that.

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I used to tell my clients that were into

golfing, I said, if we do what we do,

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you'll be able to be get that score

back down and you'll be able to get that

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golfing back on track. If I tell them

about their pain, they didn't listen,

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but if I talked about golf, they did.

So just know that if you communicate,

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care enough about the individual to

find out what they value most and care

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enough to communicate effectively in

what you want them to do in terms of what

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their values are, highest values,

highest values. If you do that,

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your compliance will go up.

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That's why I teach people

the Breakthrough Experience,

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because I teach them about values, I

teach them how to communicate in values,

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how to prioritize values, how

to discern values in people,

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how to effectively communicate what

you want in terms of their values.

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Because if they don't see how

they're going to win out of it,

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they're going to feel

manipulated and controlled.

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If they feel how they're

going to win out of it,

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they're going to feel cared

and loved. And it's the way.

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And that's really what you want.

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You want people to feel cared

for and loved and appreciated.

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And you do if you respect

them in their value system.

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That's why I teach the

Breakthrough Experience,

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because in the Breakthrough Experience

I teach them how to do that and I also

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teach them how to dissolve all the

emotional baggage that's causing those

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changes.

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See the wound that he saw that his

friend go through with a divorce and the

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wounds that he is gotten because of

his wife being upset because he is home

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late, those wounds are

making those decisions.

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And I have a method called the Demartini

method to dissolve those wounds so you

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have a clear, balanced perspective.

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And then you can communicate more

effectively with them and not have those

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unconscious wounds,

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those impulses and instincts that set you

off before you can even think clearly.

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And neutralize them.

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That way you can more

effectively communicate with

your clients and they'll get

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more compliance. People

want a value fulfilled.

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And by the way, when you

ask people what they value,

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I assure you I've been

doing it for 46 years, and

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the reason I developed the method

I did on the Value Determination,

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which you can get on my

website, drdemartini.com,

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is because people will tell you what

they think is valuable and it's not.

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I ask people how many want to

be financially independent?

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Everybody puts their hand up.

But less than 1% actually do it.

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So what they say they want and what they

actually want are two different things.

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So don't go by what they just say,

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go by what their life

demonstrates is important.

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That's why if you go on my website and

do the Value Determination process,

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it'll be eye-opener. If you're

a coach, this'll be gold to you,

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because you'll learn about what they are

really committed to, not what they say.

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Because what they say and what they

commit to and what their life is

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demonstrating are not always

the same, in fact, rarely are.

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Not initially at least.

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So once you find out what their values

are and once you know how to dissolve the

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emotional baggage, which

is driving those values,

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you have a powerful tool on

helping get more compliance,

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and so they're more likely to do it.

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So instead of sitting there and wondering

why they're not doing what you say,

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you have a solution.

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And that solution is caring enough about

another human being to communicate what

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you really value in

terms of what they value,

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what you really know will help them

grow their business or life or health

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and help them get what they want in life.

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But find out what it really is and then

master the art of communicating it.

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That's what I teach in the Breakthrough

Experience and also how to dissolve all

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the emotional baggage, which is driving

those values and confusing people. See,

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if you put people on a pedestal,

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you'll inject their values and

cloud the clarity of your own.

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If you put people in pit, you'll

also cloud your judgment on them.

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And those clouded states make people

say they want something when they really

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don't. And they sometimes have

fears about what they say they want.

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They have fears about

it and undermining it.

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So come to the Breakthrough Experience

where I can show you how to dissolve the

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baggage that they're carrying and also

in your own life because you may be doing

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the same thing. And also how to art,

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the art of communicating what

you value in terms of theirs.

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Your compliance will go up,

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your fulfillment in your coaching business

will go up and you'll realize that

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there's nobody out there worth a label,

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but there is somebody out there worth

serving and that person that you serve is

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most effectively served if you communicate

what you want in terms of what they

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want.

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