Coaching When There Are No Clear Answers

Join your host Sharon Lawton for another Coaching Conversation with [guest name], associate trainer and coach at The Coaching Academy.

How do you coach someone who wants certainty when there is no obvious answer? Whether your clients are navigating a career change, managing challenging relationships or making decisions about their future, uncertainty can leave them feeling stuck. In this warm and practical conversation, we will explore VUCA — volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity — as a helpful lens for understanding what clients may be experiencing. Together, we will consider how to help clients untangle their thinking, explore what they can influence and find a way forward, even when the whole picture is not yet clear.

In this Coaching Conversation, you will explore:
• What VUCA means in everyday coaching situations and how it can help you understand the challenges clients bring.

• Ways to help clients explore assumptions, recognise different perspectives and identify what is within their influence.

• How to stay curious when clients look to you for answers, supporting them to choose a meaningful next step without needing complete certainty.

Drawing on her experience of teaching VUCA within the conflict coaching module of our Corporate Coaching Diploma, [guest name] will help us explore how uncertainty and different interpretations can contribute to tension. Through a relatable coaching scenario, we will consider questions and approaches you can reflect on and bring into your own coaching practice.