I shared a post a while ago focused on coaching alignment between coaches and not making assumptions that we’re aligned. It was a personal story where I assumed something when I should have checked in and aligned with my partner coach.
A friend and colleague of mine, Richard Khor made a nice comment to the post on LinkedIn that inspired this post/reaction. Here’s his comment…
Awesome post. Another assumption that is often missed is the direction or experiments that were done before. In other words, coming behind another coach and making the bad assumptions that what was there before was wrong.
And this resonated with me for a while. I’m embarrassed to say that I’ve often been critical of what I’ve found going into a new coaching context. I don’t personalize it and start blaming my predecessor coaches, either internal or external, but I do point out what I perceive as mistakes.