Induction is the process of finding commonalities among various cases and deriving the causes of the phenomena.
For example, “I quit Company A in six months, Company B in three months, Company C in one year, and so on. Company C also quit within a year, so Company Z will probably quit within a year.” Based on the common fact that all three companies quit within a year, the logic is to predict what will happen next.
Now, let’s consider a coaching session with a client who has this case.
Mr. S, who has already quit three companies within a year, is looking for his next company. He responds, “I will not quit this time, I will do my best. The coach introduces inductive reasoning and asks the client to think about it.
S. then asks the coach, “Does that mean I’m going to quit again?” I tell the coach anxiously.
The coach asks, “Let’s use another inductive reasoning, shall we? Think back to Mr. S’s feelings at the three companies. Why did you decide to quit, and what were the common factors?”
Then Mr. S. said,
I quit Company A because I couldn’t stand the dogmatic approach of Manager N.
I quit Company B because I got fed up with Manager Y’s way of telling me what to do and not letting me do it.
I left Company C because President M was a one-man operation.
Then, Mr. S thinks for a while.
I wanted to be entrusted with more work. I don’t like to be told what to do,” he said in a tone of voice as if he had just realized it.
And this is where the real coaching process would begin.
When we are able to recognize and calmly accept the factors behind our repetitive behavior, it motivates us to reevaluate our own behavior. In this way, we can see the possibility of bringing about a change in Mr. S., who has a bit of other-blame feelings.
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