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.
Speaker:If you help them,
Speaker:the way you speak and communicate with
them in a way where they're going to get
Speaker:their highest values met, they'll
take on what you ask them to do.
Speaker:If you're a coach or a consultant and
you're working with clients and you find
Speaker:that sometimes compliance,
Speaker:or their application of what
you're recommending is low,
Speaker:I'd like to share with you some
ideas on how to enhance it.
Speaker:How to enhance the probability that
your coaching clients are doing
Speaker:what you say.
Speaker:I learned something about 40 years ago
when I was doing consulting and speaking
Speaker:for consulting companies
and taking on clients,
Speaker:health professionals
predominantly in those days,
Speaker:and I noticed that I would see at
a conference, a management group,
Speaker:consulting group, certain clients there,
Speaker:and I noticed that some would really
take off and do extraordinary with the
Speaker:insights that they were gaining from
the coaching they were getting and the
Speaker:management they were getting.
Speaker:And then I noticed that other people
were floundering and I thought, Hmm?
Speaker:And I would sometimes see sort of an
autocratic behavior from the coach or the
Speaker:consultant,
Speaker:kind of condemning or judging
the person for not applying it.
Speaker:You're not disciplined, you're not
doing what I've said, da da da.
Speaker:And I noticed that and I thought,
that's interesting, is it,
Speaker:are they not disciplined?
Are they not this?
Speaker:Or is there some sort of an
internal conflict going on
inside their psyche about
Speaker:taking those actions? And
I was puzzled by that.
Speaker:And then I would see them leave that
consulting company or management company,
Speaker:and then I would see them in
another one that I was speaking at.
Speaker:And now suddenly the same client
is flourishing and booming
Speaker:under this new consultant
and new management company.
Speaker:And I would chat with them and
I would say, what's, you know,
Speaker:you were with this other company and you
didn't take off and now you're taking
Speaker:off, what do you think the difference
is? And we narrowed it down.
Speaker:And I found out, and I already
knew some of it, I had suspicion,
Speaker:but I really narrowed
it down by interacting.
Speaker:They would say things like,
I just couldn't do what
they were asking me to do,
Speaker:it just wasn't me.
Speaker:And this was a real interesting
observation. It wasn't me.
Speaker:Not everything they asked
was a no, I couldn't do it,
Speaker:but parts of it.
Speaker:And so that would hold them back and
limit their package that they were
Speaker:presenting. So I basically found
out that it was value driven.
Speaker:And I realized that as long as somebody
asks you to do something, a coach,
Speaker:consultant asks you to do something,
Speaker:that inside your head you perceive
more drawbacks than benefits,
Speaker:more disadvantages than advantages,
and goes against what you value, or,
Speaker:you think that the repercussions of
doing it will lead you to go against
Speaker:something you value,
Speaker:you'll automatically put up a barrier
and stop and hesitate and procrastinate
Speaker:and frustrate yourself.
Speaker:Because you'll be expecting yourself
because they're your authority,
Speaker:because you inject their
values into your life,
Speaker:you think 'I should be doing this,
Speaker:but I'm not doing it.' Anytime you
hear yourself, I should, I ought to,
Speaker:I'm supposed to, I got to, I
have to, I must, need to do it,
Speaker:it's an injected value
from some authority,
Speaker:but it may not match your own top values,
and so you have internal conflicts,
Speaker:you resist. And you procrastinate,
hesitate and frustrate.
Speaker:So I found out that the individuals
that were having difficulty,
Speaker:it was going against their values.
So let me give you an example.
Speaker:I had a gentleman that said
you know, no matter what I do,
Speaker:I can't seem to get past this certain
amount in my business, my practice.
Speaker:And I said, okay,
Speaker:so what are you afraid is going to
happen if you did all of a sudden just
Speaker:doubled it? You know, just took off,
what are you afraid is going to do it?
Speaker:And he said,
Speaker:and he had in his brain an association
with another friend of his that
Speaker:doubled his practice and really grew
his practice and ended up in a divorce.
Speaker:Because the amount of effort it took to
grow the practice made it where all of a
Speaker:sudden there was clash
with a relationship.
Speaker:Now this gentleman had a higher value
on relationship and family than the
Speaker:individual that had higher
value on business that was
able to forsake the family
Speaker:for the business, and divorce. But
he had a higher value on family.
Speaker:And because of that,
he was not going to do,
Speaker:because of the associations
he made with the other client,
Speaker:the other guy that went through a divorce
when he doubled his business, he says,
Speaker:I can't take that risk.
Speaker:So he is hesitating because in his mind
he's got more drawbacks than benefits.
Speaker:So that's the reason why. And
that's why I basically have to,
Speaker:and when I'm working with people,
Speaker:I have to go through there and clear
out that baggage that's sitting there.
Speaker:Because sometimes the advice
you give them is solid advice,
Speaker:but in their mind
they've got associations,
Speaker:previous associations that are
challenging. So the question is,
Speaker:unless we either dissolve those previous
experiences and associations or revamp
Speaker:those and reassociate them,
they're going to hesitate.
Speaker:So I had a gentleman that basically
was afraid to do that and I said,
Speaker:well how could it help your marriage
if you were to double your business?
Speaker:He says, well, if I doubled
my business, my wife would,
Speaker:she's always bitching because I'm not
home enough, I'm already too busy,
Speaker:I'm already having too many
hours, if I was to double it,
Speaker:in his mind he thought if he doubled it,
it's going to take twice as much work.
Speaker:Not necessarily so.
Speaker:You could delegate more and actually have
less time in the office and have twice
Speaker:as many patients. But he wasn't thinking
of that, in his mind he just thought,
Speaker:if I double my business, I won't be
home, I'll take more effort there,
Speaker:my wife will start thing, I'll end
up in a divorce, I don't want that,
Speaker:It's not worth it, I won't do it.
Speaker:Yet he's paying money for a
consultant to give him advice.
Speaker:And the advice he's giving
him is solid advice.
Speaker:But he can't do it because
he's got that wound.
Speaker:He's got that wound watching his buddy
going through a divorce and what he went
Speaker:through and all the frustrations he went
through because he grew his practice.
Speaker:So in his mind, if I ask him,
Speaker:how specifically is growing
your practice and doubling it,
Speaker:how's he going to help your family and
relationship? And he couldn't see it.
Speaker:If he couldn't see it, he is not going
to do it. And I said, so how could it?
Speaker:And we sat down and we revamped and kind
of a Skinner operate conditioning on
Speaker:there, I did what I call
the Demartini Method,
Speaker:which is a series of questions to
help you see new associations with
Speaker:perceptions. And I basically helped
him see where the upsides were.
Speaker:Well, if he doubled his business,
Speaker:he would end up having all of a
sudden more efficient time usage.
Speaker:He would end up hiring more
people to delegate more things.
Speaker:In fact that would help him
double his business. In fact,
Speaker:we came up with strategies on how to
delegate so he would actually have freer
Speaker:time and how to prioritize what he was
doing so he would have more time to be
Speaker:with his family.
Speaker:We also then prioritized how building
that business is going to help the kids,
Speaker:because one of the highest values
on the wife's was the kids,
Speaker:how will it help the kids?
Speaker:And how is spending time with the
kids helping the business growing?
Speaker:And we made some links and anytime
two values are closer together on the
Speaker:hierarchy of values,
they enhance each other.
Speaker:Anytime they don't see the
relationship, they hinder each other.
Speaker:So I asked him that question and made
him come up with ways of doing it.
Speaker:And the moment he saw how
he could get what he wanted,
Speaker:building his business and
still keep his marriage,
Speaker:he got a tear in the eye and his
business flourished, took off,
Speaker:because he was no longer resistant to it.
Speaker:So anytime you're working with a
client, they have a hierarchy of values.
Speaker:If you don't know what the hierarchy
of values is, it's crucial to know,
Speaker:because that's going to tell them whether
they're going to take action or not on
Speaker:what you're going to recommend.
On my website, drdemartini.com,
Speaker:there's a free Value Determination
process. You're welcome to use it.
Speaker:It takes 30 minutes. You can have
the client go through that process.
Speaker:You can go through it with them.
And in the process of doing it,
Speaker:you could make sure that you really know
what their values are so when you're
Speaker:communicating with them, you're talking
in terms of their values. Remember,
Speaker:people are trying to live and
fulfill their highest values.
Speaker:If you help them in the way you put,
Speaker:the way you speak and communicate with
them in a way where they're going to get
Speaker:their highest values met, they'll take
on what you ask them to do. If you can't,
Speaker:they're going to resist it,
Speaker:because they're going to see it
interfering with what they value most.
Speaker:So you need to know what the values are.
Speaker:Then you need to practice the art
of how is their values not wrong,
Speaker:how is their values serve you? Because
if you don't see how it serves you,
Speaker:you'll talk down to them and
try to project your values
onto them and try to get
Speaker:them to live in your values
instead of honor theirs.
Speaker:It's when you communicate what you
value in terms of what they value,
Speaker:that you get the greatest compliance,
the greatest buy-in, the greatest action.
Speaker:In other words, I used to have patients
come into my office and they would say,
Speaker:well you know,
Speaker:I've had this shoulder
pain for four months,
Speaker:but you're just now coming in.
Speaker:Well there were four months you were in
pain but you didn't come in so it wasn't
Speaker:the pain that brought you
there. So I used to ask them,
Speaker:what specific high priority thing in
your life is this pain now starting to
Speaker:interfere with that's making you
decide to come in? And they said, well,
Speaker:the other day I was driving on the freeway
and I couldn't turn my neck and the
Speaker:shoulder was sore and
everything else I couldn't look,
Speaker:and I almost got rammed by
a a 24 wheeling truck and
Speaker:almost got killed.
Speaker:And I realized I better do something
about it because I can't turn my neck
Speaker:because my shoulder and neck is all tight.
Speaker:So they didn't come in
because of the pain,
Speaker:they came in because they
almost killed themselves.
Speaker:I had a woman come in and says,
Speaker:the reason I did it is because I dropped
my child because my shoulder was sore.
Speaker:So there's reasons why people do what
they do and sometimes what you assume it
Speaker:is and you project onto them what it
is, it's not really what's driving them.
Speaker:So finding out the dominant buying
motive, finding out the dominant value,
Speaker:finding out what's really
driving them is important.
Speaker:If you want to get compliance. Because
if you talk and communicate with that.
Speaker:I used to tell my clients that were into
golfing, I said, if we do what we do,
Speaker:you'll be able to be get that score
back down and you'll be able to get that
Speaker:golfing back on track. If I tell them
about their pain, they didn't listen,
Speaker:but if I talked about golf, they did.
So just know that if you communicate,
Speaker:care enough about the individual to
find out what they value most and care
Speaker:enough to communicate effectively in
what you want them to do in terms of what
Speaker:their values are, highest values,
highest values. If you do that,
Speaker:your compliance will go up.
Speaker:That's why I teach people
the Breakthrough Experience,
Speaker:because I teach them about values, I
teach them how to communicate in values,
Speaker:how to prioritize values, how
to discern values in people,
Speaker:how to effectively communicate what
you want in terms of their values.
Speaker:Because if they don't see how
they're going to win out of it,
Speaker:they're going to feel
manipulated and controlled.
Speaker:If they feel how they're
going to win out of it,
Speaker:they're going to feel cared
and loved. And it's the way.
Speaker:And that's really what you want.
Speaker:You want people to feel cared
for and loved and appreciated.
Speaker:And you do if you respect
them in their value system.
Speaker:That's why I teach the
Breakthrough Experience,
Speaker:because in the Breakthrough Experience
I teach them how to do that and I also
Speaker:teach them how to dissolve all the
emotional baggage that's causing those
Speaker:changes.
Speaker:See the wound that he saw that his
friend go through with a divorce and the
Speaker:wounds that he is gotten because of
his wife being upset because he is home
Speaker:late, those wounds are
making those decisions.
Speaker:And I have a method called the Demartini
method to dissolve those wounds so you
Speaker:have a clear, balanced perspective.
Speaker:And then you can communicate more
effectively with them and not have those
Speaker:unconscious wounds,
Speaker:those impulses and instincts that set you
off before you can even think clearly.
Speaker:And neutralize them.
Speaker:That way you can more
effectively communicate with
your clients and they'll get
Speaker:more compliance. People
want a value fulfilled.
Speaker:And by the way, when you
ask people what they value,
Speaker:I assure you I've been
doing it for 46 years, and
Speaker:the reason I developed the method
I did on the Value Determination,
Speaker:which you can get on my
website, drdemartini.com,
Speaker:is because people will tell you what
they think is valuable and it's not.
Speaker:I ask people how many want to
be financially independent?
Speaker:Everybody puts their hand up.
But less than 1% actually do it.
Speaker:So what they say they want and what they
actually want are two different things.
Speaker:So don't go by what they just say,
Speaker:go by what their life
demonstrates is important.
Speaker:That's why if you go on my website and
do the Value Determination process,
Speaker:it'll be eye-opener. If you're
a coach, this'll be gold to you,
Speaker:because you'll learn about what they are
really committed to, not what they say.
Speaker:Because what they say and what they
commit to and what their life is
Speaker:demonstrating are not always
the same, in fact, rarely are.
Speaker:Not initially at least.
Speaker:So once you find out what their values
are and once you know how to dissolve the
Speaker:emotional baggage, which
is driving those values,
Speaker:you have a powerful tool on
helping get more compliance,
Speaker:and so they're more likely to do it.
Speaker:So instead of sitting there and wondering
why they're not doing what you say,
Speaker:you have a solution.
Speaker:And that solution is caring enough about
another human being to communicate what
Speaker:you really value in
terms of what they value,
Speaker:what you really know will help them
grow their business or life or health
Speaker:and help them get what they want in life.
Speaker:But find out what it really is and then
master the art of communicating it.
Speaker:That's what I teach in the Breakthrough
Experience and also how to dissolve all
Speaker:the emotional baggage, which is driving
those values and confusing people. See,
Speaker:if you put people on a pedestal,
Speaker:you'll inject their values and
cloud the clarity of your own.
Speaker:If you put people in pit, you'll
also cloud your judgment on them.
Speaker:And those clouded states make people
say they want something when they really
Speaker:don't. And they sometimes have
fears about what they say they want.
Speaker:They have fears about
it and undermining it.
Speaker:So come to the Breakthrough Experience
where I can show you how to dissolve the
Speaker:baggage that they're carrying and also
in your own life because you may be doing
Speaker:the same thing. And also how to art,
Speaker:the art of communicating what
you value in terms of theirs.
Speaker:Your compliance will go up,
Speaker:your fulfillment in your coaching business
will go up and you'll realize that
Speaker:there's nobody out there worth a label,
Speaker:but there is somebody out there worth
serving and that person that you serve is
Speaker:most effectively served if you communicate
what you want in terms of what they
Speaker:want.