Coaching Plain & Simple: Solution-focused Brief Coaching Essentials

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Coaching Plain & Simple: Solution-focused Brief Coaching Essentials

by: Peter Szabó, Daniel Meier & Kirsten Dierolf

This is a highly practical and condensed introduction to solution-focused coaching. The book offers a simple and clear structure for coaching sessions that is easy to learn. Content is illuminated through exemplary dialogues from real coaching sessions and bullet-point toolboxes for greater variety of choice. Narrative explanations create a helpful framework to understand the general idea of coaching and the practicalities of the solution-focused approach. Several illustrating graphs and symbols give the book an easy to read, light touch. The book targets beginners in coaching who are looking for simple guidance and step by-step ideas in their learning process.

Contents

Topics include:

• What is coaching?
• Coaching – simple, concise and effective
• Overview: Major elements of the coaching conversation
• Contracting – before you start
• Coaching agreement for the first session
• Preferred Future
• Resources and forerunners of solutions
• Small steps and clues of upcoming progress
• Session conclusion
• Follow-up sessions
• Brief coaching of executives – three examples
• Beyond technique – continuous learning as a coach
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  About the authors:  

  Peter Szabó is a professional coach specializing in brief coaching processes with executives. He is the Founder of Solutionsurfers, the largest coaching school in Switzerland, and has trained over 1,000 professional coaches from different countries. He is the author of Brief Coaching for Lasting Solutions with Insoo Kim Berg.

  Daniel Meier is a professional coach and coach trainer, and Director of Solutionsurfers.

  Kirsten Dierolf lectures and works as a solution-focused trainer and coach.

Category: Mentoring and Coaching Books Added: 27/07/2009

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